100 Days of Sunlight

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One moment she was portrayed as a bright young poet dreaming of sunshine and then next she was lashing out at her caring, patient grandparents and proclaiming that no one could possibly help her. Disabled people are often viewed as one of two extremes, inspiration porn full of toxic positivity that can't be stopped by anything, and helpless children that can't do anything. Now, you learn how Weston loses his legs, and I’m not really going to comment much about that aspect. We got next to nothing in terms of meeting Tessa or understanding how Tessa feels or what she's going through before being hurtled into pages upon pages of flashback. Faith is a tricky topic for some of us, and religion has played a part in the trauma of too many people to count--myself included.

But the transition from sweet introvert to brooding, spiteful “volcano” felt unnatural despite Tessa’s injury, and I can’t quite put my finger on why. He literally describes everything which I am pretty sure is impossible even for the inner monologue.

His brother who was there when he first sustained his injury gets over his guilt for his part in the situation after the two hug it out once. Weston’s story was an incredible opportunity for me to explore the emotional journey of getting back up when life knocks you down. Tessa, also, was a very well-rounded character, and while I struggled to relate to her and the way she handled certain things, nonetheless I think a lot of people will relate and empathize with her.

It was a clever way to let the characters explore the world and get to know one another, and it helped the reader know where we were in the story. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I didn’t like Tessa that much at first, and I definitely preferred reading Weston’s chapters a lot more.One of my favorite parts is that this book is told in five parts, with each part titled as one of the five senses. There was nothing about this first chapter that made me like or want to connect with Tessa and throughout the rest of the book I also felt like it was lacking in depicting her emotions and making me feel like I'm inside her head and I get her.

so I'm not going to touch on that, but the prose in the regular writing just feels to be making a mockery of something that's really very serious. The relationship depicted in this book is very problematic and the portrayal of disability and PTSD is also problematic. I highlighted a quote I liked, and although the writing never wowed me, I was happy to keep on reading. Weston does everything for Tessa, someone he has never met in his life, someone who hated his guts, someone who is unwilling to do anything, someone who is a cry-baby. And for some reason, I kept picturing his character as Joshua Basset (except with no legs) the whole time.But since I thought the author was a Christian, it caught me off guard that her characters took the Lord’s name in vain as frequently as they did. Things might get a bit spoilery, but I don’t recommend reading this book, so I don’t mind leaving those bits in. There were a lot of charming moments as the two teens established a fragile friendship that then grew from strength to strength.

When you make everything in your story matter to your characters (given their motivations and fears) you can truly engage your reader and leave them thinking long after they turn the final page of your story. The amount of times I've had to deal with people accusing me of faking my blindness because "How are you typing if you're blind? Days of Sunlight is a story that I feel has always been in my heart, I just didn’t know it until April 2017. But then they start falling for each other, and Weston’s afraid she’ll stop treating him like a normal person if she figures out his secret.

cringes* okay, okay, don't kill me, but if there's a looooot of hype about a book, I usually won't care for it. This is an emotional, heart-rending read that will trigger all of the feels, and will have you falling in love with Tessa and Weston. As a high school English teacher, I also feel that this will be a great addition to our school library due to the content and the powerful message of hope and resilience. The book starts on Day 21 for some reason, with a flashback, and Tessa takes us through a very brief retelling of what happened to cause the loss of her eyesight.