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99 Days by Katie Cotugno
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Let's see to who I could recommend this book to... I could recommend this book to anyone who loves love triangles between brothers, selfish characters with no redeeming qualities whatsoever and people who are willing to hurt even people that never harmed them!

So enter Molly, the worst character I've ever read about out, and that says a lot. Molly was in a relationship with Patrick, then slept with his brother Gabe and now she's back in her hometown for a last summer before college. No surprise no one really like her, eh? But what does Molly do about that?? She starts a relationship with Gabe, then befriends Tess, Patrick's new girlfriend and then repeatedly cheats on Gabe with Patrick... If someone can please find on braincell inside the head of this girl, I'd love photographic proof of it. Molly is so selfish, she cares about absolutely no one except for herself and every time the author tried to convince me otherwise, I just wasn't having it.

The book is trying to portray the double standard, of calling a girl a whore when she's sleeping around and not bothering with the boys she did it with. But it's so lost in the plot, because I cannot forgive Molly. She didn't utter a single "I'm sorry" to anyone and if that doesn't scream "entitled" I don't know what does! Also, the fact that she knew Patrick and Gabe's family so well since she was a kid and called them "her second family" should have been enough motivation to stop her from doing what she did. Because I can understand making one mistake and feeling sorry for it, but making the same mistake again and again, becomes a choice.

All in all, I think this book is so toxic, it's message is awful for teenagers that are in search of a relationship, because it normalizes cheating and not apologising and in the end, Molly just left happily for college, like the whole summer didn't even happen.