A review by hopebrasfield
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

4.0

This book's review--which takes into account my emotional experience--is inflated on account of it matching up with my own later-childhood daydreaming life. 

Quotes below behind spoiler tags, just in case. 

 

"Not this time, though. This time I was going to be a good sport. If I was a good sport, maybe that would take away some of their joy." 

"I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that--gone."