A perfect teenage-sommer love story
Belly can’t wait until it is summer again and she can go to the beach house. All winter she is counting the days until it’s time to return to her perfect summer place, where she will also see Susannah ...
Belly can’t wait until it is summer again and she can go to the beach house. All winter she is counting the days until it’s time to return to her perfect summer place, where she will also see Susannah and the boys again. She has known Jeremiah and Conrad since she was little and has spent her very first summer with them at Cousins. They have been everything between brother figures and summer crushes but this summer everything is different.
I must admit that I have watched the tv show before I read the first book but that did not spoil the story for me at all. „The summer I turned pretty“ is in my opinion the perfect example of a teenager summer love story. The characters are probably pretty immature, naive and a bit dramatic but who honestly expects anything else from a good YA story? The author has an amazing way of adding emotions to everything that is going on and therefore makes me enjoy this story even more. I could not put the book down at all. Honestly I could see a lot of myself as a teenager in Belly which made me like her even more. Don’t expect a deep literary masterpiece because then you will be disappointed. Take it as it is instead and you will find a fun, emotional summer lecture that reminds you of your own days as a teenager topped with an important lesson about family and loss
This book is the perfect summer YA love story with a lot of emotions and some important life lessons for every teenager.