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A review by inesgueifao
Invincible Summer by Hannah Moskowitz
3.0
Even though I kind of liked this book, I have to admit I had some major problems with it, starting with both the cover and the title that have NOTHING to do with this story.
Then, most of the characters and the dynamic between them were not healthy at all. The parents were completely absent and demanded their kids to look out for each other. The older one, Noah, ran away everyday without ever getting told off. Chase probably had some kind of mental illness that made him think he was Camus (the whole Camus obsession was just plain ridiculous by the way). Claudia was an overly sexualised child who could do whatever the hell she wanted, including acting like a 20 year old in a 12 year old body. Gideon, poor Gideon who I knew was going to end up that way, was never raised as a deaf person should be.
Should I even try to talk about the pseudo-romance between the 15 and the 12 year old? Or maybe the two brothers having sex with the same girl, talking about it and being compared like it was no big deal? The whole dynamic was wrong, just so so wrong.
Then, most of the characters and the dynamic between them were not healthy at all. The parents were completely absent and demanded their kids to look out for each other. The older one, Noah, ran away everyday without ever getting told off. Chase probably had some kind of mental illness that made him think he was Camus (the whole Camus obsession was just plain ridiculous by the way). Claudia was an overly sexualised child who could do whatever the hell she wanted, including acting like a 20 year old in a 12 year old body. Gideon, poor Gideon who I knew was going to end up that way, was never raised as a deaf person should be.
Should I even try to talk about the pseudo-romance between the 15 and the 12 year old? Or maybe the two brothers having sex with the same girl, talking about it and being compared like it was no big deal? The whole dynamic was wrong, just so so wrong.