Wink Poppy Midnight

by: April Genevieve Tucholke


Every story needs a hero. Every story needs a villain. Every story needs a secret. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy. One summer. One bad thing. What really happened? Someone knows. Someone is lying. {cover copy}
Yet another delightfully strange book! I had no idea where this one was going, but I didn't even care. The characters were so interesting. I really enjoy watching characters unfurl and develop over the course of a book, and this definitely delivered that. The mystery of it was quite a nice pull throughout as well. One thing that made me laugh is that the mean girl of the story has a group of "followers" {I definitely wouldn't call them friends} that are known as The Yellows... which is what I call two of my birds. So I giggled every time I read that title. Anyway, the book was really good and the cover is beautiful!

The first time I slept with Poppy, I cried. {first line}
"Her eyes were big and green and... innocent. No one's eyes looked like that anymore. No one my age, at least. Our eyes grew up and stopped believing in magic and started caring about sex. But Feral's... they still had a faraway, puzzled, lost-in-an-enchanted-forest gleam to them."

"She wasn't trying to figure out if I was sexy, or cool, or funny, or popular. She just stood in front of me and let me keep on being whoever I really was."

"I want to like people, I do, actually, but they're all just so dumb."

"...the best Heroes had a little bit of evil in them, to make the good shine all the more for being next to it."

"All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face."

"...the most honorable thing you can do in life is forgive."


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