Wink Poppy Midnight
by April Genevieve Tucholke
Source: bought
My Rating: 4 stars
Summary:
Every story needs a hero.
Every story needs a villain.
Every story needs a secret.
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.
****
Wink
Poppy Midnight was read my first book by April Genevieve Tucholke and it did not disappoint! I
knew I had to read it as soon as I read the synopsis and started reading
everywhere how weird it was.
To be
honest, I didn’t find it enormously weird, but maybe that’s because I’ve read
many books with weird characters that now I find them normal. Anyway, this book
was different and a bit… gothic?
Wink, Poppy
and Midnight are some very singular characters. The book is narrated through
their POVs, first person, and though Midnight is the one who lead the story,
with longer and clearer chapters, the girls’ chapters are alluring and addictive.
“Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.”
I really
liked the writing of this book. Most of the chapters were short, and that made
it a page turner.
Most of
the characters are bad, mean, but somehow I ended up caring about them and I
loved reading their stories. I had a fun time trying to figure out if Poppy was
really the villain, and Wink the liar, or the other way around. I wanted to
know if Midnight was really the hero or not.
The
ending was unexpected, and twisted, and it finally gave me all the answers I
needed. I loved it!
It was
the perfect ending to that… ok, weird
plot.
Can I
say now how much I love that cover? Oh God! It’s so freaking beautiful and it
match the story inside.
I loved
Wink Poppy Midnight and if you still haven’t read it, you must!
