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The Summer Pact

Emily Giffin

3.3 AVERAGE

mjones21's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

questionabletaste's review against another edition

2.5

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

scsst6's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

soccer8s's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional informative lighthearted mysterious 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: No

This was such a fun book. I love the characters, story was fun and great ending.

avid_read's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

beckybuckeye's review against another edition

3.5

emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

elcimarie's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

amandas_reading_nook's review against another edition

3.0

I really liked the first 20-30% of this book, and I thought it had some beautiful writing on loss and grief, but then it kept taking unexpected turns and I felt like I had no idea where we were headed. In general, I would say this book lacked focus. We start the story with Hannah and her failed engagement, then switch to Lainey and her myriad of issues. And that would be fine if you thought about this book as a character study of a group of friends, but we don't spend much time on Tyson so that dynamic is uneven. At a certain point, I found it hard to keep sympathizing with the characters as I found them increasingly frustrating. I kept questioning how they were even still friends as they seemed to keep their group together out of a misplaced sense of guilt rather than genuine affection for each other.

I also thought the relationship between Tyson and Lainey was forced and unnecessary.

Overall, not bad but not my favorite.