100 Days of Sunlight

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C) To make her empathize more with people who are disabled long-term, which I guess she didn't do before being temporarily blinded? (If anything, this just makes Tessa even LESS likable than I stated in my original review, wow.) It’s Tessa and Weston’s first Christmas together, and Tessa is determined to make it the best holiday ever. But when her DAYS OF SUNLIGHT is, by far, one of my favorite books of all time! Not only is it a real, bright, (at times brooding), emotional rollercoaster. But it is, for me, deeply relatable and personal. While there are books out there in the ether with themes of overcoming and bravery in the face of a daily challenge such as disability... I haven't felt quite like a story "gets me" as much as 1DOS. The author, Abbie Emmons, delves into the gritty emotions of struggling day to day when you think you'll never see or walk again. Her main characters, Tessa and Weston, help each other realize the potential that Life has all around them -- even when you're faced with the loss of one or more of your senses. Unfortunately, this book was incredibly offensive. I did not like it, and I'm going to try to explain why to the best of my ability. I also want to point out that there will likely be spoilers in my review, so read at your own risk.

For one, the language. I know there's a lot of differing opinions, even among Christians, whether or not language is appropriate in fiction. And we don't need to go into my opinions on that right now. But for me, in this book, most if not all of the swearing was SO unnecessary. And there was a lot of it. More than I expected, which was disappointing. And this is being marketed as secular fiction (to my knowledge), so that gives it a little more leeway in my opinion, but still, there was just. so. much. swearing. That took away greatly from my enjoyment of this book. For those of you who are wanting more detailed information as to the language: Multiple uses of h*ll, cr*p, oh my god and variations, and sh*t. Plus one mention of the f-bomb. What was your path to becoming an author? What about a writing coach/educator/resource? Which came first and how did you make the pivot to the other? Weston, man. Just....Weston. He's brilliant and I adored him and his outlook and I felt for his internal struggle so much. The broken, hurting, optimistic, bright boys are always my favorites. He reminded me a lot of one of my own characters in that respect. And all his brothers! I LOVED IT. He was such a unique, fresh, lovable guy. I loved it. The truth? I l o v e d this book. I mean, first of all, I looooove how the cover ties everything, every lil' bit of this book together. Ahhhh *happy sigh* Both characters have strong character arcs, though Weston's feels a little bit like it does a double take towards the end.

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The aesthetics. Yellow, polaroid cameras, waffles, blogger love, sunshine, obnoxiously optimistic boys...what’s not to love? Let’s talk about Weston, AKA the only reason I’m giving this book a two star rating instead of a one star—probably the only reason I finished it. (Edit: I've since lowered the rating on my review.) We got to know him even more than we did Tessa, and I would argue that he could be considered the true main character of 100 Days of Sunlight. Tessa and Weston's relationship is so simple and pure and wonderful. Seeing them slowly learn to trust each other as they begin to fall in love is the most beautiful thing. Their growth and individual character arcs were stunning, and their relationship along made me never want the book to end. Because the book revolved around their story, it wasn't very fast-paced, but I quite literally never put it down. I read it cover to cover in the span of an afternoon, totally obsessed. It was two seventeen-year-olds falling in love in the most natural, beautiful way, and I couldn't get enough. Abbie Emmons is an able-bodied person writing about two disabled individuals, one of which who is only disabled temporarily, as a plot device to... This is not disability representation, this is representation of how able bodied people see disability with the language the community have been fighting so hard against for years

Weston and Tessa's characters are so relatable in the sense that even if this is not a usual happening in our daily lives, there are people who experience what both of them are experiencing. It's truly about how you make every second count by not giving up on things that matter. That sometimes, all you need is one big push (and that push might just be a person and not an instance). It’s specified and written out that he was kissing her without permission. What I don’t understand is why include a part about asking her in the first place? Either you’re overcome with passion and kiss her, which has its issues, but I’m more comfortable with that than this scenario where he’s taking the time to ask and them not even waiting for an answer. I don’t see any excuse there. If you took the time to ask the question, you can take the time to wait for the answer.This was a compellingly sweet story of two teenagers finding first love in the most charmingly unfortunate way. Everything about it feels so raw and realistic. I look forward to reading more of her work in the future." As for the theme! It was easily the best part of the book. I won't even try to sum up the theme, I'll leave it to you to read the book. You won't be disappointed. Annoying female lead who thinks she is strong/best/superior/un-typical but in fact she is nothing but annoying