99 Days - Katie Cotungo

Gut Instinct Rating - 3

Characters - 3

Believability for type and topics - 3

Similarity to other books - 5

Writing Style - 4

Excitement Factor - 2

Story Line - 3

Title Relevance - 5

Cover art - 3

Dust Jacket Art - 5

To read or not to read? Meh. It wasn't horrible, but it certainly wasn't good either.

Movie? None.

Goodreads users gave this book a 3.40. I think it was more deserving of a 3.6.

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Published on April 21, 2015

Pages: 372

Publishing Company: Balzer & Bray

Number of books by author: 10 Novels

Genre: YA Fiction, Contemporary, Romance

Referred By: book_and_cranny

So this book was just insanely repetitive. I thought people were cheating and being real assholes in The Good Goodbye, which is the last book I read, so maybe I'm just over the stupidity? Also, I'm going to tell you everything that happens, so if you don't want to know... just stop reading.

The characters in this book, were easy to hate. Which is nice, to have feelings towards a character. But the problem was that I hated literally everyone, except for maybe Imogean? You've got the main character, Molly, who's from a small town and in the same night her long time beau breaks up with her, she screws his brother. She goes off for a year to another high school on a track scholarship (or so it seems), and then returns to date the older brother, hated by the twin sister and everyone else in town. So, this all seems fine and dandy, but the level of hate is just so dramatic, and kind of ridiculous. And then the cheating starts up and it's just kind of an immature story line, with immature characters, and lots of cheating. There's not even like, this revelation that things were going wrong and that a confession needed to happen. None of it. It was just ridiculously immature, the entire thing.

I don't even know how believable all this is anyways. I mean, I was raised an only child, but I do have some siblings. And quite frankly, it'd be really fucked up of me to screw my sisters' ex-boyfriend of less than an hour, and then not tell him, let them get back together the next morning, and then a year later, date the same girl. Oh, but revenge is in store -- can you guess what it is? Yup. There's a three-way-triangle between the brothers and Molly, before everyone finds out on the last few days of summer break. SHOCKING! Right? Not so much. I mean, the writing style was done in a nice enough way that it was entertaining, I suppose. But the entire time, I felt like she was either gonna get knocked up and not know who the father was, or she was just gonna keep screwing both of them. (Which is basically what happened.)

The whole book was wah, everyone hates me. And then half way through, everyone kind of adapts to her dating Gabe, the older brother, and then Patrick decides he has to break up with his girlfriend for Holly, and they fool around several times before she puts an end to it - but only because Gabe found out. So, the book is about 50% everyone hates me, 20% everything is great with Gabe, and then 30% turmoil and fall out at the end of the summer.

If nothing else, the artwork on the dust jacket and the hardback cover itself were both nice. The dust jacket was really what drew me to this book initially.