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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 stars! I sped through this one!! This is a story of three friends who overcome a lot of shared grief and trauma early on in the book and the story takes place 10 years after. I like the multiple povs but did feel like the story would just melt from one character to another I wished there was a bit more distinction. This was a light plot, there was a bit event in the beginning and things happen in the end but I wanted a bit more from the story. I did love how the group of friends stayed so close for a decade and really had each other back and wanted the best for each other. The descriptions of the places they traveled were great. There’s talk of death, suicide, grief and alcoholism throughout the book. Would recommend as an easy, quick read especially on the beach!
Review
The Summer Pact : Emily Giffin
Format: ebook (NetGalley)
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine Books
Publication Date:July 9, 2024
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
After tragedy strikes a group of friends in college, the 3 remaining friends make a pact to always be there for each other during hard times. The book follows these 3 friends a decade later when their lives completely change and they decide to take a spontaneous vacation. The book is filled with romance, sadness, and friendship. This book is all about finding your true self. It changes narration between each of the 3 friends giving the reader a chance get to know each character equally. This book also touches on some darker topics such as suicide and addiction.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book, but I thought it ended way too abruptly. I wanted more of an ending for all of the characters that were built.
Thank you to Random House Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC!
The Summer Pact : Emily Giffin
Format: ebook (NetGalley)
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine Books
Publication Date:July 9, 2024
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
After tragedy strikes a group of friends in college, the 3 remaining friends make a pact to always be there for each other during hard times. The book follows these 3 friends a decade later when their lives completely change and they decide to take a spontaneous vacation. The book is filled with romance, sadness, and friendship. This book is all about finding your true self. It changes narration between each of the 3 friends giving the reader a chance get to know each character equally. This book also touches on some darker topics such as suicide and addiction.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book, but I thought it ended way too abruptly. I wanted more of an ending for all of the characters that were built.
Thank you to Random House Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC!
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
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
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
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
You guys, this book was so hard for me to finish. Not just because I’m in law school and have kids but because I literally had to force myself to finish it even when I was down to only 70 pages. I’ve loved all of Emily’s past books and this one just wasn’t for me. It seems like she wanted to write a book about her feelings on politics (which we are completely aligned) and then she tried to stuff it into the 4 corners of a romance novel about friendship with a token black friend who she also wrote for, in first person, as a white woman. Tyson’s character was completely out of place to me, it was clumsy and awkward. The scene where he explains to his friends of 20 years that he can’t just go knocking on doors in a white neighborhood in Texas… ICK. If they were truly his friends they wouldn’t have needed to be reminded throughout the book that things for him were different in society. They would just know. It honestly made me question how Emily got this book approved and then I remembered it’s likely because everyone around her reading this and thinking it was so profound and woke was probably a white woman from the suburbs, or a white woman in a tall building in NYC who thought “omg this is exactly what we need right now, a story about a group of 3 white women and a black man who are all besties!”
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes