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Twenty Boy Summer
by Sarah Ockler
I found this book to be quite boring to start off with but it picked up towards the middle and I ended up enjoying it.
Anna, Frankie and Matt. 3 best friends for as long as anyone can remember. Frankie and Matt are brothers. Anna and Frankie are best friends. Anna and Matt are best friends turned a little bit more after Matt makes all her wishes come true when he kisses her on her 15th birthday. Matt and Anna plan to tell Frankie about the two of them but Matt begs Anna to let him break it to her on their annual trip to California. Anna agrees. A day before they leave however, Matt has a heart problem which causes an accident killing him instantly. Frankie and Anna, the passengers, survive. Anna promised Matt not to tell Frankie about them and to let him do it. Now that he is gone, Anna sees this one promise as a way to stay true to Matt so she honours the promise. A year passes and Anna goes on the Californian holiday that Matt never got to last year with their family. Frankie, now boy crazy, makes a plan to meet twenty boys during their vacation. Anna reluctantly agrees. In her mind, as soon as she starts liking a new boy, Matt will be replaced. But once Anna and Frankie meet Jack and Sam, things change and Anna finds herself wanting to forget Matt as she falls hard and fast for Sam.
Frankie, the expert of boys and sex (since losing her virginity to Jonas on the soccer field last year) primps and primes Anna up urging her to wear more make up and more revealing clothes. She encourages Anna to lose her virginity on the trip. Anna ends up losing it to Sam and when she returns the next morning to share the goss with Frankie, Frankie flips out on her. She flaps Anna's diary in her face screaming at her about keeping Matt a secret. After saying many things she will regret she hurls Anna's diary into the ocean. After a couple of days of not talking the girls grudgingly begin a mutual truce, definitely not friends again, but not quite wanting to kill each other.
Once they get back to New York Anna sees Frankie lying out the back in a deck chair reading magazines on her own. Seeing as this is something they used to do together Anna feels guilty and heads over to apologise. The girls end up talking things through, with Frankie giving Anna Matt's favourite necklace to keep.
This book was good. Touching and sad but good. I would have liked Frankie's parents to wake up to the fact that the girls were sneaking out every night and sneaking around with boys. I feel like Frankie was acting out to get attention. Attention that only Matt received - even though he was no longer around. Frankie even admits to this a couple of times in the book. I would've liked a bit more of a reunion between parents and daughter at the end of this book. This book was a nice quick read over the weekend for me which I enjoyed.
Anna, Frankie and Matt. 3 best friends for as long as anyone can remember. Frankie and Matt are brothers. Anna and Frankie are best friends. Anna and Matt are best friends turned a little bit more after Matt makes all her wishes come true when he kisses her on her 15th birthday. Matt and Anna plan to tell Frankie about the two of them but Matt begs Anna to let him break it to her on their annual trip to California. Anna agrees. A day before they leave however, Matt has a heart problem which causes an accident killing him instantly. Frankie and Anna, the passengers, survive. Anna promised Matt not to tell Frankie about them and to let him do it. Now that he is gone, Anna sees this one promise as a way to stay true to Matt so she honours the promise. A year passes and Anna goes on the Californian holiday that Matt never got to last year with their family. Frankie, now boy crazy, makes a plan to meet twenty boys during their vacation. Anna reluctantly agrees. In her mind, as soon as she starts liking a new boy, Matt will be replaced. But once Anna and Frankie meet Jack and Sam, things change and Anna finds herself wanting to forget Matt as she falls hard and fast for Sam.
Once they get back to New York Anna sees Frankie lying out the back in a deck chair reading magazines on her own. Seeing as this is something they used to do together Anna feels guilty and heads over to apologise. The girls end up talking things through, with Frankie giving Anna Matt's favourite necklace to keep.
This book was good. Touching and sad but good. I would have liked Frankie's parents to wake up to the fact that the girls were sneaking out every night and sneaking around with boys. I feel like Frankie was acting out to get attention. Attention that only Matt received - even though he was no longer around. Frankie even admits to this a couple of times in the book. I would've liked a bit more of a reunion between parents and daughter at the end of this book. This book was a nice quick read over the weekend for me which I enjoyed.