Review: "The Summer I Turned Pretty" by Jenny Han

Prompt Fulfilled:

Book I think should be turned into a movie

Stars:

4 ¾ /5

Synopsis:

Belly has always looked forward to summer.Summer means seeing Susannah and her sons, Jeremiah and Conrad, Belly’s childhood friends, crushes and much more. This summer, Belly has finally turned pretty (as the title would suggest) and is attracting the attention of her longtime love interest, along with a few others … Belly loves her time at Cousins Beach, but this year secrets (good and bad) threaten to change the haven she’s created for herself, for good.

Thoughts:

- Cute start to a cute series.

- Relationships between characters are well established with evident room for growth

- Flashbacks did their job and helped develop plot

Recommendations:

For readers who enjoy:

- romance novels

- development of relationships and characters over the course of a series

- reading from the point of view of a tomboy female protagonist