100 Days of Sunlight - Abbie Emmons.
Author: Abbie Emmons
Publisher: Abbie Emmons
Publication date: August 7, 2019
326 Pages
5/5 Stars
Synopsis:
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.
Review
I really loved this book! It was definitely a 5 star read for me!
I forget where I first saw this story, but I believe it was just an ad online. The synopsis caught my attention (even while I feel like it gives too much of the story away), and I really wanted to read it.
It's such an uplifting story! And when the world around us is cruel and unkind, I believe we need more stories like this one. One that brings sunlight into the reader's world.
This story deals with depression that comes from a traumatic event, and how even when you've gone through something traumatic yourself, you can still raise above that sadness. How your disability does not define you. You can find the strength to move forward, and you can use your empathy to help others going through something similar.
I loved how it went back and forth from Tessa and Weston's point of view, and how the story line jumped back and forth as well. The characters (and their families) are so endearing, and you just wish you got to see more into their lives.
I've read some reviews where people complain that there was language in this book (oh no! Haha!), and how YA books always have teen romance. Well, I hate to break these people's high and mighty bubbles, but teens do fall in love, and they do sometimes cuss. I feel like these people have forgotten what it's like to be a teenager with all the intense feelings that come with that time in your life. Remember your first crush? Remember feeling so upset that you cuss? Remember feeling overwhelmed by things and just wanting to give up? Yeah, me too. I think this book does an amazing job capturing those emotions.
I highly recommend this book, and cannot wait to see what Abbie writes next!
"Besides, no one has ever seen the light by being told there are darker places out there."
"There's nothing you can't do!"
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