100 Days of Sunlight

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He gets what Tessa is going through even when she feels like no one does, and thinks that he can help her.

Were it not for the alternative POV and Weston sharing his backstory in flashbacks, we would've had a Manic Pixie Dream Boy on our hands.I've never been willing to sacrifice or adjust my reviews because someone is a famous author or because they have a following, and I'm not going to do that with Abbie's book either. I know that making sure that those situations are accurately represented is super super important, and I was so impressed with how it was all written. You understand why she's lashing out even when it's not pretty, and you just want her to get back up on her feet again.

If you love contemporary YA, teen romance, deep storylines, witty characters, and WAFFLES, definitely check out 100 Days of Sunlight! Okay, so looking at this cover and the description, you might think it's a simple, fluffy, contemporary romance. 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!When Tessa's grandparents place an ad for someone to come and help Tessa maintain her poetry blog while she is without her sight, amputee Weston decides that he just might be the right person for the job. There are a couple of disability groups that do prefer person first language (people with Down syndrome, and intellectual disability) but majority, subscribe to the social model of disability and prefer identity first language, which this book advocates against. There was nothing about this first chapter that made me like or want to connect with Tessa and throughout the rest of the book I also felt like it was lacking in depicting her emotions and making me feel like I'm inside her head and I get her.

And for some reason, I kept picturing his character as Joshua Basset (except with no legs) the whole time. Having scrolled through other people’s reviews, it seems like this book is targeted for a Christian girl aged 16 – 19 who likes squeaky clean novels. Telling a blind person they're like Daredevil is the fastest way to make them uncomfortable around you. For that matter, making Weston sit in the bottom of the tub to take a shower just seemed like an opportunity to show him feeling pathetic. I'm talking about things like her overly nasty attitude at the beginning, her mother (that could've been interesting to work into her character development, but it seemed more like an effort to make her family seem unconventional), and her strange comments about holding Weston's hand being "inappropriate" (I know this is a sweet little YA novel, but.What followed were a series of just idiotic actions meant to show that Weston wasn’t letting his disability stop him. Honestly I can completely agree with everything you said in this post, especially the content part because yeah? Oh, how I wish for the day when a YA contemporary novel as adorable as this one will be published without all the romance!