100 Days of Sunlight

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By the end it felt like 90% of the side characters were only present to coax Weston and Tessa together or to try and convince Tessa to go back to church. And you’d think that after the stunts he had pulled to get him into this situation in the first place, it would come up! We hardly learned their names, but they insisted that Weston and Tessa were meant to be, and that they “shipped it”.

Weston KNOWING that Tessa's grandparents had retracted their ad for someone to help her and that they weren't looking for a boy, anyway, but stealing their address and just showing up is creepy. I mean yes – Weston’s family and friends aren’t Christians and yes, that’s just real life there – but I didn’t need quite that much of it, if you know what I mean. He's a fighter with a smile that lights up any darkness, and he's filled with more hope and optimism than one would ever think possible.I'm very much of the opinion that someone doesn't have to ask every single time if it's okay to kiss someone else. Encompassing what it means to be alive and whole, this novel will knock the socks off your feet (some pun intended) and sweep you into a world where giving up is not an option.

At first, I thought the cover was beautiful, but after reading it I was like, “And those are the waffles, and there’s her laptop, and that’s the polaroid camera, and ASFDKASLKDFJ; THAT’S THE YELLOW UKELELE!

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I didn't connect with Tessa at all, and I'm sure that's part of the reason the book fell so flat for me. It’s one of my favorite books, and I love how we follow the journey that Jessica takes after she loses her leg. I have about three other cons I wanted to include (limited diversity and weakly developed POC being a big one), but this is my longest review to date and I’m a little tired of ranting.We got to know her bedroom and her aesthetic more than we got to know her as a person, and that just rubs me the wrong way. I guess what I mean is that it felt like the repetition was intended to be a stylistic choice, but it felt more like it was making a mockery of what it feels like to have PTSD and experience trauma.

I mean, the guy makes waffles and plays a yellow ukulele while trying to help the heroine see the brighter side of life. Let’s talk about Weston, AKA the only reason I’m giving this book a two star rating instead of a one star—probably the only reason I finished it. One moment she was portrayed as a bright young poet dreaming of sunshine and then next she was lashing out at her caring, patient grandparents and proclaiming that no one could possibly help her. And every little adorable artwork has something significant to do with the story, and you appreciate it so much more after reading the book!When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down. This follows a dancer who loses her leg, and her recovery process as she falls in love with a former addict. There were so many ways this could have been done better to properly depict what it feels like to live with trauma and have flashbacks. To top the rest of it off, this book feels like it belongs in the religious fiction section of Barnes and Noble.