Let's just say off the bat that I don't like this type of book. I prefer to read literature that's slightly more intellectual than describing the boys as "Abercrombie-hot" and throwing out a bunch of classy brand names to describe a girl's wardrobe. SUMMER GIRLS has both of those and more. The characters are all "types": the sporty-hot chick, the glam-hot chick, the offbeat-hot chick, the playboy-hot guy, the sporty-hot guy, the wholesome-boy-next-door-hot guy...have I been clear enough yet?
I don't even mind character types as long as they are done well, as long as we can put ourselves in their shoes and see where they are coming from in their thoughts and actions. But you don't really get to do that with SUMMER GIRLS. Individually I can believe each of these girls' stories and maybe even enjoy them, but when you throw them together and insist that they go from practically strangers to BFFs in the course of several very turbulent weeks without adequately exploring the dynamics of their friendships and family, well, I have a problem.
Still, the summer is coming up, and Hailey Abbott's series has done well in years past. SUMMER GIRLS will find its audience in the hordes of preteen girls who want to live vicariously--read: have random hookups, get their hearts broken by summer flings, and wrap everything up neatly at the end of the season--while in reality they're stuck on an unexciting beach with their unexciting, same-old, same-old family.
I don't even mind character types as long as they are done well, as long as we can put ourselves in their shoes and see where they are coming from in their thoughts and actions. But you don't really get to do that with SUMMER GIRLS. Individually I can believe each of these girls' stories and maybe even enjoy them, but when you throw them together and insist that they go from practically strangers to BFFs in the course of several very turbulent weeks without adequately exploring the dynamics of their friendships and family, well, I have a problem.
Still, the summer is coming up, and Hailey Abbott's series has done well in years past. SUMMER GIRLS will find its audience in the hordes of preteen girls who want to live vicariously--read: have random hookups, get their hearts broken by summer flings, and wrap everything up neatly at the end of the season--while in reality they're stuck on an unexciting beach with their unexciting, same-old, same-old family.
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