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99 Days
by Katie Cotugno
This book is kind of the embodiment of a train wreck that you can sometimes look away from. The main character Molly isn't that likeable for multiple reasons. The most prominent one being that she constantly makes stupid choices, that she shouldn't be. She lost everything because she slept with her boyfriends brother, and what does she do when she comes back to town? The same exact thing but with the other brother, after regaining the trust of her old best friend. What am I supposed to like about Molly besides the fact that I think it was terrible of her mother to turn her life's mistake and drama into a book. So by extension of me not liking Molly or understanding her choices my enjoyment of the book varied down a lot throughout the story. If you like drama(which I do) it's nice, but at a point what else does the book have to offer?
The books overarching or maybe just it's last message that it wants the reader to remember is that there's a blatant double standard between how Molly is treated for what she did, and how the brothers are. Molly is slut shamed and degraded while the brothers are mostly unscathed. But what did the author actually do to show the readers that this is the message that she wanted us to have throughout the book? Nothing! I think the book would have had more substance if the story actually worked into Molly's resentment of the sexist double standard. That she had inner monologues to herself whenever she was ragged on by the town. But there wasn't, there was just horny teenagers and bad decisions back to back. That's essentially this entire book.
In fact now looking back at the book, how has Molly actually changed from start to finish? That she's no longer going to take the slut shaming? Okay, but what did the story actually show about her change. Because we're told what she did before the story started, and then we got her doing the exact same thing. So where's the change , the character development? one line at the end of the book about sexist double standards doesn't signify character growth or change.
While there are some points where I did enjoy the taboo drama of it all and occasionally found the story entertaining, I just wish there was more substance to the entire plot and message it was trying to portray.
The books overarching or maybe just it's last message that it wants the reader to remember is that there's a blatant double standard between how Molly is treated for what she did, and how the brothers are. Molly is slut shamed and degraded while the brothers are mostly unscathed. But what did the author actually do to show the readers that this is the message that she wanted us to have throughout the book? Nothing! I think the book would have had more substance if the story actually worked into Molly's resentment of the sexist double standard. That she had inner monologues to herself whenever she was ragged on by the town. But there wasn't, there was just horny teenagers and bad decisions back to back. That's essentially this entire book.
In fact now looking back at the book, how has Molly actually changed from start to finish? That she's no longer going to take the slut shaming? Okay, but what did the story actually show about her change. Because we're told what she did before the story started, and then we got her doing the exact same thing. So where's the change , the character development? one line at the end of the book about sexist double standards doesn't signify character growth or change.
While there are some points where I did enjoy the taboo drama of it all and occasionally found the story entertaining, I just wish there was more substance to the entire plot and message it was trying to portray.