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Thursday, May 13, 2021

4 Star Review: Bright Midnight by Karina Halle

 


A second-chance to heal their hearts
Bright Midnight by Karina Halle is now live!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky and Racing the Sun comes a wildly romantic novel about a young American abroad in Norway who runs into the man who broke her heart eight years ago.

After years of bartending her way across Europe, Shay Lavji has seen almost everything the continent has to offer, but there's one country she hasn't crossed off her bucket list yet: Norway. It's not that she doesn't want to visit the land of the midnight sun--far from it; she's obsessed with the culture and is dying to see the majestic fjords for herself.

What she's not dying to do is run into her Norwegian ex-boyfriend, Anders Johansen, who broke her heart in America eight years ago before returning to his ancestral home. The last time she saw Anders, he was a cocky, rebellious, and tortured teenager who couldn't stop himself from pushing all of her buttons--both good and bad. But Shay isn't going to let Anders stand in the way of her wanderlust, and besides, it's a big country, right?

She doesn't count on Anders seeking her out the moment he learns she's on his home turf. When Shay sees him again, she's shocked at his transformation into a bearded, tattooed farmer and fisherman who values family over everything else. Is it possible that time has tamed this former bad boy? Shay wants to believe that everything can be new and bright again under the summer sun, but she knows, when it comes to Anders, the darkness is never too far behind.


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My Review

I received an advanced copy of this book with the promise of an honest review. 

This story is told in both flashbacks and of course present tense. Shay and Anders meet when he is the new guy in school. He's foreign, mysterious and good looking. Shay is the first person Anders meets and the rest is history. 

Ahh young love. High school Shay and Anders were exactly what you'd think of two teenagers in love, but I was not a fan of high school Anders. He was an idiot who made bad choices, but adult Anders made up for it. He was older and wiser and willing to admit to his mistakes. Shay was also older and wiser and willing to look past her old feelings for Anders to make the most of the time they have now. I do wish that would have made Anders work a little harder to get back in her good graces, but them getting together felt inevitable. 

As a final thought....I've never been one to have wanderlust. Sure, I've always wanted to travel, but it's never been something I've longed to do. And maybe it's because I have been in my apartment for over a year now, but Karina's recent books have definitely ignited my travel bug. The locations in her books are basically another character and you can't help channel Liz Lemon and think "I want to go to there".






Karina Halle is a former travel writer, music journalist & screenwriter, and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling author of over 55 bestselling novels, ranging from horror and suspense to contemporary romance. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband, and her adopted pitbull Bruce, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.

Halle is represented by the Root Literary Agency and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster, Hachette & Montlake. Her work has been translated and published in 20 languages.

Hit her up on Instagram at @authorHalle, on Twitter at @MetalBlonde and on Facebook. You can also visit www.authorkarinahalle.com and sign up for the newsletter for news, excerpts, previews, private book signing sales and more.

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