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A review by glindaaa
Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories by Stephanie Perkins
2.0
I'm entirely not so sure if I like owning this book at this point. Where I didn't like two stories in the winter edition because I hurried along: this book I didn't like in general anymore, so badly that the three stories that I liked couldn't even fix it anymore. I know it's a bit big and mean but it's just not what I expected ESPECIALLY compared to the winter one. Another note on that: it should have been nice to know to know you have to read that one first. I did but that made me lucky if you ask me.
It's just that these stories were too ridiculous for my liking. It probably happens to depend on the writers that came along. I expected easy as cupcake love stories, not something about monsters and zombies, which I don't hate for your information I'm a fantasy lover. I just didn't like all that was written down or it was too much.
Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail – 3 stars
The End of Love – 2 stars
Last Stand at the Cinegore – 3 stars
Sick Pleasure – 1 star
In Ninety minutes, Turn North – 4 stars
Souvenirs – 2 stars
Inertia – 4 stars
Love is the last Resort- 3 stars
Good Luck and Farewell – 1 stars
Brand New Attraction – 4 stars
A Thousand Ways this could go Wrong – 1 star
The Map of Tiny Perfect Everything – 2 stars
The first story was rather cute, I didn’t understand the first part in the beginning but boy did it make sense in the end and made me dislike the whole story at the end. The same goes for the last Stand at the Cinegore. It all started cute, I liked the whole setting until the movie came to life and it became a super stupid sappy movie scenario that I do not intend to watch and avoid with all costs of my life. This was both ridiculous that it hurt my feelings, I am a fantasy lover but this was utterly bullshit if you ask me. Which made me drop down in the stars, perhaps it would be more fun if it had not been in a short story book and not a short story book that was on romance because the plot was perhaps too thick to simply end in 30 to 40 pages.
The End of Love wasn’t bad but just when I was writing this review I couldn’t remember the whole story, which is why I gave it two stars. And Sick Pleasure started off nice until she slept with another guy because she wanted to be no virgin anymore but the right guy wasn’t available. If there are girls out there like that: believe me I will dislike that way of thinking from you. Because.. cuts herself off you know never mind. I’m not going into this, it’s just simply ridiculous! (I'm sorry if you felt offended but this is my opinion).
When I came to the story of Perkins, I should have known based on the title that it was about Marigold and North, for those of you that read my review on twelve christmas days, you all know that I would want to know more about Marigold and North so this story definitely made up for that. Obviously it's still short even the both of them together but I believe it is enough. I can live with this. This is the reference though that it should be nice to know that this book comes in second and you should read the winter version at first because of the time wise. I expected a whole different story nothing related, but I'm not going to complain because I liked it.
Souvenirs is like The End of Love.. what was it all about again? Some guys that were not really a couple and yet they were and there was this best boyfriend award that the coward didn't dare to give at the point that it might be important. Well yeah I don't know entirely what I thought of the story. I liked the main character, the one whose p.o.v. we follow but that's about it. The whole setting was a bit vague, why Keith was now Kieth. I don't know. Maybe it's that, all with all in general again perhaps too short to understand and like in my opinion.
Inertia was nice, as I half expected, which is bad to expect things from writers but I expected this story to be interesting. Definitely another soppy love movie that I might try to avoid with my entire being but we can't have everything. The whole future idea of being able to have a last visit before you perhaps die in surgery is an interesting factor what made the story better than it else had been and a bit too lovely but not going to complain again. I liked the characters that made it a lot easier again.
I rated the Love in the Last Resort 3 stars even though it was obvious what was happening, but it was super funny. I liked the writing style and how it ended up to be with the little boy that never talked, well at least he knew how to write but still it was obvious, it was the setting that made it a little less "everything-is-the-same-in-romance-all-the-time" so that was a bonus that made it a bit more fun.
Good Luck and Farewell, my only thoughts are: what was the point?
Brand new Attraction was funny, again something I wouldn't expect in here something about Twelve Summer Days and Summer Zombie Nights but it was a nice idea and again something completely different from the usual information that was going on and with a few twists and turns that didn't make it all focus on Lulu and Lucas which was nice. Even the reference to the good fitting names was in there, even when I thought it myself, which made it extra funny. The adventures of a travelling Evil Valentine Carnaval sounds fun.
A Thousand Ways this Could go Wrong I didn't like Annie, I didn't like Griffin which sounds very mean considering what he explains, which is nice! Because I don't think many people understand what it means and how it works but I know a few people and yes they are particular to hang out with, bit difficult but if we all be nice, we'll manage.
A Map of Tiny Perfect Everything: I know I should read this again at another point because of twelve days that I basically didn't like much, as I flew through the three/four stories I liked, it felt a bit dreadful and I was totally done with it. So this one gets the benefit of the doubt because I did start and I did finish but it didn't really have a point in my mind which is that for now it has two stars.
It's just that these stories were too ridiculous for my liking. It probably happens to depend on the writers that came along. I expected easy as cupcake love stories, not something about monsters and zombies, which I don't hate for your information I'm a fantasy lover. I just didn't like all that was written down or it was too much.
Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail – 3 stars
The End of Love – 2 stars
Last Stand at the Cinegore – 3 stars
Sick Pleasure – 1 star
In Ninety minutes, Turn North – 4 stars
Souvenirs – 2 stars
Inertia – 4 stars
Love is the last Resort- 3 stars
Good Luck and Farewell – 1 stars
Brand New Attraction – 4 stars
A Thousand Ways this could go Wrong – 1 star
The Map of Tiny Perfect Everything – 2 stars
The first story was rather cute, I didn’t understand the first part in the beginning but boy did it make sense in the end and made me dislike the whole story at the end. The same goes for the last Stand at the Cinegore. It all started cute, I liked the whole setting until the movie came to life and it became a super stupid sappy movie scenario that I do not intend to watch and avoid with all costs of my life. This was both ridiculous that it hurt my feelings, I am a fantasy lover but this was utterly bullshit if you ask me. Which made me drop down in the stars, perhaps it would be more fun if it had not been in a short story book and not a short story book that was on romance because the plot was perhaps too thick to simply end in 30 to 40 pages.
The End of Love wasn’t bad but just when I was writing this review I couldn’t remember the whole story, which is why I gave it two stars. And Sick Pleasure started off nice until she slept with another guy because she wanted to be no virgin anymore but the right guy wasn’t available. If there are girls out there like that: believe me I will dislike that way of thinking from you. Because.. cuts herself off you know never mind. I’m not going into this, it’s just simply ridiculous! (I'm sorry if you felt offended but this is my opinion).
When I came to the story of Perkins, I should have known based on the title that it was about Marigold and North, for those of you that read my review on twelve christmas days, you all know that I would want to know more about Marigold and North so this story definitely made up for that. Obviously it's still short even the both of them together but I believe it is enough. I can live with this. This is the reference though that it should be nice to know that this book comes in second and you should read the winter version at first because of the time wise. I expected a whole different story nothing related, but I'm not going to complain because I liked it.
Souvenirs is like The End of Love.. what was it all about again? Some guys that were not really a couple and yet they were and there was this best boyfriend award that the coward didn't dare to give at the point that it might be important. Well yeah I don't know entirely what I thought of the story. I liked the main character, the one whose p.o.v. we follow but that's about it. The whole setting was a bit vague, why Keith was now Kieth. I don't know. Maybe it's that, all with all in general again perhaps too short to understand and like in my opinion.
Inertia was nice, as I half expected, which is bad to expect things from writers but I expected this story to be interesting. Definitely another soppy love movie that I might try to avoid with my entire being but we can't have everything. The whole future idea of being able to have a last visit before you perhaps die in surgery is an interesting factor what made the story better than it else had been and a bit too lovely but not going to complain again. I liked the characters that made it a lot easier again.
I rated the Love in the Last Resort 3 stars even though it was obvious what was happening, but it was super funny. I liked the writing style and how it ended up to be with the little boy that never talked, well at least he knew how to write but still it was obvious, it was the setting that made it a little less "everything-is-the-same-in-romance-all-the-time" so that was a bonus that made it a bit more fun.
Good Luck and Farewell, my only thoughts are: what was the point?
Brand new Attraction was funny, again something I wouldn't expect in here something about Twelve Summer Days and Summer Zombie Nights but it was a nice idea and again something completely different from the usual information that was going on and with a few twists and turns that didn't make it all focus on Lulu and Lucas which was nice. Even the reference to the good fitting names was in there, even when I thought it myself, which made it extra funny. The adventures of a travelling Evil Valentine Carnaval sounds fun.
A Thousand Ways this Could go Wrong I didn't like Annie, I didn't like Griffin which sounds very mean considering what he explains, which is nice! Because I don't think many people understand what it means and how it works but I know a few people and yes they are particular to hang out with, bit difficult but if we all be nice, we'll manage.
A Map of Tiny Perfect Everything: I know I should read this again at another point because of twelve days that I basically didn't like much, as I flew through the three/four stories I liked, it felt a bit dreadful and I was totally done with it. So this one gets the benefit of the doubt because I did start and I did finish but it didn't really have a point in my mind which is that for now it has two stars.