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A review by karis_rogerson
The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood
5.0
5/5 STARS
YOU GUYS. I honestly don't have the words for how good this book was? It's so difficult to balance multiple characters, giving them each unique personalities, inciting incidents, conflicts, desires, and even harder to do so in a way where readers will be able to keep them separate, remember who is who. I think of LITTLE WOMEN when I think of a book that did it well, and that book's pace is so much slower than this one, and the timeline so much more spread out. The fact this book accomplished that so well, and was so delightful at the same time, is just...
Honestly? Just read it yourself, because I can't praise it highly enough. Each of the sisters is going through a summer of transition, and it's at times painful, but it's also beautiful, hopeful, and lovely to see their bonds in action.
YOU GUYS. I honestly don't have the words for how good this book was? It's so difficult to balance multiple characters, giving them each unique personalities, inciting incidents, conflicts, desires, and even harder to do so in a way where readers will be able to keep them separate, remember who is who. I think of LITTLE WOMEN when I think of a book that did it well, and that book's pace is so much slower than this one, and the timeline so much more spread out. The fact this book accomplished that so well, and was so delightful at the same time, is just...
Honestly? Just read it yourself, because I can't praise it highly enough. Each of the sisters is going through a summer of transition, and it's at times painful, but it's also beautiful, hopeful, and lovely to see their bonds in action.