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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read this during summer days, sitting in the pool, and it was just the perfect vibe 🥹
There were moments I loved the characters, and others when I disliked them. And that's what made them so real. No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes and that doesn't mean they are undeserving of love.
Mary Jane was an absolute delight and I loved following her coming-of-age jorney 🫶🏻
There were moments I loved the characters, and others when I disliked them. And that's what made them so real. No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes and that doesn't mean they are undeserving of love.
Mary Jane was an absolute delight and I loved following her coming-of-age jorney 🫶🏻
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A fantastic coming of age story set sometime in the 1970s, Baltimore.
Mary Jane is 14 years old and going to work as the summer nanny for the five year old daughter of a doctor and his wife. Mary Jane has very conservative parents who go to church every Sunday, thank President Ford for the food on the table every night, drink lemonade and iced tea at the Elksridge Country Club and can’t imagine a family where the mom doesn’t cook and clean her days away.
The Cones—the family Mary Jane will be working for—are not that. They are free spirits, with hippie clothes and a loose definition of tidy. Dr Cone is not a doctor of the body, but of the mind. In an amazing move he clears his entire schedule to treat one man for the summer—rock star Jimmy Bedinger. Jimmy and his movie star wife, Sheba, move in with the Cones, casting a shimmer and shine over the entire summer.
Jimmy is definitely supposed to mirror the likes of Mick Jagger, Robert Plant, Roger Daltry. Sheba is 100% modeled after Cher.
Mary Jane learns all about life, love, and sexuality that summer. She starts to look at everything differently, including her parents and their values. She is living the dream until the walls crumble down and her disapproving parents forbid her return.
Even though Jimmy was a dyed in the wool rock star, I got Bob Dylan vibes from the story. Mixed quite well with Blood on the Tracks.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mary Jane is 14 years old and going to work as the summer nanny for the five year old daughter of a doctor and his wife. Mary Jane has very conservative parents who go to church every Sunday, thank President Ford for the food on the table every night, drink lemonade and iced tea at the Elksridge Country Club and can’t imagine a family where the mom doesn’t cook and clean her days away.
The Cones—the family Mary Jane will be working for—are not that. They are free spirits, with hippie clothes and a loose definition of tidy. Dr Cone is not a doctor of the body, but of the mind. In an amazing move he clears his entire schedule to treat one man for the summer—rock star Jimmy Bedinger. Jimmy and his movie star wife, Sheba, move in with the Cones, casting a shimmer and shine over the entire summer.
Jimmy is definitely supposed to mirror the likes of Mick Jagger, Robert Plant, Roger Daltry. Sheba is 100% modeled after Cher.
Mary Jane learns all about life, love, and sexuality that summer. She starts to look at everything differently, including her parents and their values. She is living the dream until the walls crumble down and her disapproving parents forbid her return.
Even though Jimmy was a dyed in the wool rock star, I got Bob Dylan vibes from the story. Mixed quite well with Blood on the Tracks.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3.5 stars!
i really liked this book. though, i'm not sure where a lot of people got the 'daisy jones & the six' vibes from, as i didn't get that vibe at all. aside of that, i honestly don't have anything else to comment on.
i thought this story had a very good ending!
i really liked this book. though, i'm not sure where a lot of people got the 'daisy jones & the six' vibes from, as i didn't get that vibe at all. aside of that, i honestly don't have anything else to comment on.
i thought this story had a very good ending!
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Antisemitism
Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Eating disorder, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Abandonment