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A review by coyeyes
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I'm mildly disappointed that this is the first book I finished this year, but i'd started it last year after watching the show and just wanted to get it out of the way.
I don't typically feel so strongly about teenage protagonists, but Belly makes it so easy to think of her with disdain—both in show and in audiobook. Her romanticization of Conrad, Susannah (shockingly), and the summer house is so sickening that I almost couldn't bear it. It's unfathomable to me how Belly could be so obsessed with someone so condescending and bread-crumby (but honestly Belly is kind of bread-crumbing herself); I cringed every time Conrad's name was mentioned and I prayed he would fall off the face of the earth like Steven just so I could maybe (MAYBE) stop hearing Belly's obsessive, insecure inner monologue.
Cam Cameron is so much better in the book—I kind of wish he was end game (and I'm a Jeremiah girl). Honestly, i was just comparing the book to the show the entire time, and in the book is a painful slog while the show is a bingeable mess.
I don't know why I even wrote this word-vomitty review. Just...ugh.
I don't typically feel so strongly about teenage protagonists, but Belly makes it so easy to think of her with disdain—both in show and in audiobook. Her romanticization of Conrad, Susannah (shockingly), and the summer house is so sickening that I almost couldn't bear it. It's unfathomable to me how Belly could be so obsessed with someone so condescending and bread-crumby (but honestly Belly is kind of bread-crumbing herself); I cringed every time Conrad's name was mentioned and I prayed he would fall off the face of the earth like Steven just so I could maybe (MAYBE) stop hearing Belly's obsessive, insecure inner monologue.
Cam Cameron is so much better in the book—I kind of wish he was end game (and I'm a Jeremiah girl). Honestly, i was just comparing the book to the show the entire time, and in the book is a painful slog while the show is a bingeable mess.
I don't know why I even wrote this word-vomitty review. Just...ugh.