Reader's Response 2.22.12

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

  Even though I am in the beginning of We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee, I found the novel The Summer I Turned Pretty on my NOOK App and decided to read it over Mardi Gras break. I had always seen the book by Jenny Han in Barnes and Noble every time I went but never gave it a chance until I was online and saw it had such great reviews by girls my age. Over Christmas break I got a lot of money to buy books for my NOOK tablet and The Summer I Turned Pretty was one of many purchases! The novel is the first in its trilogy called 'Summer'.

  TSITP {The Summer I Turned Pretty} is about Belly Cocklin and how her life revolves around her summers at the Fisher's beach house at Cousin's beach and how her life evolves from a young girl into a beautiful young woman. The story is told with flashbacks which I love about it. The flashbacks give explanations for the way {Isabel} Belly Cocklin, Conrad Fisher , Jeremiah Fisher, Steven Cocklin, Taylor Jewel, Susannah {Beck} Fisher, Laurel Cocklin, Mr. Fisher, & Mr. Cocklin act when it comes back to the present. Belly loves Beck like she is her own mother and Conrad and Jeremiah as her own brothers. But Belly has been in love with Conrad since the day she met him. But Conrad is hard and hidden and has never shown any of the same feeling towards 'baby Belly'. Belly has a true shock of real life when her summer ends {no I will NOT tell you!! ;) }

  I highly recommend this book to girls! Sorry guys but you boys would most likely not enjoy this book. I loved this book because I could relate to some of things that Belly went through or said in the book. TSITP is a love story as well as a tear jerking drama. The way I described the book to my mom and grandmother was like a teenage Nicholas Sparks novel. I hope reading this will make you guys want to read the book and tell me how you like it or dislike it.

Reading Times:
2.20.12- 2 hours and 37 minutes
2.21.12- 3 hours and 10 minutes
~over all 5 hours and 47 minutes~ awhh yyeeah!