I got this book because it sounded good and i had read jenny han\’s other book, to all the boys i\’ve loved before, and i thought it was amazing.
Review #2 The Summer I Turned Pretty audiobook in series Summer Lockhart, When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon,Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler Possible Pairings: Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian, Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum, Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo, Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen, I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo, Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland, The Museum of Heartbreak by Meg Leder, The Boyfriend List by E. If, like me, you first discovered Jenny because of her Lara Jean books (which begin with To All the Boys I\’ve Loved Before), be sure to loop back to this series because it is just as sweet, just as romantic, and maybe even more epic with one of my favorite love triangles of all time.
The Summer I Turned Pretty should be required reading for anyone who is a fan of contemporary fiction, romance, and summertime. This book does double duty laying the groundwork for the rest of the trilogy while also offering a contained story as Belly tries to make sense of growing up, her ever-present (painfully obvious) feelings for Conrad, and the fact that summers may not stay the same for her family or the Fishers for much longer. The Summer I Turned Pretty is an emotional roller coaster as readers join Belly on all of the ups and downs in what becomes a pivotal summer.
Han\’s prose is as gentle and comforting as a warm summer breeze as Belly narrates this story and shares flashbacks from some of her favorite summer memories. The Summer I Turned Pretty is the first book in Han\’s Summer trilogy. But every summer, even what promises to be a perfect one, has to end in The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009) by Jenny Han. She can feel it in the air, see it in way Conrad and Jeremiah look at her like she\’s someone totally new. Almost as soon as they arrive, Belly knows that this summer is going to be different. But that\’s never made her love her summers, or Conrad, any less. As the youngest, Belly is used to being left out or made fun of by the boys. Belly\’s mom and Susannah Fisher have been friends for decades and Belly can\’t think of anything more natural than spending every summer in Cousins with Susannah and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. But summer has always been the important thing because summer means it\’s time to return to Cousins Beach and the house her family shares with the Fishers. Of course she and her brother have school the rest of the year, she has friends, she has an entire life. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer-they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between.īut one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.Belly\’s life has always been measured in summers. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.Ī place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. The first novel focuses on the summer where she turns "pretty" and is finally noticed by Conrad and Jeremiah as an actual girl and not a little sister figure.īelly measures her life in summers.
The other residents that live there include her mother's lifelong best friend, Susannah, and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. The story line is about young teenage girl named Isabel "Belly" Conklin and the summers she spends at a residence known as Cousin's Beach, with her mother and older brother, Steven. The Summer I Turned Pretty is the first novel in The Summer Series written by Jenny Han.