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Midnight Twins #3
Watch for Me by Moonlight
Mallory and Meredith Brynn are no ordinary twins: born on either side of midnight, one has the power to see into the future, the other into the past.
But supernatural visions can’t keep Merry from falling for the new boy in town, even if the relationship is doomed from the start. The reason? Ben is a ghost. And revealing the truth about her own power would mean the end of their blossoming love.
As Merry falls for Ben, the twins sense a dark shadow encroaching on their family’s inner circle: someone wants their beloved little brother, and that someone will stop at nothing to take him away. Using their supernatural visions, the twins must come together to save their brother from harm. And along the way, they’re forced to question the loyalty of everyone in their lives, even those closest to them...
JACQUELYN MITCHARD uses her skill as a novelist to bring us a story that is truly based in family and mystery — and at the same time threatens all that we hold most dear.
But supernatural visions can’t keep Merry from falling for the new boy in town, even if the relationship is doomed from the start. The reason? Ben is a ghost. And revealing the truth about her own power would mean the end of their blossoming love.
As Merry falls for Ben, the twins sense a dark shadow encroaching on their family’s inner circle: someone wants their beloved little brother, and that someone will stop at nothing to take him away. Using their supernatural visions, the twins must come together to save their brother from harm. And along the way, they’re forced to question the loyalty of everyone in their lives, even those closest to them...
JACQUELYN MITCHARD uses her skill as a novelist to bring us a story that is truly based in family and mystery — and at the same time threatens all that we hold most dear.
283 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2010
About the author
Jacquelyn Mitchard
68 books1,270 followersJacquelyn Mitchard’s first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was named by USA Today as one of the ten most influential books of the past 25 years – second only to the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (but second by a long shot, it must be said.)
The Deep End of the Ocean was chosen as the first novel in the book club made famous by the TV host Oprah Winfrey, and transformed into a feature film produced by and starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
Most of Mitchard’s novels have been greater or lesser bestsellers – and include The Most Wanted, A Theory of Relativity, Twelve Times Blessed, The Breakdown Lane, The Good Son, and Cage of Stars. Critics have praised them for their authentic humanity and command of story. Readers identify because they see reflected, in her characters – however extreme their circumstances – emotions they already understand.
Mitchard also has written four novels for young adults.
The first, Now You See Her, from HarperTeen, is the story of a pampered, driven young actress who fakes her own abduction.
All We Know of Heaven told the story of lifetime best friends Bridget and Maureen, who are just sixteen when a fatal crash on an icy road and a poignant case of mistaken identity divide their small Minnesota town forever.
The Midnight Twins was the first in a trilogy of teen mysteries about identical twin sisters born on New Year’s Eve – one a minute before and a minute after midnight – Meredith and Mallory Brynn learn on the night they turn thirteen that their psychic abilities will force them to intervene in dire events, although one twin can see only the future and one can see only the past. The Midnight Twins is in development as a TV series by Kaleidoscope Entertainment.
Mitchard's newest novel for adult, A Very Inconvenient Scandal, out in November 2023 from Mira/HarperCollins, is the story of an acclaimed young underwater photographer whose famed marine biologist father shatters their family by marrying her best friend., a woman 35 years his junior.
At the local coffee shop, Mitchard is best-known as the mother of Rob, Dan, Marty, Francie, Mia, Will and Atticus , as the grandma of Hank and Diana and the wife of handsome Chris Brent.
Her favorite color is periwinkle blue; her favorite holiday is Halloween; her favorite flower is freesia; her favorite word is "smite," and her second favorite is "Massachusetts"; her lucky number is 119 (anyone who can guess where that comes from wins free first editions of her novels for life). She lives in her favorite place on earth, Cape Cod, summering in a villa on the Amalfi Coast. (Guess which part of that sentence is fiction.)
Her essays have appeared in publications including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine and Reader's Digest, and are widely anthologized and used in school curricula. She has taught in MFA programs in Vermont, Ohio, and Massachusetts, and is part of the faculty at the Summer Writers Institute at Yale University. She is a member of the Tall Poppies Writers and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Ragdale Foundation.
Her pet peeves are known authors and editors who cannot and will not learn the difference between “lie” and “lay” and family signs pluralized with apostrophes.
She would love to appear on just ONE episode of any incarnation of ‘Law and Order,’ as has everyone else in America. She still is willing to play the role of a murder victim – except one found by earth-moving equipment in a landfill – though she would do that in a pinch.
Mitchard would like to have a swimming pool, because, although she lives near the ocean, she is afraid of the dark water and hates sand. She would love to have a clawfoot tub, or any tub.
She believes that stories are the ways that human beings make sense of life and that our stories will save us.
The Deep End of the Ocean was chosen as the first novel in the book club made famous by the TV host Oprah Winfrey, and transformed into a feature film produced by and starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
Most of Mitchard’s novels have been greater or lesser bestsellers – and include The Most Wanted, A Theory of Relativity, Twelve Times Blessed, The Breakdown Lane, The Good Son, and Cage of Stars. Critics have praised them for their authentic humanity and command of story. Readers identify because they see reflected, in her characters – however extreme their circumstances – emotions they already understand.
Mitchard also has written four novels for young adults.
The first, Now You See Her, from HarperTeen, is the story of a pampered, driven young actress who fakes her own abduction.
All We Know of Heaven told the story of lifetime best friends Bridget and Maureen, who are just sixteen when a fatal crash on an icy road and a poignant case of mistaken identity divide their small Minnesota town forever.
The Midnight Twins was the first in a trilogy of teen mysteries about identical twin sisters born on New Year’s Eve – one a minute before and a minute after midnight – Meredith and Mallory Brynn learn on the night they turn thirteen that their psychic abilities will force them to intervene in dire events, although one twin can see only the future and one can see only the past. The Midnight Twins is in development as a TV series by Kaleidoscope Entertainment.
Mitchard's newest novel for adult, A Very Inconvenient Scandal, out in November 2023 from Mira/HarperCollins, is the story of an acclaimed young underwater photographer whose famed marine biologist father shatters their family by marrying her best friend., a woman 35 years his junior.
At the local coffee shop, Mitchard is best-known as the mother of Rob, Dan, Marty, Francie, Mia, Will and Atticus , as the grandma of Hank and Diana and the wife of handsome Chris Brent.
Her favorite color is periwinkle blue; her favorite holiday is Halloween; her favorite flower is freesia; her favorite word is "smite," and her second favorite is "Massachusetts"; her lucky number is 119 (anyone who can guess where that comes from wins free first editions of her novels for life). She lives in her favorite place on earth, Cape Cod, summering in a villa on the Amalfi Coast. (Guess which part of that sentence is fiction.)
Her essays have appeared in publications including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine and Reader's Digest, and are widely anthologized and used in school curricula. She has taught in MFA programs in Vermont, Ohio, and Massachusetts, and is part of the faculty at the Summer Writers Institute at Yale University. She is a member of the Tall Poppies Writers and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Ragdale Foundation.
Her pet peeves are known authors and editors who cannot and will not learn the difference between “lie” and “lay” and family signs pluralized with apostrophes.
She would love to appear on just ONE episode of any incarnation of ‘Law and Order,’ as has everyone else in America. She still is willing to play the role of a murder victim – except one found by earth-moving equipment in a landfill – though she would do that in a pinch.
Mitchard would like to have a swimming pool, because, although she lives near the ocean, she is afraid of the dark water and hates sand. She would love to have a clawfoot tub, or any tub.
She believes that stories are the ways that human beings make sense of life and that our stories will save us.
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March 23, 2011
At least as bad as the second in the trilogy, but laughably so (again, what IS the literary equivalent term for a camp movie??). Mitchard cannot write dialog that flows - every few sentences, I'd stumble over something that totally threw me out of the reading just to figure out what the heck she meant. Characters are forever having mood swings mid-sentence, and the twins sound exactly alike when speaking (considering how much is made of their different personalities and mirror-twin-differences, this isn't a small thing). And a LOT of the novel is dialog.
Even the adults, at the rare times they show up, talk in that "it's so nice to see you, have a seat, I HATE YOU HATE YOU YOU STINK would you like some tea?" mood swingy way.
Even when not stumbling through the dialog, I really wondered at times if the middle of some sentences were accidentally erased and just no one noticed or cared enough to try to put them back together.
Any decent book about the intersection of the supernatural with human characters will have at least a FEW moments where someone says "no way, that can't happen!" or at least have serious doubts. It helps the reader suspend their own disbelief. Yet, no one blinked a single eye over the lead character falling in love with someone no one else could see. I mean, they went to movies together and no one thought it was odd she paid for two tickets?? (Just one example.) Having discovered she's talking about a cute boy no one else can see, her friends... do absolutely nothing and never mention it again.
I will give it this - the resolution at the end, telling much of each of the characters futures, flowed nicely. Or maybe I was just so relieved it was over, anything sounded good!
Even the adults, at the rare times they show up, talk in that "it's so nice to see you, have a seat, I HATE YOU HATE YOU YOU STINK would you like some tea?" mood swingy way.
Even when not stumbling through the dialog, I really wondered at times if the middle of some sentences were accidentally erased and just no one noticed or cared enough to try to put them back together.
Any decent book about the intersection of the supernatural with human characters will have at least a FEW moments where someone says "no way, that can't happen!" or at least have serious doubts. It helps the reader suspend their own disbelief. Yet, no one blinked a single eye over the lead character falling in love with someone no one else could see. I mean, they went to movies together and no one thought it was odd she paid for two tickets?? (Just one example.) Having discovered she's talking about a cute boy no one else can see, her friends... do absolutely nothing and never mention it again.
I will give it this - the resolution at the end, telling much of each of the characters futures, flowed nicely. Or maybe I was just so relieved it was over, anything sounded good!
September 29, 2011
i adore the book as well as the characters but in the end the author ends the book with information that is kind of sad because she puts characters together that have never been interested in each other together and those who seem should be together are not an little information is given about them. but over all it was a great series
May 11, 2017
I have never read Jacquelyn Mitchard before, even though I know several people who love her books. If this book is an example of her writing, I can't understand why anyone would be so enthralled. The story sounded like it would be right up my alley, but the execution of the plot was terrible. Circular conversations between characters that simply repeated phrases without advancing the plot, long run-on sentences with numerous comma splices, and contrived behavior from characters that seemed so unrealistic were just some of the problems. The "twin language" the twins used felt gratuitous, too. It was a good idea, but Mitchard is no linguist--the twins' secret language just seemed like random gibberish phrases with no relation to each other.
I should add that I listened to the unabridged audiobook. The reader was good, but she couldn't overcome the relentless inanity of the story. I will not be in a rush to read another Mitchard book.
I should add that I listened to the unabridged audiobook. The reader was good, but she couldn't overcome the relentless inanity of the story. I will not be in a rush to read another Mitchard book.
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July 6, 2020The only thing I have to complain about is who ends up with Drew...
February 12, 2025
It was an ok book, had a hard time staying with it.
July 26, 2026
The best of the trilogy.
December 10, 2011
To be honest, I found this book kind of... disappointing, boring, dull, annoying... I don't know. I read the first two Midnight Twins books in the spring, and I know that they weren't fantastic, but I don't remember being ANNOYED by them.
There are two reasons mainly that I disliked this book, and they are the same two reasons that I usually have for disliking a book: a) the writing style, and b) the romance.
a)Sometimes I don't like a narrative style and I can't really explain why. I know that this writing style seemed really sporadic and not thought through. There are a lot of dialogue sequences where the characters seem to be having separate conversations, but still trying to talk to each other--that probably makes no sense. And maybe it's purposeful, I don't know. All I know is that I found it incredibly distracting. Also there were a lot a lame-sounding/cliché sentences in the narrative.
The other thing with regards to writing/format is that the book took too long to end. The wrapping-up took place in the third last chapter, and then for the last two chapters I just kept flipping forward to check how much there was left, thinking, "Another chapter? Really?" Somehow I don't think that should happen when you're reading.
b)So everyone who's read my reviews knows that I don't like romance unless it is a minor sideline of the story, and sometimes not even then. So why did I pick this book up when the title, let alone the synopsis, screams "ROMANCE!! <3<3<3"? Honestly, I picked it up because my library didn't have any of the other books I KNEW I wanted to read, and I was in too much of a hurry to look for something good, so I picked this up because I had read the first two and I figured I'd give it a chance.
I wouldn't have minded the book actually if the romance was cut out of it. It's just.. even that has probably been used a million times before: Girl falls in love with ghost, has to decide between life and death, etc. The other events in the story, which I found much more interesting, were kind of like a side plot. But I think this book just had a lot less plot in general than the first two did.
I'm not going to tell people NOT to read this book, like I do with Twilight (just kidding, I don't actually tell people not to read Twilight, but I rejoice when I hear people say they don't like it). You can read it if you want--hey, maybe you like romance, and maybe the writing style won't bother you. Maybe I'm just really picky with what kind of books I like, who knows. So look at this review as purely my opinion (all my reviews are purely opinion... wow I'm not really making sense today).
I realized a few minutes ago, I think one of the things I liked the least about this book was that, combined, a) and b) caused me to get distracted enough that I couldn't get lost in the story at all. I absolutely LOVE when books can carry me out of reality for pages at a time--I don't think that happened even once with this book. So that's my petty complaint: "This book isn't captivating enough!" And with that... I think I'm done.
Sorry for being so critical (okay, not really, I kind of like being critical of books I don't like), and hopefully the next book I read will inspire a much more inspiring review. Yes I know I just used the same word twice in one sentence. It's amusing. Okay I'm actually done now. :P
There are two reasons mainly that I disliked this book, and they are the same two reasons that I usually have for disliking a book: a) the writing style, and b) the romance.
a)Sometimes I don't like a narrative style and I can't really explain why. I know that this writing style seemed really sporadic and not thought through. There are a lot of dialogue sequences where the characters seem to be having separate conversations, but still trying to talk to each other--that probably makes no sense. And maybe it's purposeful, I don't know. All I know is that I found it incredibly distracting. Also there were a lot a lame-sounding/cliché sentences in the narrative.
The other thing with regards to writing/format is that the book took too long to end. The wrapping-up took place in the third last chapter, and then for the last two chapters I just kept flipping forward to check how much there was left, thinking, "Another chapter? Really?" Somehow I don't think that should happen when you're reading.
b)So everyone who's read my reviews knows that I don't like romance unless it is a minor sideline of the story, and sometimes not even then. So why did I pick this book up when the title, let alone the synopsis, screams "ROMANCE!! <3<3<3"? Honestly, I picked it up because my library didn't have any of the other books I KNEW I wanted to read, and I was in too much of a hurry to look for something good, so I picked this up because I had read the first two and I figured I'd give it a chance.
I wouldn't have minded the book actually if the romance was cut out of it. It's just.. even that has probably been used a million times before: Girl falls in love with ghost, has to decide between life and death, etc. The other events in the story, which I found much more interesting, were kind of like a side plot. But I think this book just had a lot less plot in general than the first two did.
I'm not going to tell people NOT to read this book, like I do with Twilight (just kidding, I don't actually tell people not to read Twilight, but I rejoice when I hear people say they don't like it). You can read it if you want--hey, maybe you like romance, and maybe the writing style won't bother you. Maybe I'm just really picky with what kind of books I like, who knows. So look at this review as purely my opinion (all my reviews are purely opinion... wow I'm not really making sense today).
I realized a few minutes ago, I think one of the things I liked the least about this book was that, combined, a) and b) caused me to get distracted enough that I couldn't get lost in the story at all. I absolutely LOVE when books can carry me out of reality for pages at a time--I don't think that happened even once with this book. So that's my petty complaint: "This book isn't captivating enough!" And with that... I think I'm done.
Sorry for being so critical (okay, not really, I kind of like being critical of books I don't like), and hopefully the next book I read will inspire a much more inspiring review. Yes I know I just used the same word twice in one sentence. It's amusing. Okay I'm actually done now. :P
June 22, 2021
In the third and final installment of the Midnight Twins trilogy, Jacquelyn Mitchard's has created another winning story. With an mix of suspense and heartfelt emotions Watch for Me by Moonlight will have readers yearning for more as Mitchard pulls at their heartstrings.
With two heart-pounding mysteries behind them, and a new baby brother in the house, all Mallory and Meredith Brynn want is a break from their "special gifts". All things aside, all that's destined for them is anything but normal. Merry keeps on seeing an unfamiliar face around town, and a handsome boy at that. When they finally meet face to face, Meredith is instantly in love with Ben, a sweet, soft spoken boy who has just come home after a long while away. But here's the question, how long? After struggling to handle the truth, Merry must realize that Ben is actually a ghost that died over 40 years ago. Merry must learn how to deal with a relationship that was never meant to be. Meanwhile, something is up within the Brynn household. With the baby's health declining for no apparent reason, and several suspects in line, Mally must figure out what (and who) is hurting her baby brother before an accident beyond reversal occurs.
This book was great! It pulled at my heartstrings, and had me tied up with suspense throughout the entire novel. Fans of the first two Midnight Twins books will love the last book in an amazung trilogy.
With two heart-pounding mysteries behind them, and a new baby brother in the house, all Mallory and Meredith Brynn want is a break from their "special gifts". All things aside, all that's destined for them is anything but normal. Merry keeps on seeing an unfamiliar face around town, and a handsome boy at that. When they finally meet face to face, Meredith is instantly in love with Ben, a sweet, soft spoken boy who has just come home after a long while away. But here's the question, how long? After struggling to handle the truth, Merry must realize that Ben is actually a ghost that died over 40 years ago. Merry must learn how to deal with a relationship that was never meant to be. Meanwhile, something is up within the Brynn household. With the baby's health declining for no apparent reason, and several suspects in line, Mally must figure out what (and who) is hurting her baby brother before an accident beyond reversal occurs.
This book was great! It pulled at my heartstrings, and had me tied up with suspense throughout the entire novel. Fans of the first two Midnight Twins books will love the last book in an amazung trilogy.
August 23, 2013
This series has a great concept but this book, #3 of the trilogy, was so agonizingly s-l-o-w. Also, there are multiple typos and also mistakes in the content of the story itself. I also could never remember which twin was which and had to keep flipping back to remember what we were talking about. The story concept: Meredith and Mallory, the identical "Midnight Twins", were born on either side of midnight in different years. Also, common in the Brynn family, is the fact that the girls in each generation are somewhat psychic. In the case of Merry and Mally, the one born before midnight can see flashes of things that happened in the past and the one born after midnight can see flashes of the future.
In this book, Merry meets a new boy but no one else seems to ever see him. She falls deeply in love with him, only to learn that he is a ghost. Also, their baby brother, who was sometimes described as a young infant still drinking formula and sometimes described as old enough to wave and do other things that a toddler would do, gets sick and the girls with their psychic abilities can see that someone is making him sick. Which of his many babysitters is it? Another thing that I didn't like was that the author got philosophical at the end and then told the reader what would happen to the family in the future.
I would only read the first two books in this series if I found them very cheap at a used bookstore.
In this book, Merry meets a new boy but no one else seems to ever see him. She falls deeply in love with him, only to learn that he is a ghost. Also, their baby brother, who was sometimes described as a young infant still drinking formula and sometimes described as old enough to wave and do other things that a toddler would do, gets sick and the girls with their psychic abilities can see that someone is making him sick. Which of his many babysitters is it? Another thing that I didn't like was that the author got philosophical at the end and then told the reader what would happen to the family in the future.
I would only read the first two books in this series if I found them very cheap at a used bookstore.
July 17, 2011
Only for fans of the series. The book is very poorly edited, with the wrong names in places and a number of sentences that no longer make sense. Also, the twins' visions seem to further the plot rather than have any use. The story mentions that the visions have helped the twins stop bad things from happening, which is mostly true. Then again, you have one vision that simply exists as a red herring, which seems pretty foolish. I also didn't much like Grandma and the omniscient narrator seeing 35 years into the future to tell us who the twins would marry, etc. The premise was intriguing and the story is fine, but it suffers from plot issues and editing. Not a complete waste of time, but there are plenty of better things to read.
May 11, 2011
nice ending. sometimes got confused reading.
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March 18, 2011I'm just happy it's finally over...
April 2, 2011
It was a good book with a different endig that I would have expected.
August 13, 2011
Excellent story
July 30, 2011
I dont get is AT ALL? Some1 has 2 explain it 2 mi
August 10, 2012
I really enjoyed all of the YA titles in this series.
July 20, 2014
"A pool of moonlight centered on the floor between the beds like a gigantic coin. Slowly, she got out of bed to creep downstairs for something to eat and try to think." Jacquelyn Mitchard
December 31, 2014
I have to say it was a bit slow for me in the beginning but once I started hitting higher numbered pages it started to peak my interest more an more until I noticed that the book was over!
January 31, 2016
This one surprised me a bit. It was a great way to sum up the series, and the plot was very...... interesting.
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