Wink deals with some intense bullying from Poppy, and we ultimately feel sorry for her. Most of the book she dotes on Midnight, stamps him to be the hero of the story, and tries to build him up to be so. She portrays herself as an innocent girl. A girl that walks to the beat to her own drum. If you ever read Harry Potter before, she’s kind of like Luna Lovegood.

Her POV’s are flooded with book references, which while I didn’t know most of them, I did see how they fit into the story. Wink I found to be the most interesting character of the 3. Lines are blurred, morals are questions, nobody is innocent. Although, let’s just say while first impressions are not what they seem to be, I can also safely say that the ambiguous line between the hero, villain, and liar is definitely there. We know from the synopsis that theirs a hero, a villain, and a liar. Sometimes books can get bogged down with multiple POV’s, but April pens her characters with such purpose and finesse that I was in awe with how well each character turned out to be. Wink, Poppy, and Midnight are 3 characters that are so uniquely written and differ in so many ways. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.įor fans of Holly Black, We Were Liars, and The Virgin Suicides, this mysterious tale full of intrigue, dread, beauty, and a whiff of something strange will leave you utterly entranced.

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. The intrigue of The Raven Boys and the “supernatural or not” question of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer coalesce in this young adult mystery, where nothing is quite as it seems, no one is quite who you think, and everything can change on a dime. I’m quite glad it turned out that way, because this book blew me out of the water. It’s not that I heard anything horrible about it, it just wasn’t high up on my radar going into it. I must say I did not have high expectations for this book.

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