Reviews - The Girls of Summer

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396 reviews for:

The Girls of Summer

Katie Bishop

3.47 AVERAGE

samireads's review against another edition

3.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

natte800's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 40%

It was so slow . Takes like a full paragraph to explain something that could have been described in one sentence. Very much general fiction but still I didn't like the pacing

elizabethbrock's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

niatate's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jlynnautumn's review against another edition

4.0

Young love, first love, a perfect summer. That's how Rachel looks back on the summer she spent in Greece. The summer where she met Allistair. Now 16 years later, she's back on that same island with her husband.

The book is told in dual timelines between Then and Now. Then, Rachel feels like she finally found a place where she fits in and belongs. She looks back on this time as being the summer that change her life, and in some ways started it because it's the summer Allistair loved her. Now, Rachel reflects back on that time and how it changed her life, and what she became. When she reconnects with her summer love, she learns her memories may be jaded and he might not be the man she thought he was.

Overall, this was a good read. It took me a little bit to truly get hooked into the story and at times wondered where the storyline was going, but once it got there, I couldn't put it down. It was a one day read for me.