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A review by leafblade
Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
3.0
okay what the fuck, I'll write the review and maybe change the rating tomorrow
OKAY SO, REVIEWING THIS RN
First of all, it wasn't what I thought it would be. I was thinking of a The kiss of deception (which I haven't read) situation, but it definitely wasn't. The hero/villain/liar dynamic was confusing in a bad way, kind of useless and ultimately stupid. It was a way to try to make the story more interesting than it really was.
Which leads me to: this book really tried to be deep. Like, it has the spooky cover thing going on which made me thing it was magical realism (IT'S A CONTEMPORARY DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I MADE), it had weird names, a weird redhead, a lot of fairy tales references. But it just..... was another teenage mystery, you know? And with three stereotypical main characters (slutty popular blonde, superstitious wild infantilized ginger, broken family quiet boy, all in a love triangle), which didn't help at all.
Let me take a second to say I was so fucking disappointed this wasn't paranormal / magical realism, thanks. I'll go on.
Nothing but how it let me down is rememberable about this book. It's just average, advertised as this huge, scary, treacherous story. Which it isn't. It isn't that deep, it isn't that scary, you stop caring about the hero/villain/liar thing bc it's boring. The main character was supposed to be TORN between THESE TWO GIRLS HE LIKES but they just..... move him around???? Like he's a couch and they're like oh yeah well come with me, and he goes. And the other one's like well you have to come here with me now, and he just shrugs and goes. And. Idk he's dumb.
ALSO there's like literal rape here????? The boy gets raped. He doesn't want to have sex with one of the girls but he has to bc she wants to. And I'm pretty sure the same girl assaults him a few times too. But the book itself brushes it off as a "oh she's ambitious, typical popular girls" and honestly, what the fuck. No, wait, in all caps. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!
OKAY SO, REVIEWING THIS RN
First of all, it wasn't what I thought it would be. I was thinking of a The kiss of deception (which I haven't read) situation, but it definitely wasn't. The hero/villain/liar dynamic was confusing in a bad way, kind of useless and ultimately stupid. It was a way to try to make the story more interesting than it really was.
Which leads me to: this book really tried to be deep. Like, it has the spooky cover thing going on which made me thing it was magical realism (IT'S A CONTEMPORARY DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I MADE), it had weird names, a weird redhead, a lot of fairy tales references. But it just..... was another teenage mystery, you know? And with three stereotypical main characters (slutty popular blonde, superstitious wild infantilized ginger, broken family quiet boy, all in a love triangle), which didn't help at all.
Let me take a second to say I was so fucking disappointed this wasn't paranormal / magical realism, thanks. I'll go on.
Nothing but how it let me down is rememberable about this book. It's just average, advertised as this huge, scary, treacherous story. Which it isn't. It isn't that deep, it isn't that scary, you stop caring about the hero/villain/liar thing bc it's boring. The main character was supposed to be TORN between THESE TWO GIRLS HE LIKES but they just..... move him around???? Like he's a couch and they're like oh yeah well come with me, and he goes. And the other one's like well you have to come here with me now, and he just shrugs and goes. And. Idk he's dumb.
ALSO there's like literal rape here????? The boy gets raped. He doesn't want to have sex with one of the girls but he has to bc she wants to. And I'm pretty sure the same girl assaults him a few times too. But the book itself brushes it off as a "oh she's ambitious, typical popular girls" and honestly, what the fuck. No, wait, in all caps. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!