Wink’s mother earns her living by reading tarot cards and tea leaves, and ghosts, seances, and possession of the living by the dead all play an important role in the story. Poppy’s recklessness, pride, and hardheartedness, her willing and conscious embrace of her own “cruel streak,” are a large part of that. There’s a dark, unsettling vibe to the story that deepens as it goes on. Who’s who?” - reminds us that there’s more to people, even simple and straightforward people, than meets the eye. But as he will gradually discover, Wink has secrets of her own. Wink is a girl from a big family, a girl who loves to read and dream, and Midnight sees an air of innocence about her that appeals strongly to him, as a complete change from what he’s used to. My freedom from Poppy.”Įspecially when he realizes that he now lives next door to Wink, a schoolmate who couldn’t be more different from Poppy. But when he and his father move out to the country, he sees it as his “first step to my freedom.
Midnight is a sensitive, imaginative boy who’s desperately in love with Poppy, despite her cruel treatment of him and others. The book is named after its three main characters, who take turns narrating, providing us with very different views of what’s going on. “The first time I slept with Poppy, I cried,” Midnight tells us in the first sentence of April Genevieve Tucholke’s “ Wink Poppy Midnight.” That opening sets the tone for what’s to come - a story that many young readers seem to find wild, rebellious, and exciting, given its bestselling status, but that many adults are likely to see as a book about kids who are in way over their heads. (Note: This review contains minor spoilers.)
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