Reviews - The Girls of Summer

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396 reviews for:

The Girls of Summer

Katie Bishop

3.47 AVERAGE

lauralouiseb's review against another edition

3.25

medium-paced

danielle__2386's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kellyaraff's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

noala6624's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

torisbookspace's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jbrooks124's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Let me just say that this book was well done, but it was NOT for me.

Rachel's entire life has been shaped by her whirlwind romance when she was 17 and on holiday with a much older man, and the events that transpired during her time on the island. She's been fixated on that time in her life since it occurred, and as her "real life" becomes more lost to her, her obsession grows. Was it all really as beautiful and golden as she remembers it?

Katie Bishop does an incredible job of describing how unstoppable one feels at that nearly-adult age, how all-consuming love can be then and how it feels as though no one outside of your little "bubble" can understand. But the underlying darkness made me feel so... ill throughout, that I would struggle to really say that I enjoyed this book. Rachel is emotionally stunted by the events that she lived through, unable to realize exactly what happened to and around her, and that was a tough pill to swallow.