100 Days of Sunlight

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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. It's really easy to read, the writing style is amazing and gives you emotions, but not the kind that breakes you. She’s obviously going through a very difficult time, but I did not like how she reacted to Weston’s presence. If you have to give almost a full chapter of backstory at the beginning of your story, you started in the wrong place. It had the ups and downs and had a character move forward after she lost her leg, with the help and advice from those that cared about her.

What’s more than that, Tessa’s reaction was just to assume that someone asking for a kiss was a rhetorical question.I generally avoid books that involve Western religion in any kind of, “come back to church” context, so that soured this read for me early on. She seemed to know what she was talking about, so I reasoned that her book was probably pretty decent. I'm assuming the title is an ode to Weston being her sunlight, or maybe feeling the sunlight on her skin but not being able to see it.

But Weston knows exactly how she feels and reaches into her darkness to show her that there is more than one way to experience the world. But Weston’s journey was what really made this a one-star read for me, and so I’m going to spend the rest of this review focusing on him. He literally describes everything which I am pretty sure is impossible even for the inner monologue. He gets what Tessa is going through even when she feels like no one does, and thinks that he can help her.Although this book wasn’t for me and I feel bad about giving a one-star review to an indie author I follow, I want to make it clear that I am thoroughly impressed with Abbie. Abbie has a stripped-back style that makes the book easy to read and generates a real connection and empathy for the characters. Maybe it's just that most of the book is squeaky clean, and much of the dialogue sounds a bit formal.

I'm very much of the opinion that someone doesn't have to ask every single time if it's okay to kiss someone else. The characterization of Weston and Tessa felt off-balance because of this – I feel like I didn’t get to know Tessa that much. Since the bulk of the book oscillated between present day and flashbacks to Weston’s accident and recovery, I didn’t feel a sense of urgency. By neglecting to actually address and correct these misbeliefs not only is Abbie ignoring her own advice, but it actually leaves readers with the impression that "Yeah, she can't do that because she blind" when actually her blindness isn't the reason, it's her attitude. Going out on another limb here, I just wanted to say that opening the book with Tessa having a nightmare and then waking up feels like SUPER lazy writing and I really didn't expect Abbie to make this choice.the 🅵🅴🅴🅻🆂 😭 YA romance isn't 𝓾𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 my jam 🙈, but a heroine that has тeмporally loѕт нer ѕιgнт and a hero that loѕт вoтн нιѕ legѕ sounded like a 🅤🅝🅘🅠🅤🅔 and 🅘🅝🅣🅔🅡🅔🅢🅣🅘🅝🅖 story. I would recommend this to anyone who wanted to have some positive and good and healthy disability representation in their lives.

He sticks around because Tessa treats him like an able-bodied person instead of treating him like he's fragile now because he's disabled. This particular nightmare about Tessa's car accident was accompanied by like 10 pages of exposition regarding said accident and the subsequent hospital stay and doctor visits. Even if I was the intended audience for this book, I probably would still have given it a low rating because the writing and plotting of this book frustrated me. There are a couple of disability groups that do prefer person first language (people with Down syndrome, and intellectual disability) but majority, subscribe to the social model of disability and prefer identity first language, which this book advocates against.

Weston was reckless before his accident and he's reckless after his accident and his family don't seem to take any action on it or talk to him about it. It's depicted as Weston deciding to ignore medical advice and toss out his papers and instructions from his physician - NOT BECAUSE HE'S OVERWHELMED AND ANGRY OR GREIF STRICKEN OVER HIS ACCIDENT, but because he wants to stick it to the authority and just decides that he's not going to follow the rules because he doesn't want to. If you're in a place right now where you feel like you're running out of options, or that things are never going to get better, or that you don't know how to pick yourself back up - this is the book for you.