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Everything that happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now.
Every year Isabel spends a perfect summer at her family friends' house. There's the swimming pool at night, the private stretch of sandy beach . . . and the two boys. Unavailable, aloof Conrad - who she's been in love with forever - and friendly, relaxed Jeremiah, the only one who's ever really paid her any attention.
But this year something is different. They seem to have noticed her for the first time. It's going to be an amazing summer - and one she'll never forget . . .
About the Author
Jenny Han was born in Richmond, Virginia, and later studied at the University of North Carolina. She now lives in New York where she works part-time as a children's librarian, in between writing her new series for teens.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I loved this book it is just right for the summer holidays. It is romantic and funny, it is perfect for teenage girls.
For Belly summer is the best part of the year and she has been spending it the same way for as long as she can remember at her two best friends house Conrad and Jeremiah, who are older than her and are basically her brothers, but this summer everything comes together for Belly and it is the most romantic summer so far.
A happy sunny book- read during the holidays not when you return to school.
For Belly summer is the best part of the year and she has been spending it the same way for as long as she can remember at her two best friends house Conrad and Jeremiah, who are older than her and are basically her brothers, but this summer everything comes together for Belly and it is the most romantic summer so far.
A happy sunny book- read during the holidays not when you return to school.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book encompasses all that is needed in a perfect summer read. It was a delightfully light read and thoroughly enjoyable. Having never read any Jenny Han before I wasn't really sure what I was letting myself in for when I first picked this up to read but I was pleasantly surprised and was a welcome relief from the vast amounts of paranormal romance and dystopian novels I have been reading lately (which don't get me wrong I love but it was a nice change).
I liked that Belly, the main character of the book, was such a teenager. The author captured quite well the struggle of a 15 year old in a world where she is trying to be grown up and deal with all the new emotions going on in her head balanced alongside the need to still act like a little kid at times. I loved that sometimes trying to hold it all together got too much for her and she threw a bit of a tantrum and a sulk but then spent time after than feeling that she'd let herself down. For me the best thing about Belly was that she wasn't perfect and was still trying to find her own little niche in the world she was growing up into.
I loved the setting of the book. This idyllic and huge beach house with a pool by the sea. It added to the story and the summeryness of it all.
The boys in this book did drive me a little crazy. I don't quite agree with Belly on the whole Conrad vs Jeremiah debate (I'm probably too much of a softie) and found Cam to be a bit too smarmy for my liking.
I also liked the relationship Belly had with both her mother and her mother's best friend and the comparison between the the two. As someone who could never quite do the girly chit chat with her own mother (especially when we lived under the same roof) I found the comparison to be quite poignant.
I really enjoyed that the book occasionally had chapters which were scenes from summers Belly had previously spent at the beach house. I love it when books do this as a way to fill you in with the backstory of the characters involved.
All in all a fab little book which, while not mind blowing, captures the spirit of growing up and summery holidays brilliantly well and is an awesomely engrossing page turner.
I liked that Belly, the main character of the book, was such a teenager. The author captured quite well the struggle of a 15 year old in a world where she is trying to be grown up and deal with all the new emotions going on in her head balanced alongside the need to still act like a little kid at times. I loved that sometimes trying to hold it all together got too much for her and she threw a bit of a tantrum and a sulk but then spent time after than feeling that she'd let herself down. For me the best thing about Belly was that she wasn't perfect and was still trying to find her own little niche in the world she was growing up into.
I loved the setting of the book. This idyllic and huge beach house with a pool by the sea. It added to the story and the summeryness of it all.
The boys in this book did drive me a little crazy. I don't quite agree with Belly on the whole Conrad vs Jeremiah debate (I'm probably too much of a softie) and found Cam to be a bit too smarmy for my liking.
I also liked the relationship Belly had with both her mother and her mother's best friend and the comparison between the the two. As someone who could never quite do the girly chit chat with her own mother (especially when we lived under the same roof) I found the comparison to be quite poignant.
I really enjoyed that the book occasionally had chapters which were scenes from summers Belly had previously spent at the beach house. I love it when books do this as a way to fill you in with the backstory of the characters involved.
All in all a fab little book which, while not mind blowing, captures the spirit of growing up and summery holidays brilliantly well and is an awesomely engrossing page turner.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fifteen year old Isabel - a.k.a. Belly, unfortunately - has spent every summer of her life at Cousins Beach with her mother and big brother Steven at the beach house of the Fisher family: her mom's best friend Susannah and her sons Conrad and Jeremiah. Despite her adoration for the Fisher boys, Belly has always been a little bit left out as the only girl, but those moments when she's connected with them have been treasured highlights. Her summers there are everything to her. She's always loved seemingly out-of-her-league Conrad, the oldest of the two brothers, although she did share her first kiss with the younger and more amiable Jeremiah. This year, with her sixteenth birthday looming, she has a third love interest in the form of endearingly geeky Cam. Over the course of the story, the reader is kept guessing about which boy - if any - she'll end up with at the close of the summer.
Although this may sound like your average summer romance, it soon becomes clear that this is a story with substance. As Belly gets her first taste of what it's like for the boys to notice her - not just any boys, but these boys, the ones she's always wanted - the tension rises around her, but maybe not for the reasons she thinks. And though this is a book about one girl's flirtation with three boys in the course of one summer, it's all in the spirit of discovery and genuine connection. It's a journey. Belly has always felt that she's just waiting for summer to arrive, but if this is the last of the summers these people will share at Cousins Beach like this, what comes next? Who will she be?
The Summer I Turned Pretty is written with a sense of memory so strong that you can almost taste it; so tangible that all the summers before seem to echo in this place, this summer. Narrator Belly speaks with a laidback but intimate voice that at times tells the reader rather more than she is noticing herself, as she switches between the present and events of previous summers spent at an idyllic beach house with everyone who matters most to her. Belly's awareness that this one is likely to be the last that all of them spend there lends the tale a nostalgic flavour, even as events unfold in the here and now, that heightens every emotion. It's a tale of heart-bursting joy, the bittersweetness of first love, and the heavy weight of an approaching loss.
Although this may sound like your average summer romance, it soon becomes clear that this is a story with substance. As Belly gets her first taste of what it's like for the boys to notice her - not just any boys, but these boys, the ones she's always wanted - the tension rises around her, but maybe not for the reasons she thinks. And though this is a book about one girl's flirtation with three boys in the course of one summer, it's all in the spirit of discovery and genuine connection. It's a journey. Belly has always felt that she's just waiting for summer to arrive, but if this is the last of the summers these people will share at Cousins Beach like this, what comes next? Who will she be?
The Summer I Turned Pretty is written with a sense of memory so strong that you can almost taste it; so tangible that all the summers before seem to echo in this place, this summer. Narrator Belly speaks with a laidback but intimate voice that at times tells the reader rather more than she is noticing herself, as she switches between the present and events of previous summers spent at an idyllic beach house with everyone who matters most to her. Belly's awareness that this one is likely to be the last that all of them spend there lends the tale a nostalgic flavour, even as events unfold in the here and now, that heightens every emotion. It's a tale of heart-bursting joy, the bittersweetness of first love, and the heavy weight of an approaching loss.
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A M A Z I N G !
Perfect summer read, its something any teenage girl can relate in some way to. This book is really quite easy to read in the fact that the chapters are very short and the type is... Read more
Published 6 days ago by eausolovely
The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy Review
OH MY GOSH! i could not put these books down. i finished the first book in 2 days then as soon as i finished it i bought the second book and stayed up all night till i had finished... Read more
Published 18 days ago by heyheyhey
Hmmmmm
I havnt even read much into this book and although its not boring its not as captivating as books i normally read. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Paperclips
AMAZING!!
I really love this book- it is the best summer read, and one I read on holiday. When it started off slightly american I wasnt sure what I was going to think of it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by SummerBaby97
A good read
My teenage daughter read this book and thoroughly enjoyed, this book will make you both laugh and cry, but it's worth it in the end.
Published 4 months ago by Kat
ONE WORD: AMAZING!!!
This book was one of the best books i have ever read. I loved it so much! It made me love reading again! Read more
Published 5 months ago by DaisyBee
Flat and Dull
I have tried a number of times over the past three months to read this book. After many praising reviews I, originally, couldn't wait to be thrown into a fluffy summer romance. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Becky L
The summer of growing up
OH MY GOD!!! Next time I need a good cry I will pick up either this book or "It's Not Summer Without You" and I will re-read them and weep! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Emma
Predictable, but okay nonetheless.
Even from the second I finished reading the blurb, I knew who she was going to end up with. The first chapter further confirmed it, and though the story was incredibly predictable,... Read more
Published 6 months ago by a_teenage_reader
Excellent
Very quick postage , is a very good seller . I would reccomend to all my friends . An I will definitely buy of them again
Published 8 months ago by Lauradin2040
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