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Friday, July 8, 2016

Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke / Audiobook Review



By: April Genevieve Tucholke
Published by: Dial Books
Audio Book: Listening Library
Released on: march 22, 2016
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Rating: 4 stars - I liked it
Source: purchased

Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.

What really happened?
Someone knows.
Someone is lying.
 



I loved last summer's e. lockhart story, We Were Liars, and Wink Poppy Midnight has that same feel. Hellooooooo, unreliable narrators!

Now I will admit that this book is not for everyone, but for me it hit all the right notes in characters, plot and timing. I just fell into the magical realism of it and I throughly enjoyed the ride.

Can we talk about the characters for a moment? You know how book reviewers always talk about (trust me, I'm guilty of this, too) relating to a character? Well, I can certainly say that I related to none of them, but, but, BUT, I got them. I completely got their motivation, their anger and although I was shocked by the truly awful act that takes place, I understood what April was accomplishing. The creepy spell that April casts over the reader is one that I easily admired. I kept asking myself -- who is the villain in this story? And the answer was -- I wasn't sure. That conclusion made the story pretty darn perfect.

As summer days get hotter and longer, pick up Wink Poppy Midnight. It's the right combo of weird, strange, short (only 256 pages) and tension-filled. All of which is guaranteed to keep you interested on that beach or by that pool.  Aside: the comparisons to We Were Liars or Holly Black's stories (especially the faerie ones) hold up.

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