A review by thebookberrie
Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler

Quick shoutout to my friend Lee for not telling me this was bad and letting me buy it anyway!!

Cool for the Summer is about a girl named Lara who is questioning her sexuality. She finally has the boy of her dreams named Chase but she can't stop thinking about the perfect summer she spent with a girl. When Jasmine shows up at her school, it throws everything into chaos as Lara can't decide who she wants.

Some parts of this were good- Lara questioning her sexuality and who she was was relatable and I felt for her utter confusion. But then that is outweighed by the rest of the book being an absolute mess. While I like Lara WAS a bisexual mess, this entire book is about her questioning if she was bi and at the end she's still like well idk. ???? I understand labels are hard to pin down but the entire point of this book was bi rep and to just shit the bed and say jk she's not bi / doesn't like the label / doesn't even KNOW, why did we even bother? What was the point!!

The author went out of her way to mention every race of every background character and it was so awkward because they weren't relevant at all. There is a non-binary friend who is mentioned as the non-binary friend EVERY TIME they showed up and I don't think they even had a name??? It was so offensive. All of the so called rep in this book was just shit all around, like the author was trying to hit a checklist of name dropping people and literally nothing else.

I should have known going into this that they would mention Demi Lovato. They are mentioned so much and for what oh my god I hate Demi Lovato shut up about them. Cool for the summer isn't even a good song bye.

I love the cover so much but I want to go back to B&N and get my money back because this sucked.