Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.
Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.
Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?
Emaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going?
Sarah Dessen's devoted fans will welcome this story of romance, yearning, and, finally, empowerment. It could only happen in the summer.
My Rating
-3/5-
First off im not usually into this kind of book. I read a book by Sarah Dessen before though so when I came across this book I figured why not? I may not be into these kinds of books much but I did really like it.Sarah Dessen does a good job at turning something normal into something worth reading. Emaline doesn't exactly have big problems in fact they are pretty normal, but Sarah Dessen does a good job making you want to read.
I really loved the story and the characters. Kind of wish the characters were real, but since it is a real like book im sure there is people out there like the characters.
Also the ending was amazing. It was sort of happy but not like really an ending I was expecting. It was more of something that many teen girls would probably be able to relate to.
Anyways I thought it was a good book and will probably pick up another Sarah Dessen book in the future.
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