The end was slightly confusing to me as first, no spoilers though, so I’ll just say it felt fufilling and unfulfilling all at the same time. I liked her relationship with her best friend, even though it was pushed aside for Charlie in the middle there. I think it was a nice portrayle of her dad learning to let go and give her some freedom. I liked the…semi realistic way her late nights and pushing curfew was handled especially considering she’s 18. On to the good: the relationship between Katie and her dad was AMAZING! It was honestly the best part of the entire book! I also loved the information given around her illness, it was a prominent aspect that wasn’t pushed aside for the romance, which I did end up rooting for, if only slightly begrudgingly. Why couldn’t he of just said “oh yeah we dated for a while, but it’s over now” and leave it respectfully at that?! To be with someone in any capacity and then say She was something to be ashamed of. At this girls house, Charlie gives Katie a damn tour, revealing that they use to see each other and then at Katie’s expression proceeds to say that he wasn’t “proud of it”…ummm what the fuck dude. AND OF COURSE this mean girl use to hook up with Katie’s love interest Charlie. Trust me, I get the concept of thinking of childhood bullies as still bullies today, but is I think realistic to keep that hatred when you’ve had zero contact for years? I don’t know. And that’s the thing that got me, Katie literally hasn’t spoken to her since then but still talks about her as if those things happened last week. She bullied Katie and of course has had no personal growth since those childhood days. A girl she literally hasn’t seen or spoken to since they were CHILDREN but of course the mean girl gets meaner. So of course Katie has a childhood nemesis. My biggest problem was definitely the girl on girl hate. Too many brackets and there was so many moments where Katie would be talking AT the reader instead of telling the story. I was over the writing style after the first couple of chapters. There were a lot of positive and negative things that I got from this book.įirst the negative for me a lot of the initial interactions between Katie and Charlie we incredibly cliche, basically I’ve seen it a thousand times before and at best it was just super cringe. This isn’t a bad thing, it was just something that confused me at first and something I haven’t seen/read before. At first I thought it was a book to movie adaption, but now I think it might be a movie to book kinda deal, because all the lines in the trailer were word for, scene for scene in the book. I discovered this book through the trailer for its movie counterpart.

And no, it’s not really anything like everything, everything in my opinion. Basically this book is about a girl with an illness that means if she is exposed to sunlight, she could die.

Midnight sun book trish cook