Book Review: 100 Days of Sunlight
100 Days of Sunlight
by Abbie Emmons
Blurb: 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.
Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. But when her grandparents place an ad in the local newspaper looking for a typist to help Tessa continue writing and blogging, an unlikely answer knocks at their door: Weston Ludovico, a boy her age with bright eyes, an optimistic smile…and no legs.
Knowing how angry and afraid Tessa is feeling, Weston thinks he can help her. But he has one condition — no one can tell Tessa about his disability. And because she can’t see him, she treats him with contempt: screaming at him to get out of her house and never come back. But for Weston, it’s the most amazing feeling: to be treated like a normal person, not just a sob story. So he comes back. Again and again and again.
Tessa spurns Weston’s “obnoxious optimism”, convinced that he has no idea what she’s going through. But Weston knows exactly how she feels and reaches into her darkness to show her that there is more than one way to experience the world. As Tessa grows closer to Weston, she finds it harder and harder to imagine life without him — and Weston can’t imagine life without her. But he still hasn’t told her the truth, and when Tessa’s sight returns he’ll have to make the hardest decision of his life: vanish from Tessa’s world…or overcome his fear of being seen.
Cover Review: I love this cover so much, and I think it's super cool Abbie design it herself. It perfectly encapsulates the book, with its sunny color and all the little doodles. Looking at it makes me happy.
Plot: This is a story of healing, of getting back up when life knocks you down. It was a fast paced read, without being a fast paced story. I binged through most of it in one day, that's how good it was. I had to keep reading, to know what was going to happen with Weston and Tessa. My only sadness was that it felt too short, like I would have liked another hundred pages.
Characters: Tessa- a girl with temporary blindness from a car accident. She could be super mean, but you still understood why. She's scared of the world and opening up to others.
Weston- he was my favorite of the two. He was so optimistic and it's super cool to see an amputee in fiction. I also loved his brothers and the way he wanted them to look up to him. His strength and resilience astounded me.
World: This is a small town romance kind of book, which I love. It also was great because I read it in a small town on vacation, so I could really get into the setting.
Rating: 5 stars
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