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Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler

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medium-paced

4.0

Initially I didn’t think I was going to like this, about 40% in I wasn’t totally into it and I was thinking about DNF’ing, it just wasn’t a book for me, for today BUT… then it started to pick up and I found myself more invested.

I think the main reason I wasn’t loving the first bit was because of the way the book is formatted and paced, it jumps back and forth in time in a way I didn’t totally love and the pacing throughout the book wasn’t as fluid as I would’ve liked. Later in the book however you get a bit more into fleshing out the characters and their emotions rather then just the background information.

The way the queer rep was done was pretty accurate I found,
The way at the end of the book, how Lara was saying that she knew it was something but at the time she couldn’t recognize that it was even a possibility, that it was more then them fooling around, and that she didn’t know she was even allowed to like her like that and how she got caught up in the ‘dream’ crush so she couldn’t realize what it actually was… yeah that’s an ouchie to read as a 20yo who didn’t realize it till 5 years later.
  But I really liked the way it showed someone who may not have fully recognized these feelings because of not understanding their sexuality at the time. 

I also enjoyed the little Arabic things in there, hearing kibbeh casually talked about was really nice 
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