What was your path to becoming an author? What about a writing coach/educator/resource? Which came first and how did you make the pivot to the other?

Emmons strategically engaged with her audience across platforms during her pre-publication push for 100 Days of Sunlight. She kept her community in the loop through her writing process, with the cover reveal, and once she had review copies. As soon as 100 Days of Sunlight was available on NetGalley, Emmons brought her pre-existing community there, as well as finding a new audience of NetGalley members browsing for their next read. If you have any questions about the ARC reading process or NetGalley, don't hesitate to hit me up: [email protected] B) Reaffirm her belief in the Christian god, which, again, really should have been mentioned to ARC readers beforehand. I'm still irritated about that.

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How did you determine the right timing for 100 Days of Sunlight ‘s time on NetGalley with regards to its pub date and your other marketing and publicity efforts? I am all about having strong, independent female leads. I mean why would a woman need a man to show her the beauty of life yada yada? She doesn’t! By strong female characters, I mean strong. Strong in every way. They should have faults. There is a difference between strong and annoying. I have to like a character (most of the time) to actually enjoy the book otherwise I will be spending every moment hating the book, thanks to the character. A character who has to get their way, a character who ‘suffered so much’, a character who has some issues with parent (s) et cetera are overused now a days. I wouldn’t mind those type of characters if it was written in a good way! I should also mention that none of my negative criticism is intended as an insult toward Abbie herself. The opinions I’m about to share are just that, opinions. This book might be your cup of tea, but it wasn’t mine, and that’s okay. The relationship depicted in this book is very problematic and the portrayal of disability and PTSD is also problematic.

Oh, and this one is a big spoiler so I will be tagging it, but Tessa literally claims to be in love with Weston after knowing him for...two months. I was so put off by it that I had to set my Kindle aside. I know they’re teenagers, but wow I thought we had established that instalove wasn’t cute? Or something to include in books for impressionable teens? Come ON.

Review to come, because I am still DECEASED. But that was one of the best books I have ever read. I cannot wait for you all to read it. :')

To top the rest of it off, this book feels like it belongs in the religious fiction section of Barnes and Noble. The Christian undertones were SO PREVALENT and IN YOUR FACE it felt like every conversation Tessa had with anyone other than Weston was about church and faith. THIS NEEDS TO BE IN THE BLURB! I read this book a few months ago but every time I tried to do a review I would just get so angry and upset, and I would dissociate. I've been a fan of Abbie for over a year now and when I learnt her book featured a blind MC, I was ecstatic! I waited patiently for the audiobook, but because I had to wait so long which is not at all a criticism just in case it comes off that way) I learnt about things that occurred in the book and became incredibly nervous about how disability, especially blindness would be represented. Turns out I had every right to be. Ummm. What now? I understand that not everyone reads the directions their doctors give them, but to deliberately disregard what they said in that fashion didn’t sit well with me. And I was right to be worried. The story kind of read like a really intense outline??? I felt like the author kind of pounded the theme over my head with almost every paragraph, which was a little...distracting? Idk, I had some problems with the grammatical side of things, but it wasn’t too big of a deal. I swear to god if anyone ever disrespected my boundaries like this I would chase them out of my house with a frying pan. This is so far beyond not okay and it's disrespectful of people's boundaries.But still, I could have handled all of that, and still given this book 3 stars. 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. Things might get a bit spoilery, but I don’t recommend reading this book, so I don’t mind leaving those bits in. He was sweet until he became not sweet anymore. He became Obsessed with a capital O. Tessa this, Tessa that, Tessa everything.

I also don’t remember his last name. Ahem *clears throat* moving on, I thought Weston was sweet. Not the candy kind of sweet but sweet sweet. He was kind and helped Tessa and she in return calls him a typical teenage boy and ‘stubborn, infuriating, obnoxiously optimistic boy’. When I heard that Abbie was publishing a book, I was beyond excited. I’ve followed her off and on through the years and read a short story of hers a long while ago. I knew it would be good.It just got too descriptive there. He literally describes everything which I am pretty sure is impossible even for the inner monologue. This is not disability representation, this is representation of how able bodied people see disability with the language the community have been fighting so hard against for years Bitter from the past and still holding a grudge, Tessa is in no mood to give her mother a second chance. The holiday season may be a time of reconciliation with family, but Tessa believes her mother will never change. Why get close when she’s just going to leave again? Tessa realizes there is only one way to save this Christmas: avoid her mother as much as possible. Honestly, the entire premise is so shaky for me to begin with, because blind people get by just fine everyday, even running blogs and writing. So Tessa needing a proxy for that just seems... unrealistic? But if the not being able to type wasn't bad enough, when I first started listening and she explained how the only thing she could do with her IPHONE-ONE OF THE MOST ACCESSIBLE DEVICES IN THE WORD was ask Siri the weather, well I had to stop and take a breath and I was only a few minutes in.