She strings Midnight along and he moves away (only 2 miles) to try to break the spell of her power over him. She’s a self described bully and makes no apologies. Poppy is the local mean girl – manipulating her friends, and especially boys, to do her bidding. Is it paranormal or is it just a Mean Girls contemporary YA filled with metaphors and lyrical prose and fairy tale references to keep you off track? Was this a fairy tale? Albeit a Grimm fairy tale – these characters are mean. I didn’t find the plot confusing so much as I couldn’t figure out what type of story the author was trying to tell. The thing is – I could have thoroughly researched this book first and STILL wouldn’t have understood what the hell was going on. I never know what kind of book I’m getting into when it starts of with that type of whimsy. Maybe I should have because I was immediately thrown when I realized the characters were named Wink, Poppy and Midnight (not to mention there are also Leaf’s Buttercup, and Bee to name a few more). I went into this book cold turkey – without reading the summary.
Review (or better known as my jumbled thoughts): Source: ARC obtained from the Amazon Vine program in exchange for an honest review Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them.
Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles.
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