We’ll Always Have Summer

We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
Published by Simon and Schuster on April 24, 2012
Genres: Young Adult, Family, Siblings, Love & Romance, Social Themes, Friendship, Dating & Relationships, Young Adult Fiction, Girls & Women, Romance, Contemporary, Dating & Sex
Pages: 291
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Can Belly make a final choice between Jeremiah and Conrad? Find out in the conclusion of the New York Times bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy from the author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (now a major motion picture!).
Belly has only ever been in love with two boys, both with the last name Fisher. And after being with Jeremiah for the last two years, she’s almost positive he is her soul mate. Almost. While Conrad has not gotten over the mistake of letting Belly go, Jeremiah has always known that Belly is the girl for him. So when Belly and Jeremiah decide to make things forever, Conrad realizes that it’s now or never—tell Belly he loves her, or lose her for good.
Belly will have to confront her feelings for Jeremiah and Conrad and face the inevitable: She will have to break one of their hearts.
This paperback edition features bonus content, including Conrad’s letters to Belly and an excerpt of Burn for Burn, the upcoming new book from Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian!

Hey!
I’m back with yet another book review. I’m proud that lately I have found a few fluffy summer reads that I can read quickly in order to catch up on my reading goal for the year. I’m embarrassingly super behind, but I did set a super high reading goal for this year, 100 books, even though I didn’t reach my reading goal last year. It was 2020, so let’s just keep with the high hopes for 2021 as we are nearly halfway through the year!

Let’s get back to the reason you are here. I recently finished the last book in Jenny Han’s Summer series We’ll Always Have Summer, which in case you are just finding this read my reviews on the other two books in the series here and here. I enjoyed the ending of this book and the realities in which Belly decides to get married and not get married. SPOILER!!!! I appreciated that Belly and Conrad ended up reconnecting while she was studying abroad in Spain and continued to keep in touch and properly develop their relationship into something where they could get married. I think Susannah’s letter to Belly on her wedding day was spot on and very reflective of the life that she wanted Belly to have.

I’m glad that Jenny Han did this series, it was a cute fun series and such a different vibe as compared to To All the Boys I’ve loved Before. I would still recommend both series and I can’t wait to read more from Jenny Han as an author and see what other things that she writes because I am loving her teenage girl romances. Let me know if you have read this series and what you thought of it. I hope to see you soon in another post!

It’s not summer without you

5 / 17 / 215 / 16 / 21

It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
Published by Simon and Schuster on April 5, 2011
Genres: Young Adult, Family, General, Social Themes, Friendship, Dating & Relationships, Young Adult Fiction, Girls & Women, Romance, Contemporary, Dating & Sex
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
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Belly finds out what comes after falling in love in this follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (now a major motion picture!), Jenny Han.
It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started—at Cousins Beach.

Hello Everyone!
I’m back with yet another review. I’m so excited to be jumping back into the world of Jenny Han again. I read the first book a couple of months back and you can read that review here. I was excited to try an older series from Jenny Han just to see if I loved it as much as To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Spoiler alert I actually do really enjoy this series, even though it’s super ugly cry worthy.

In the second book of the series, we find ourselves in the months after Susannah’s death dealing with the overwhelming grief between everyone we have met in the first book, not to mention the complicatedness that Conrad and Belly once had a relationship that might have been too complicated for him to stand at this point in his life. In this book we also get to see bits of Jeremiah’s perspective which is new and a refreshing thought to see his love for Belly and his relationship with his brother and how it has changed over the years.

I’m excited to dive into the third book soon and to see how the story shapes up. I actually don’t have a brother I’m rooting for yet because I know that both kinds of love Belly is experiencing is complicated and overwhelming. Let me know if you have read this book or this series. I would love to know which side you are on. I hope to see you in another post soon!

The Summer I turned Pretty

12 / 28 / 2012 / 21 / 20

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Published by Simon and Schuster on December 21, 2010
Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Dating & Sex, Romance, Contemporary, Girls & Women
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (now a major motion picture!), Jenny Han.
Some summers are just destined to be pretty.
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. 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. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

Hey!
We’re down to the final days of 2020 and that’s finally a relief after the crazy year that it has been. In an upcoming posts I will talk about my new resolutions, hopes and goals for the coming year as well as sharing several other things.

Right now though, let’s get back to the review that you are here for. If you have been following the blog for a while you know that I read Jenny Han’s To all the Boys I ever loved series back in 2018. I was on such a reading high back then. I recently found the first book in Jenny Han’s other series The Summer I turned pretty.

I love reading YA books because you can dive back into highschool and relive all those emotions all over again. I especially loved that this book is portrayed through a summer with flash backs from other summers. I loved that you really got to feel the summer and the enjoyment of a beach town and all that comes with it.

Let me know if you have read this book or if you have read any other books in Jenny Han’s repertoire. I can’t wait to tell you all about my goals and dreams for the upcoming year and other new things that maybe coming to the blog in the future. I can’t wait to really get back to blogging again. I hope that you’ll come back again to read more posts and see more things to come here in the future.