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Review: We'll Always Have Summer

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)

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 3

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