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A review by kylieenicole
99 Days by Katie Cotugno
4.0
*KIND OF SPOILERY*
THINGS I LIKED:
-i'm a sucker for a brother love triangle and love triangles in general, so i knew i would like this book.
-thought that the entire idea was actually really creative. loved that all this drama came to light because her mom wrote a book about it. such a good idea.
-molly didn't actually bother me as much as i thought she would. reading the reviews, people ripped her apart but i didn't mind her.
-all the characters were realistic. it was easy to imagine what they were like in real life and how they said certain things.
-since it was organized by day, it went by pretty fast. some days were just a paragraph, some a sentence, and some pages long. it was easy to read and the short chapters kept me engaged. towards the end i couldn't stop reading.
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE:
-HATED the ending. HATED the "realization" that molly had at the end; it was kind of unnecessary. point of the book is the double standard, how molly was destroyed because of what she did and gabe got off easy. by having her "remember" a memory from a while ago and that's why she sticks up for herself, it felt to me like it erased the main the idea of the book. there shouldn't have had to been some whole thing she remembered that made her want to confront them in my opinion.
-thought all the bullying was kind of unrealistic. i get that it's all on a larger scale because of the best-selling book, but keying someones car crossed a line into unrealistic territory.
THINGS I LIKED:
-i'm a sucker for a brother love triangle and love triangles in general, so i knew i would like this book.
-thought that the entire idea was actually really creative. loved that all this drama came to light because her mom wrote a book about it. such a good idea.
-molly didn't actually bother me as much as i thought she would. reading the reviews, people ripped her apart but i didn't mind her.
-all the characters were realistic. it was easy to imagine what they were like in real life and how they said certain things.
-since it was organized by day, it went by pretty fast. some days were just a paragraph, some a sentence, and some pages long. it was easy to read and the short chapters kept me engaged. towards the end i couldn't stop reading.
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE:
-HATED the ending. HATED the "realization" that molly had at the end; it was kind of unnecessary. point of the book is the double standard, how molly was destroyed because of what she did and gabe got off easy. by having her "remember" a memory from a while ago and that's why she sticks up for herself, it felt to me like it erased the main the idea of the book. there shouldn't have had to been some whole thing she remembered that made her want to confront them in my opinion.
-thought all the bullying was kind of unrealistic. i get that it's all on a larger scale because of the best-selling book, but keying someones car crossed a line into unrealistic territory.