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A review by lovelykd
100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons
3.0
While I am outside the age range of this book's target audience, I have always enjoyed reading YA stories--especially when it includes characters who are flawed, or challenged, in ways some of us will never experience. Such voices are important to the YA canon and give a depth to the genre that can be appreciated at any age.
That said, I enjoyed reading the love story between Tessa and Weston.
Tessa is temporarily blind--after a horrific car accident--Weston lost his legs due to poor youthful decision-making. Kismet brings the two together, and love eventually blooms, but Weston isn't confident that a sighted Tessa will think him enough, once she knows the truth of his disability.
Make no mistake, this is written as a feel-good story. Tessa and Weston face personal challenges but neither is so broken as to make the reader feel uncertain they'll recover. Their coupling is more about two people making a spiritual journey, together, and finding common ground in the faith they begin to have in each other's ability to fill in the missing pieces.
The only questionable relationship is the one which exists between Weston and Rudy: I didn't think it was necessary to have them coming to blows--literally--as a way of establishing some semblance of a brotherhood. Especially since it was so clear how loving and wonderful Weston is to his brothers.
Also, with technology being as prevalent as it is today, it was sometimes hard to understand why Tessa wouldn't use her phone to dictate the poems she could no longer write--why bother with a notebook at all?
That was curious to me.
Overall, I enjoyed the story and I'm sure others will as well.
*Thank you to NetGalley and Abbie Emmons for this advanced eGalley. Opinions were not influenced by early receipt of the author's work
That said, I enjoyed reading the love story between Tessa and Weston.
Tessa is temporarily blind--after a horrific car accident--Weston lost his legs due to poor youthful decision-making. Kismet brings the two together, and love eventually blooms, but Weston isn't confident that a sighted Tessa will think him enough, once she knows the truth of his disability.
Make no mistake, this is written as a feel-good story. Tessa and Weston face personal challenges but neither is so broken as to make the reader feel uncertain they'll recover. Their coupling is more about two people making a spiritual journey, together, and finding common ground in the faith they begin to have in each other's ability to fill in the missing pieces.
The only questionable relationship is the one which exists between Weston and Rudy: I didn't think it was necessary to have them coming to blows--literally--as a way of establishing some semblance of a brotherhood. Especially since it was so clear how loving and wonderful Weston is to his brothers.
Also, with technology being as prevalent as it is today, it was sometimes hard to understand why Tessa wouldn't use her phone to dictate the poems she could no longer write--why bother with a notebook at all?
That was curious to me.
Overall, I enjoyed the story and I'm sure others will as well.
*Thank you to NetGalley and Abbie Emmons for this advanced eGalley. Opinions were not influenced by early receipt of the author's work