Scan barcode
A review by moomeri
Invincible Summer by Hannah Moskowitz
3.0
I am not satisfied with the book. I'm giving it 3 stars only because it had its nice moments throughout the first few pages. As many people have said, the cover is very misleading. At first I thought the book was going to be about 2 brothers fighting for the same girl, and as a secondary theme would be the family. This was certainly not the case, as the whole books centers on the family dysfunction, adding a girl in between for about 4 pages in total.
Apart from that, I had a HUGE problem with Chase. I cannot even imagine him being real, the things he says, the way he expresses himself, just didn't seem real for a 15-17 year old boy. I hated the fact that he refers to his siblings as 'the kids'. The constant references to Camus get anoying as the book progresses, and also the reference to 'playing house' is a bit out of place. Moreover, the relationship between Noah and Chase is a little weird, the amount of hugs between them, the sharing of Melinda, the running away, it's all over the place. I was also hoping that Bella's character was going to be developed somewhere in the novel, but it never was. It seemed as if she was going to be a big part of the novel at the beginning, but she only appeared for a few moments after that summer.
I did enjoy the presence of Gideon. He is a deaf little boy who struggles with communicating, because his parents do not know ASL. He may be the only character I could truly imagine.
Apart from that, I had a HUGE problem with Chase. I cannot even imagine him being real, the things he says, the way he expresses himself, just didn't seem real for a 15-17 year old boy. I hated the fact that he refers to his siblings as 'the kids'. The constant references to Camus get anoying as the book progresses, and also the reference to 'playing house' is a bit out of place. Moreover, the relationship between Noah and Chase is a little weird, the amount of hugs between them, the sharing of Melinda, the running away, it's all over the place. I was also hoping that Bella's character was going to be developed somewhere in the novel, but it never was. It seemed as if she was going to be a big part of the novel at the beginning, but she only appeared for a few moments after that summer.
I did enjoy the presence of Gideon. He is a deaf little boy who struggles with communicating, because his parents do not know ASL. He may be the only character I could truly imagine.