April Genevieve Tucholke

Wink Poppy Midnight

Hannah Russo

absolutely beautiful. transported me to a cottage core reality and world i longed to be in myself, despite all the drama and mishaps that occurred in the book. i couldn’t put it down!

Alexa M

the writing style was sooooo good love love

mercy

3.5/3.75 this book isn't for everyone (hence the mixed reviews) but i personally really enjoyed it!!

Emelie

Hade potential men slutet blev bara flummigt!

High Fidelity

Pripovedanje prelepo. Zanimljivi likovi i koncept price. Po mom misljenju nezadovoljavajuci zavrsetak. Kratko i brzo stivo,preporucujem svakako.

Callisone Dozier

Tucholke wrote beautifully, but sometimes I didn't know exactly what I was supposed to be understanding. It was an easy read, read it in a matter of hours, but I never felt connected with the story.

jess

This was beautifully written and a really interesting premise. I was really confused though, and I really hated Poppy's character.

Emma

What a tangled web! With a tagline like "A Hero. A villain. A liar. Who's who?" I should have guessed that it would be a wild ride, but maybe my last reading slump left me feeling pessimistic towards books. Wink Poppy Midnight certainly fixed that. Wow, wow! I was hooked page 1, sentence one and kept engaged with plenty of twists and turns and magic. I can honestly say I did not see the end coming and was completely taken by surprise. What an awesome story! Kinda refreshing in how grounded it really is. Think I went through the whole range of emotions about all of the characters, but in the end they are all wonderfully unique and fascinating and a little bit terrifying. There's mystery and intrigue, and you get to see the story unfold from the perspective of each of the main characters. Great read!

Steysha

I`m so messed up right now, I don`t even know what to think. I loved it, I hated it, and now I`m soooooo confused. Need time to think it through. If I thought that Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was batshit crazy, then I don`t even have words to describe this story. It`s like Alice in Wonderland - it`s wonderful, but it still doesn`t make any sense and it`s totally insane. Ugh! 

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Oh, dat cover though... 
Also, Mara Dyer + We Were Liars + The Raven Boys? Seriously? I`m sooo intrigued!
Tbh, sounds too good to be true, but we`ll see.

Nicki

Umm. What the actual fuck? This was just. I have no words. I'm still confused. I don't get it. I don't get anything. This was frustrating and annoying and I can't be arsed.

Amanda Kordeliski

If We Were Liars and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea had a love child, it would be this book. Midnight might be one of the dumbest, most naive boys in all of YA lit.

Carley Whitehead

Jennifer

I normally don't write reviews on books that I don't enjoy so this review will be a short one. I think the names & imageries (esp. the archetypes) assigned in the book are pretty interesting (and this novel is quite an easy read that it's very short and sweet) but I think the list of positives ends right here. The book suffers from lack of coherence (tries to assign symbolic meanings but they ended up being all over the place), no worldbuilding, minimal character development. It's like I have no idea what is going on and why a random thing (that doesn't seem to fit) is suddenly brought up. It's an okay read because it is short and unique but I can't really recommend this as a good read. 2/5

"Wink, Poppy, and Midnight's three separate voices come together to reveal the secrets and mysteries hiding in the woods around their home"--

María Belén

What's with this book? I didn't get it. Is it supposed to be meaningful in some way? 

The characters are either too cliché or too crazy. Or maybe just stupid, I don't know. 

For the first half of the book there's no plot at all. And the storyline was predictable and silly. By the end I was like ??. I didn't get it and I was bored.

Jessica Williamson

4 Stars even.

This book was weird. Like, I know I said a Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland was weird but this was like 8x the weird. Yeah. Weird. 

The first line is awkward, the characters are so dang peculiar and by God, I enjoyed it so much!

I read this via e-book and you just have to be careful because the font they use to show you the perspective is so dang tiny and illegible that you have to really focus to see which perspective you're in. And it jumps around a lot so you really need to know where you are. 

The story unfolds with both past and present storylines and they intersect very wonderfully. Tucholke had to keep good notes to have kept up with the way these things wove together. 

The main point of this story is that everyone lies to some extent. Everyone is the hero and the villain sometimes, just depending on whose perspective you're in. And when you realize you're the villain, you can move on and become the hero of someone else's story.

The ending is open-ended a bit. I mean it's not a cliffhanger or anything, but it could have been a little less mysterious to suit my tastes, but it was a good ending either way.

Amanda

Not what I was expecting and kinda disappointed

Jelke Lenaerts

The concept of this book was very original. I loved seeing from the perspective of the mean girl instead of just having one because that's how it supposed to be. Wink's family reminded me a lot of Blue's family from the raven boys only then - a couple of aunts and + a lot of children. 
I really liked the diverse cast of characters. I love how this book didn't really have a love triangle even though it could have perfectly had one.
I think I didn't like though was that I was constantly confused throughout this book. That kind of took away from the experience and made me dock a couple of stars. I woulf still recommend this though

full review: http://jelkelenaerts.blogspot.be/2016...

Tanya Sutton

WTF did I just read? The writing in this book is lyrical and captivating but it only serves to briefly disguise the fact that nothing happens. There's no story for the first half of the book and what character development there is doesn't *actually* make you feel like you know the characters more. The characters are so intentionally "quirky" that it creates a divide between them and the reader, making it virtually impossible to care about them. The synopsis made it sound like some kind of psychological thriller but that's sadly not the case. I honestly have no idea what happened at the end and, frankly, but the time I got there I no longer cared. When it comes down to it, this is the story of a spoiled rich girl, an "eccentric" girl, and some guy with serious self-esteem issues trying to manage a sort-of-relationship with them both at the same time. Not for me.

The cover is pretty, though, so it has that going for it.

Alexis 

I didn't like anything about this book. I wanted to get violent with the characters and just smack every single on of them across the face. There was honestly nothing i liked about any of the characters, they all just really annoyed me, and i really just didn't like the plot at all.

Anastaciya

aaand I'm somewhat disappointed. Thought the story would go differently. Oh well... Still a nice read.

Zoe Smolen

Having finished this book, I echo what a lot of others have said. 

This book is strange and weird, but oddly charming. Is it set in the present? Are they in Oregon or The South? What is going on? 

That said, I didn't hate it, and quite liked it. It is surely not for everyone, but I found it to be a quick and curious tale.

Going into this story, I wasn't totally sure what I was about to read. It seemed like a mystery, one where I would figure it out before the big reveal came, and the characters would be normal and the romance perfect. I didn't read reviews before this, I kept it vague because I wanted-on the off chance that it was good-to be surprised. 

 

Well, I was surprised. 

 

Let me first begin with this story plot. I finished reading this book, and I'm still a little lost. I feel like the mystery wasn't completely solved even though it was. Even sitting here now, I'm wondering and going over the ending over and over again. Because it was so surprising and different. It was good yet not. I'm so torn on this book.

 

 

The writing in this book is different. Okay, let's be real: this book was just weird. Like, really weird. I had no idea what I was reading most of the time, but I couldn't put it down. I needed to know what the heck was going on, and to do that, I needed to finish reading it. April has a way with words and keeping the readers attention focused. I could not let this one go. I needed to finish it. So I read it in a day, and here I am, trying to get my thoughts focused to write this review.

 

Midnight: the male Hero of this book. First off, people in this book have weird names. Anyway, he's our main Hero and to be quite honest, I didn't fully connect with him. I'm not sure why but he just fell flat to me. That doesn't mean I didn't like his character, but what you'll see as I continue on, I didn't really connect with anyone.

 

"I knew one's body, every dip, every inch, every toe, everybend. 

The other had her hand in mine and it was the first time we'd ever touched."-Midnight.

 

Poppy: Ah, one of the leading ladies. In the beginning, I hated Poppy. She was a bully who hurt everyone. I thought she was the worse person and I felt no sympathy towards her. She had rich parents, she jumped between guys, she messed with everyone's feelings. It was horrible. But as I continued on, something happened. Suddenly, I understood her. Everything she did, the way she spoke. Poppy is lost, and those who are lost wander until they find their rightful spot. That's what Poppy did. 

 

"But I plan on dying when I'm still young and beautiful like Marilyn Monroe, just watch me."-Poppy.

 

Wink: This is an interesting character for sure. I had no idea what to make of her. She was weird, different, and crazy. I usually like those characters, and while Wink is great, I didn't fully enjoy reading about her. I was mostly confused about her and her family, the stories she kept telling Midnight. 

 

"I shouldn't have kissed the Hero. The kissing was supposed to come at the very end. After the montser, and the fight. After the glass cofin and the pinprick of blood."-Wink.

 

There is barely any romance, so don't expect that. I don't usually read these kinds of books, but I just felt the need to, and oddly, it was nice. It was a simple story, yet so complex without the romance involved. 

 

The end is crazy. I don't know how to proporly talk about the ending without giving something away, so I'll just say that it blew me away, and for someone who usually has the reveals figured out, this one threw me for a loop. Everything wraps up nicenly. The Hero has a family, Poppy's ending was surprising and Wink... She still seemed lost to me. I don't know, you'll just have to read this to understand what I'm talking about.

Heather Killeen

This book is really hard to review...At first all the narrator's voices annoyed me and throughout most of it I was convinced that all the character's were terrible with the most ridiculous names I've ever heard. You put together the ultimate mean girl, a weird aloof Luna Lovegood type with a shy emo boy in the middle and you could get the most obnoxious love triangle ever written. But at some point fairly early on the languid descriptive language hooked me, it got under my skin and pulled me down until I was completely absorbed by the story. It's told from alternating points of view (from characters Wink "the Luna", Poppy "the mean girl", and Midnight "the emo kid"). Sometimes the timelines overlapped, but this didn't bother me much as it usually does. Their points of view start so different but by then end they sound more and more similar as the three of them become bound together by events. 

A lot of this book is a reflection on epic fantasy stories. The characters love these stories and try to categorize and label common archetypes and plot lines into their own not-quite-as-exciting (although this could be debated) lives. But mostly, I think this story is about loss and finding/accepting one's self, albeit through some pretty horrifying experiences and decisions by the characters. But I think it's also about how seductive story-telling is, both to others and to ourselves. Every reader seeks some elusive escape at least a little bit, and what happens when the fictions and truths we tell ourselves bleed together.

Laura Allen

This book was not what I expected at all. I almost gave up reading it a couple of times and had to skim a huge chuck of it. Nothing of importance happens the first 100 pages. The characters were either completely insane or air-head stupid. Overall this wasn't my kind of book.

Wink Poppy Midnight

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