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.
Who I would recommend this for:
I would recommend this to readers that enjoyed Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand, Places No One Knows by Breanna Yovanoff, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, and The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle
It is actually really difficult for me to review this book, because I really want to love Wink, Poppy, Midnight. I was really excited to get the book and have a chance to read it, so when I did - I was really kind of caught off guard by how I felt after I read it. Because of my overall mixed feelings about Wink, Poppy, Midnight, I'm going to divide this review between things that I like about it and things that I didn't.
What I like about the book:
I really enjoy the multiple points of views between Wink, Poppy, and Midnight. Midnight's point of view was good and consistent through the whole book. His point of view creates a bridge and focal point for the whole book. Also, Midnight is able to shed light on both Wink and Poppy. Plus, he had the most interaction between the two.
Wink's point of view was the most interesting of the three. As a character, Wink does not have a strong personality (besides being a odd/weird girl) that is presented, but she does provide elements of mystery, fairy tales, and young innocence. Also, Wink provides the biggest plot twist of the entire story. Her character comes across as small and not that significant, which makes the the twist that occurs that much more dramatic. I was completely caught off guard and thrown for a loop.
Poppy's character has the strongest voice in the whole book. I enjoyed that Tucholke made her voice so clear and unique. Poppy is a bully, but that is just one facet of her character. I enjoyed the depth that her character holds. She struggles with her identity and who she wants to be. Poppy is definitely not a character that I always liked. I really didn't even like Poppy until the end of the book, which is the opposite from how I felt about Wink.
What I didn't like about the book:
I wish that the book was longer to possibly develop more of a plot. The book has 247 pages and I feel like that is very short when the point of view is constantly changing and action and plot didn't really develop until later in the book.
I absolutely hated the ending and maybe it was just because I hated the twist and Wink at the end. Possibly, I don't know. I just know that once I finished the book, it left a sour taste for me.
I feel that the age and maturity of the characters is very noticeable by the end of it. The maturity level of Wink wasn't that questionable in the beginning, she just came across as really odd and really enjoyed fairy tales stories. My thoughts completely change at the end. Honestly, I think that she is completely crazy and a psychopath at the age of 15. As for Midnight, I feel really sorry for Midnight at the end and really surprised about his character's resolution. As for Poppy, I'm glad that she got her little bit of HEA, but the resolution is still kind of odd for her age.
Overall, the book's ending is odd, weird, and not really realistic at all! It left me with a sour feeling. Thus, 3 stars because of the writing style and unique point of views, but definitely not loving the book!
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