Review: We'll Always Have Summer

We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Oh my fricken god!!!!!!!!!!!! This book was the biggest rollercoaster ever. One second I was rooting for Jere, the next second, Con, then Jere and so on and it felt weird because I could FEEL Han manipulating me into feeling EXACTLY what she wanted me to, when she wanted me to.

This was such a weird series. This is the most hard core love triangle I've ever read. Well... second place would probably be from the Hunger Games so that's not really saying much, actually. This series just felt really different for some reason. It was very different from what I was expecting. If you read my Reading Notes under this review you'll be able to see me react and predict things as I was reading the book, and if you've already read the book you might get a kick out of it. If you haven't read it, be alert because some things I say are kind of spoilery.

This was probably my least favorite just because it was pretty slow, I felt. I mean, I was still reading like ten pages every time I blinked my eyes, but it was kind of dull because of what it was about. The whole book was leading up to the big ending and what happens, but the leading up activities weren't entertaining. I guess it's not supposed to be about WHAT they're doing, rather WHO they do it with and what they say to eachother. What, ever. My feelings stand.

Now to talk about how I felt about the end of the love triangle!! Spoilers, obvi!

(view spoiler)[Throughout the previous two books I was never rooting for any particular guy to be with Belly. I felt mostly the same towards both of them. The start of this book made me stand strong on Team Jeremiah. Conrad was a huge dick, and it was all his fault he wasted the decade when Belly was still devoted to him. I felt no pity for him whatsoever when he was longing for Belly.

Then Jere cheated on Belly... and I still don't know what to think about that because I guess they were technically broken up... If they hadn't gotten back together it wouldn't have mattered but they did so it does. I know I would have reacted the same if I was in Belly's situation. Then he asked her to marry him and then the whole book I had a bad feeling in my stomach.

I thought their reason for getting married was pretty legit at first: If they already know they really love each other and they want to spend the rest of their lives together, why wait? So I was on their side. But then Con... friggen Con had to get all mopey and be like "But I still looooove Belly!!" and it just made me mad because Belly and Jeremiah ARE GETTING MARRIED!!!!! I didn't want anything to mess that up even if I knew that it might not end well.

Eventually I started agreeing with what everyone was saying. What harm would there be in waiting? Maybe that was the right thing to do after all. Conrad also started pulling at my heartstrings again, which I didn't like. At this point I was just really mad at Conrad.

I started thinking up a whole bunch of theories which you can read in my Reading Notes (marked as ********SPOILERS********), and I kept switching who I thought Belly was going to end up with. In the end I didn't guess it would be Conrad. Since the first book I thought it would be Jeremiah. I guess by the time we got to the end I liked Conrad, but I feel like we just have too much history. He has too big of a douche bag record, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to fully forgive him. Same with Jeremiah because of his wandering penis. (hide spoiler)]

I feel the need to reiterate how weird I feel like these books are, but it's not in the standard weird way. Maybe unsettling would be a better word? Nah, that's not it either. I ended up liking this series a lot more than I thought I would. It just made me sad because I started reading them a week before I start school (which is now tomorrow) and it just made me feel sad that Belly's in the start of her summer for most of it, and I'm right at the end of mine.


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Book 1
Book 2
Book 3

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