Guys, I read a book! I feel like this is newsworthy since it’s been forever….
Why did you choose this book?
This was one of the first ARCs (Advance Reader’s Copies) I picked up in my last job. It’s a little sad that I’m just now getting around to reading it.
What’s it about?
Molly made a mistake during her junior year – sleeping with her boyfriend’s brother. She kept the secret for a year, until her mom’s next novel was published, revealing all of the gritty details to everyone in town. After a year away at boarding school, Molly just has to survive the summer back home. It’s only 99 days.
Categories
Teen, fiction
Review
This book helped to pull me out of a reading slump (hence why I haven’t blogged since June). I read it over the course of two evenings, and found it pretty enjoyable. The book is structured with each chapter as one of the 99 days, some with less than a page of text and others of “normal” chapter length. I made the mistake of reading some Goodreads reviews halfway through, which I think unfairly colored my perception of the remainder of the book. Molly definitely made some mistakes and was kind of whiny, but I found the book to be fine for some fun light reading. Patrick, however, escaped too unscathed.
Refresher (here there be spoilers)
No really, this is a book summary/plot synopsis
Ok, I warned you…
In essence, Molly gets a job at a hotel and befriends her ex-boyfriend’s (Patrick) new girlfriend, Tess. Patrick’s brother Gabe has been falling for Molly for most of their lives (he’s also the one she slept with), and he starts dating her again. Molly is constantly bullied by Patrick’s twin, Julia, who becomes much nicer after Molly discovers she’s a lesbian. However, Patrick can’t resist Molly’s charms (he’s kind of a jerk) and starts fooling around with her whenever he can. He sneaks into her house to have sex for the first time, but upon realizing that Molly went all the way with Gabe, becomes irate with her and spills the truth about what they’ve been doing together all summer. Just as everything is coming together for Molly, it all falls apart again, except this time not even Gabe is her ally. Luckily, by this point the 99 days are over and Molly is off to college to bond with her new roommate Roisin, who has also had a summer filled with boyfriend drama. Talk about a roller coaster ride of a novel – I think Molly had the ambiguous ending she deserved, but I think Patrick needed to be impacted by more of the fallout.
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