One summer will challenge everything the Garrett sisters thought they knew about themselves--and each other in this captivating new novel by Jessica Spotswood. As the oldest, Des shoulders a lot of responsibility for her family and their independent bookstore. Except it's hard to dream big when she's so busy taking care of everyone else. Vi has a crush on the girl next door. It makes her happy and nervous, but Cece has a boyfriend...so it's not like her feelings could ever be reciprocated, right? Kat lands the lead in the community theater's summer play, but the drama spills offstage when her ex and his new girlfriend are cast too. Can she get revenge by staging a new romance of her own? Bea and her boyfriend are heading off to college together in the fall, just like they planned when they started dating. But Bea isn't sure she wants the same things as when she was thirteen... Told through four alternating points of view, readers will laugh, cry, and fall in love alongside the Garrett girls.
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The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls
One summer will challenge everything the Garrett sisters thought they knew about themselves--and each other in this captivating new novel by Jessica Spotswood. As the oldest, Des shoulders a lot of responsibility for her family and their independent bookstore. Except it's hard to dream big when she's so busy taking care of everyone else. Vi has a crush on the girl next door. It makes her happy and nervous, but Cece has a boyfriend...so it's not like her feelings could ever be reciprocated, right? Kat lands the lead in the community theater's summer play, but the drama spills offstage when her ex and his new girlfriend are cast too. Can she get revenge by staging a new romance of her own? Bea and her boyfriend are heading off to college together in the fall, just like they planned when they started dating. But Bea isn't sure she wants the same things as when she was thirteen... Told through four alternating points of view, readers will laugh, cry, and fall in love alongside the Garrett girls.
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Reviewed by hbicsThis is such a weird book to review for me, because it had all the elements of a book I should have loved? But I was just annoyed and bored and disappointed the whole way through. I can envision the same/a mostly similar story written in a way I would have easily given four stars to, but this... was not it. I think one thing is that I'm probably too old for this book, that it'd read better for a 14/15 year old, so I'm reviewing it with that caveat. I love love love, that each of the perspectives had queer characters (very tired of the four friends/four sisters narratives where only 1 is gay/bi and there is no one else to be found anywhere), and I have no real qualms about how any were written (haven't read much f/bi!m to compare it to, but I loved that love interest). The f/f romance was adorable though deeply deeply timestamped in '15-year old girl on tumblr in 2018', but if you know 0 f/f YA literature it does give you a handful of recommendations. That said, I was annoyed at how in order to tie up the ending, antagonist characters got oversimplified and discounted. I was annoyed at how a lot of the perspectives felt like reading a series of tumblr discourse posts. I was annoyed that nothing felt as fleshed out as it should be. That <spoiler> Des and Erik</spoiler> became people who see the world in black and white instead of grey at the very last second and completely shun characters they'd previously been more empathetic towards. That the Kat's romance was adorable but put together so quickly and haphazardly and somewhat lack-luster (I think I was truly giddy about it for maaaybe two pages, but the feeling was there). I'm not necessarily saying don't read it if it interests you, because I do think this book does things of value (though in a very introductory way, thus the recommendation for younger YA readers), but I just expected way more from it even though I went into it not expecting much.