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The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han

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katiea714's review

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emotional hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book because I loved Jenny Han’s other series (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before) and when I saw that this has become a series on Amazon Prime – I was even more intrigued to read it. Hopefully the TV series is better than the book because this was questionable.

This book follows fifteen-year-old Isabel who is known as Belly. She a spend every summer at her family friend’s beach house with her mum and brother and her mum’s best friend. There’s a swimming pool, the private stretch of sandy beach and the two boys that she has known forever. There is Conrad who she’s been in love with forever but he’s unavailable and been moody all summer and then there is Jeremiah who’s the only one who seem to pay her attention and who is her best friend. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been along. This book is a young adult contemporary romance.

I loved Jenny’s writing style in this book and how went an inside joke or a memory surfaces – she writes about what that inside joke was or what summer that related to in the next chapter. I think the storyline was okay . . . I was just expecting more, and it just never happen – maybe I was reading this late considering it originally came out in 2009 and I read this for the first time 13 years later but I just didn’t vibe with it. Belly was the first main character to annoy the hell out of me and she just seems so selfish, and I’ve put that to how young she is but it was just one of those things. I would have loved to see more of Conrad and Jeremiah and would have loved a couple of chapters from their point of view because you didn’t know Jeremiah liked Belly until he told her, and Conrad didn’t seem interested in Belly until the end. So, I would have loved to see a couple of chapters of them pining of her and then maybe that would have made it a bit better.

I recommend this to anyone who is just starting out reading young adult romance or who wants to read a summer novel. Let’s hope the next one in the series is better than this one.

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