99 Days is written by Katie Cotugno. The genres that this book falls under include young adult, contemporary, realistic fiction, and romance.
Few facts about about the author, Katie Cotugno.
She wrote the first draft of 99 days in 99 days.
99 days is an homage to her two favorite summer movies - Dirty Dancing and Mystic Pizza - which is why Molly works at a resort and the Donnellys own a pizza place.
How to Love was Katie's first novel.
The main character Molly just returned home for the summer before going to college in Boston. She left for her senior to go to an all girl private school because of something she did her junior year. You don't really get what she did only that it was to her at the time boyfriend, Patrick. You find out a long the way pieces of the story. I loved it. I liked not knowing exactly what happened at taking guesses at what she did.
This was either a hate or love book. Cheating is always a touchy subject. No one in this book was innocent. No one ever really is, and this book really showed that, and it really impressed me.
{"Gabe shrugs. "You could have told me," he says, and, God, he sounds so disappointed. "All summer, we've been-you could have-I said I loved you, Molly." He huffs out a frustrated laugh. "And, like, I'm not a lunatic, I know how fast that was, but-"
"Did you, though?" I interrupt suddenly. "I mean, did you actually love me? Or did you just need to beat Patrick at this, too?"
"Molly." Gabe touches his tongue to the split place on his mouth, looks at something over my shoulder. "Maybe it started that way."}
I absolutely adore the fact that she doesn't end up with either of the boys. I think the fact that she chooses herself in the end is prodigious. I believe that women shouldn't need a guy to move on in their lives. No need to be tied down when Molly is going to college either. She needs to grow and learn from her mistakes.
I hated that her mother also betrayed her and now she doesn't even trust her own mother. It's very heartbreaking that when everything else is going wrong that she doesn't even have family to fall back on.
{""I'm a writer, Molly," she interrupts me, like it's a religion or her freaking culture or something, like some kind of messed-up moral relativism will explain this away."I take real-life events and I fictionalize them-that's what I do, that's what I've always done. Of course there are going to be-"
"You're my mom!" I counter, my voice cracking in a way that betrays all the nasty coldness I've spent the last year and a half cultivating, an ugly break in the shell. I shake my head, slam the coffeepot down on the counter hard enough I'm afraid it might shatter. "Or, like-you were supposed to be. You chose me, remember? That's what you always said. But really you just wanted to sell me for parts.""}
Even though I love the fact that it shows that everyone has a bad side. I absolutely hate that everyone is crap to everyone. I mean everyone loves a good guy and a hero, but it's under the genre 'realistic fiction'.
The double standards. She had sex with a guy, but only she is the slut. I think that Gabe should have had consequences as well. I mean Patrick hated him, but they never got along in the first place.
{""It feels unfair, though, right?" Gabe says, "I mean, if you're a dirty slut, then I'm a dirty slut.""}
_Fantastic Fiction_
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