Lucy can’t wait to spend the summer at the lake with her best friend, Mikayla. But when Jackson, the boy she’s been avoiding ever since he rejected her, reappears in her life, Lucy wonders if this summer to remember is one she’d rather forget.
Mikayla’s never had much luck talking to boys, but when she (literally) runs into the cutest guy she’s ever seen, and sparks fly, she thinks things might be looking up…until she realizes the adorable stranger is the same boy who broke her best friend’s heart.
As things begin to heat up between Mikayla and the one guy she should avoid, will Lucy be able to keep her cool or will the girls’ perfect summer turn into one hot mess?
Catherine Clark, the author of beach-read favorites Maine Squeeze and Love and Other Things I’m Bad At, has once again crafted a hilarious and spot-on portrayal of what it’s really like to be a teenager. Readers will love this irreverent coming-of-age story…and will be breathlessly turning the pages to find out what happens next.
Excessive drama. Extremely excessive. Too much drama to actually be able to fully enjoy this. I think that’s the best way to put things. Just too much. All around. Nonstop. Senseless. Drama.
These two girls, Lucy and Mikayla are both far too unreasonable to relate to. One doesn’t understand girlcode. You know, that one code where you don’t date your best friends ex, or in this case, you don’t date the guy who broke your best friends heart and basically sabotaged her social status. And she’s also really still not over it. Some things you don’t do. That is one of those things. Mikayla doesn’t give a shit, quite frankly. Does it anyways.
Lucy needs to grow up, anyways, because said ex-lover refused to kiss her back in eighth grade, and did any of us really have any idea what we were doing back then? I think not. She needed to have gotten over it. It was only ever an attempted kiss and was pretty damn harmless. She should have handled the situation better. Everyone could have. Can you ever successfully put two characters together like that? no, you can’t. And yet, it was done. I think this was the novels crutch mainly; the fact that you had two characters who were both mains and neither of them are able to socially function properly and it just didn’t work. Everyone in this novel is guilty of a crime and it’s because they don’t know what friend codes are. Except for Gus.
Even his name is somewhat tragic. This guy is seriously the one who takes the most backlash from the entire crossfire and I feel so bad because the dude was harmless and the sole reason he couldn’t get the girl he wanted is because of some other guy and her best friend. What? Yes, exactly. Where does this guy even come in? Like, come on. Does friendship know no morals anymore. I couldn’t believe half of this stuff. I wish someone besides him could have been a little more reasonable. Ava, the friend in the middle, was still just as helpless as the rest of the cast. She was always in the middle, being sneaky around one or the other and really just heightening the problem in my opinion.
Overall, this read wasn’t so enticing as it was hair-pulling most of the time. If you want directionless drama and this one cute guy named Gus who might be worth your time, then I guess you just found your kind of novel.
Rating: 6/10
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