Every story needs a hero.
Every story needs a villain.
Every story needs a secret.
Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.
What really happened?
Someone knows.
Someone is lying.
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
YALSA Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Spring 2016 Kids’ Indie Next List
Amazon Editors' Best Books of the month, March 2016
“Tucholke walks a fine, spine-chilling line. . . An eerie, tangled story with plenty of questions: Who can be trusted? Who—or what—pulls the strings? . . . The book keeps readers wondering. Nicely constructed and planned, with unexpected twists to intrigue and entertain.”
—Kirkus starred review
“A dark, unpredictable mystery that . . . shimmer[s] with sumptuous descriptions and complicated psychologies. . . . Occult accoutrements, descriptions of the wild landscape, and a twisting-turning plot create an uncertain atmosphere that constantly shift readers’ perceptions of who is trustworthy.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The most captivating part of the narration is the shift in the characters’ voices as the story progresses. As we learn more about the true nature of the characters, the narrators slightly change the way they speak. This change is so subtle and well executed that the listener doesn’t realize it has happened until all of the story’s secrets are revealed—making for a captivating story in which nothing is exactly what it seems.”
—Booklist, starred review (refers to the audiobook edition)
"There’s so much to love in April Genevieve Tucholke’s mysterious young adult novel, which deals with teenage infatuation in all its destructive and creative glory. With elements of fairy tales and ghost stories woven throughout, Wink Poppy Midnight is named for the three young protagonists locked in a spooky love triangle. It’s a fast read sprinkled with fairy dust and haunting insight into the confusion, melancholy, and unshakable magic of the high school years."
---iBooks 25 Best Books of March