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A review by stephaniekhani
Summer of '76 by Isabel Ashdown
3.0
Originally reviewed on my blog: http://stephinlondon.com/2013/06/17/advance-read-summer-of-76-by-isabel-ashdown/
Before reading Ashdown’s forthcoming Summer of ’76 I thought it would be best to read something else by her to get an idea of her writing style and such. Lucky for me I’d purchased an e-version of Hurry Up and Wait a few months back and this seemed like the perfect chance to give it a read. I’m glad I did because I got a very good sense of how Ashdown writes and constructs her characters and storylines. Summer of ’76 and Hurry Up and Wait are two very similar books in that they’re slow burners and both have a sort of twist at the end.
I did enjoy Summer of ’76 though there were points where I wished things would speed up a bit or where I felt like more could have been happening. Even so, Ashdown’s writing style is lovely and easy to read and she’s very good at capturing the nuances of the time in her writing (the 80′s in Hurry Up and 70′s in Summer). I must say that I loved how the opening of Summer of ’76 held its own but actually made loads of sense by the conclusion of the novel. Swinger party (keys in bowl)? I’m there!
I’m eager to give her debut novel Glasshopper a read and can only imagine it will be just as emotionally intense as her other two books.
Before reading Ashdown’s forthcoming Summer of ’76 I thought it would be best to read something else by her to get an idea of her writing style and such. Lucky for me I’d purchased an e-version of Hurry Up and Wait a few months back and this seemed like the perfect chance to give it a read. I’m glad I did because I got a very good sense of how Ashdown writes and constructs her characters and storylines. Summer of ’76 and Hurry Up and Wait are two very similar books in that they’re slow burners and both have a sort of twist at the end.
I did enjoy Summer of ’76 though there were points where I wished things would speed up a bit or where I felt like more could have been happening. Even so, Ashdown’s writing style is lovely and easy to read and she’s very good at capturing the nuances of the time in her writing (the 80′s in Hurry Up and 70′s in Summer). I must say that I loved how the opening of Summer of ’76 held its own but actually made loads of sense by the conclusion of the novel. Swinger party (keys in bowl)? I’m there!
I’m eager to give her debut novel Glasshopper a read and can only imagine it will be just as emotionally intense as her other two books.