jeannine_ 's review for:

The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja

3.5

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The writing on this book was 4 stars, but the plot decisions were not. I am getting honestly quite tired of 'romance' genre books where the duo dated when they were young, broke up over a miscommunication about something in yet another instance of "we assume things and we don't communicate" with one another, and then go a decade or two or three without speaking, serendipitously reconnect, find they still have the hots for each other like nothing has changed, all the while never bringing the elephant in the room up. Then one person gets cold feet and calls the whole thing off because of said past incident, doesn't tell the other person why they're flipping out, so they break up AGAIN but then reconcile because one of them decides to be an adult and commmmunnnniiiiicaaaaaate. 

I sound cranky, I know. It's where I am right now though. And it's probably because I have been making questionable book choices lately, and / or maybe I need to avoid this genre entirely for a while. IDK.  

Would definitely read the author again - she can write.  But i would read the synopsis first!