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99 Days
Written by Katie Cotugno
Narrated by Allyson Ryan
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- HarperAudio
- Released:
- Apr 21, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780062397942
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- Audiobook
Description
From the acclaimed author of How to Love comes another stunning contemporary novel, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen.
Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer—99 days—with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for...his brother.
Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that's how I know everyone still remembers everything. She has every right to hate me, of course: I broke Patrick Donnelly's heart the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. Now I'm serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college and be done.
Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isn't finished. I'm expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but it's just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. "For what it's worth, Molly Barlow," he says, "I'm really glad you're back."
Day 12: Gabe wouldn't quit till he got me to come to this party, and I'm surprised to find I'm actually having fun. I think he's about to kiss me—and that's when I see Patrick. My Patrick, who's supposed to be clear across the country. My Patrick, who's never going to forgive me.
A HarperAudio production.
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99 Days
Written by Katie Cotugno
Narrated by Allyson Ryan
Description
From the acclaimed author of How to Love comes another stunning contemporary novel, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen.
Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer—99 days—with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for...his brother.
Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that's how I know everyone still remembers everything. She has every right to hate me, of course: I broke Patrick Donnelly's heart the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. Now I'm serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college and be done.
Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isn't finished. I'm expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but it's just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. "For what it's worth, Molly Barlow," he says, "I'm really glad you're back."
Day 12: Gabe wouldn't quit till he got me to come to this party, and I'm surprised to find I'm actually having fun. I think he's about to kiss me—and that's when I see Patrick. My Patrick, who's supposed to be clear across the country. My Patrick, who's never going to forgive me.
A HarperAudio production.
- Publisher:
- HarperAudio
- Released:
- Apr 21, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780062397942
- Format:
- Audiobook
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"It's not that I don't think they all deserve to hate me...but I'm not the only one they deserve to hate. It feels like such a gross double standard."
I don't mind a book with unlikeable and heavily flawed characters if it is written really well, and if I feel like I took something away from it. I thoroughly enjoyed Cotugno's writing style, and it made breezing through this book easy and enjoyable.
Our protagonist Molly isn't loveable, she isn't the typical YA nerdy girl or a MPDG-she is just a flawed human that makes unbelievably horrible decisions that hurt innocent (Tess, Imogine, and Connie) and not so innocent people around her (The Donnelly siblings, and perhaps her mother). But ignoring the flawed brothers caught in this love triangle and how they throw family away to fight over and win the affections of a girl as if she is a prize from an ongoing competition, and instead only seeing Molly's flawed behavior only highlights the red letter A lesson hidden in this story.
Why is it only the girl who should pay dearly for the crimes when sex and cheating are involved? Why is her character the only one deserving of the reader's contempt? The fact that the book lets us wrestle with this in our own head when reading the protagonist in sticky and terrible situations and while making bad decisions had as much of an effect as reading the horrible ways in which she was treated in the aftermath. The slurs, the graphic sticky notes, her keyed car, toilet papered home and food/drinks tossed were only headed in one direction.
As an adult whose experiences no longer allow the existence of a black and white world, I appreciated this novel. I appreciated how the author handled it, and that at least a few of the flawed characters came to some self-recognization.
Overall, I truly enjoyed this book. It harkened me back to the movie "Inventing the Abbots" which I very much loved. This came very close to a four star read for me.
By Katie Cotugno
Readers will enjoy this young adult novel about a girl who is mistakenly labeled as a “slut” and runs away to escape the bullying and the guilt. Molly spends her senior year at a boarding school to escape her problems with her love life. Teenage girls will definitely enjoy this book.
However as I read, I began to wonder when Molly would take charge of her life and stop hiding. She’s not a slut, she’s not the worst person to walk the face of the earth, and she’s not required to take this treatment from others. Houses don’t have to be egged, cars don’t to be keyed, and threatening notes should not be left on her car. There were people who could have helped her, but she didn’t seek out help. Yes, she was mad with her mom, but Molly needed to learn to stand up for herself.