Series- The Summer I turned Pretty
Author- Jenny Han
Genre- Young adult, contemporary, romance
My rating- 5 stars
If you did not know, The Summer I turned Pretty is the first book in a trilogy, followed by It's Not Summer Without You and We'll Always Have Summer. I couldn't not review this trilogy, after falling in love with it last week. I zipped through all three books extremely quickly and by the end I was left wanting more! Now I can honestly say that this is one of my favourite contemporary romances that I have ever read.
I am going to tell you a little about the first one-
Every summer Belly (Isabel) goes to the summer house, with her Mother and Steven, with Susannah and her boys. Conrad and Jeremiah. She has been going to Cousins for as long as she can remember, but this year things are different. This is the summer she turns pretty.
I love, love, loved this trilogy with all my heart. If you are looking for a romance to dive into at the moment and have not yet read this, do it!
Looking over this trilogy, so much happens and with each book you get more attached to the characters. You will find yourself sad when Belly is sad, happy when she is happy and everything inbetween.
The character development- 5 stars. The plot- 5 stars. The TRILOGY- 5 stars.
Ofcourse with any book you will have problems, I know I had a few with this trilogy, but I can't really go into that without spoiling... So more on that later! Please read this amazing trilogy if it sounds like your thing, I recommend it highly (if you could not guess).
I am now left wanting to read all of Jenny Han's work... Especially her newest book, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, which annoyingly is not out in the UK for ages!
I am now going to go into some spoilers, so if you have not yet read this book yet, I recommend you stop reading, go read this trilogy, then come back! These spoilers are going to be for the whole trilogy, so if you have only read the first one then I will spoil you!
So, I will mainly be talking about the final book because that is obviously where it all finished...
My first thoughts... The ending.
Right, so I definitely shipped Belly with Conrad, the whole way through this trilogy. So the end was a definite good one for me, definitely let me know in the comments who you wanted her to end up with! I for one, am extremely happy with the ending. Han did it perfectly, without writing a huge epilogue. It was perfect. The whole meaning of the infinity symbol was used and I loved that! I adored how we got to read Susannah's letter to Belly on her wedding day, it was extremely sad.
I mentioned earlier that I did have a few problems. That was with the first chunk of this book. I didn't enjoy reading about Belly's engagement to Jeremiah as I thought it was a really stupid mistake. Ofcourse, this just built on Belly's character, but I was just screaming at the book, 'he cheated on you! Don't marry him!!' It made me mad... But that doesn't mean I hated it.
I'm not sure about you, but personally I loved reading from Conrad's perspective through this book, it shed a different light on the story. Also, reading from Jeremiah's perspective in It's Not Summer Without You had the same effect.
I am also going to say how heart breaking the start of It's Not Summer Without You is, Susannah being dead, Belly not being a Cousins, her heart break. It just made me so sad. When her and Jeremiah were searching for Conrad, I was hoping so much that he would be at the summer house... I honestly missed it as much as Belly did!
And now for... Conrad.
Oh, Conrad... You truly are amazing. I know in the second book at times he came across as a bit of a jerk... But he redeemed himself 10 times over. In the final book, he was just so sweet... Him confessing his love for Belly was one of my favourite parts of the book. Also, when he found out that Jeremiah had cheated on Belly... Oh, Conrad...
So, that will be the end of my discussion/ review, if you have anything to say, definitely let me know in the comments! I am super excited to read another of Jenny Han's books, this trilogy was amazing.
Thankyou for reading,
-Darcy
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