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A review by readingwitherin
The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman
3.0
Tansy hasn't seen Selena in almost twenty years after they were involved in a murder that they never told anyone about. Tansy has now moved on with her life and moved across the country. But then one day Selena walks into her office at the college she works at demanding that Tansy help her get her daughter out of an abusive relationship. Tansy of course can't do this as a counselor and because she doesn't know Selena's daughter Jupiter at all.
Things get very complicated very quickly with Selena basically blackmailing Tansy, and Tansy running into a fellow teacher at the university who also happens to be Selena's brother. This leads to them in a way working together to attempt to keep Tansy under control, while also helping Jupiter with her current life situation.
Overall this book was a lot. I never knew what direction it was going to take because of how Selena would just pop up out of know where. Then you have Selena's brother who, while trying to be a good brother and an uncle, is also dragging Tansy into it all as he tries to control the entire situation to keep Jupiter safe and Tansy from doing anything illegal. This is all extremely messy and confusing at times because of how each of them have secrets when it comes to Tansy. One thing I did like about this book though was how Tansy and the brother worked together to keep Jupiter safe and how she was the top priority for both of them. It was nice to see them not pushing Jupiter in any direction and instead just being there for her and helping whenever she called. This, of course, upset Selena but this situation wasn't about her, and because of that you could tell it bothered Selena and she tried to control the situation by bringing up the blackmail every chance she could.
All in all, this was an okay book. I had to know how it was going to end, and what was going to happen to Jupiter. I was happy with the ending for the most part, still a lot of secrets but that's just this book in general tons of secrets from everyone involved in the story.
Things get very complicated very quickly with Selena basically blackmailing Tansy, and Tansy running into a fellow teacher at the university who also happens to be Selena's brother. This leads to them in a way working together to attempt to keep Tansy under control, while also helping Jupiter with her current life situation.
Overall this book was a lot. I never knew what direction it was going to take because of how Selena would just pop up out of know where. Then you have Selena's brother who, while trying to be a good brother and an uncle, is also dragging Tansy into it all as he tries to control the entire situation to keep Jupiter safe and Tansy from doing anything illegal. This is all extremely messy and confusing at times because of how each of them have secrets when it comes to Tansy. One thing I did like about this book though was how Tansy and the brother worked together to keep Jupiter safe and how she was the top priority for both of them. It was nice to see them not pushing Jupiter in any direction and instead just being there for her and helping whenever she called. This, of course, upset Selena but this situation wasn't about her, and because of that you could tell it bothered Selena and she tried to control the situation by bringing up the blackmail every chance she could.
All in all, this was an okay book. I had to know how it was going to end, and what was going to happen to Jupiter. I was happy with the ending for the most part, still a lot of secrets but that's just this book in general tons of secrets from everyone involved in the story.