Wild Blue Wonder

Author: Carlie Sorosiak 

Genre: Contemporary, Magical Realism
Original publication date: June 2018
Book Description (from Good Reads): Ask anyone in Winship, Maine, and they’ll tell you the summer camp Quinn’s family owns is a magical place. Paper wishes hang from the ceiling. Blueberries grow in the dead of winter. According to local legend, a sea monster even lurks off the coast. Mostly, there’s just a feeling that something extraordinary could happen there.

Like Quinn falling in love with her best friend, Dylan.

After the accident, the magic drained from Quinn’s life. Now Dylan is gone, the camp is a lonely place, and Quinn knows it’s her fault.

But the new boy in town, Alexander, doesn’t see her as the monster she believes herself to be. As Quinn lets herself open up again, she begins to understand the truth about love, loss, and monsters—real and imagined.

Thoughts:

This book was ot bad but not exactly what I was feeling like reading at the moment. 
It had a dual timeline, one told in the present and one told in the summer the year before when the bad thing happened.
This is usually a good idea but for some reason the whole drama of not knowing what really had happened, the fact that siblings could be so very mean to each other, the fact that lack of communication was the whole issue.
In hindsight after the big reveal and towards the last 4th of the book where the story started to make sense, I happen to enjoy my time more, still the whole first 3/4 of the story were very annoying for me. 
The main character was someone I could not connect with, I figured if I had the story would have been much more enjoyable. I just found her frustrating, self-centered and her family sucked for most of the storyline. 

It was a very realistic book, the characters, if not to my liking were behaving like anyone in grieving would they each were filled with guilt, with suppressed emotions and it as so well done that I was annoyed, frustrated and my mental stability was crumbling alongside theirs. The second time around I will see how I feel about it, maybe less frustrating now that I know the truth behind the story from the start XD

I gave this book 4.0 stars, again the ending made a lot of sense.

This book was used to cover challenges in both
Used-A-Bookathon
N.E.W.T.s Magical readathon

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