We'll Always Have Summer: Book 3 in the Summer I Turned Pretty Series

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If anyone could get through to Laurel it was Conrad because of their special relationship. I loved how Laurel actually did listen to Conrad and asked what he was thinking and feeling, but she also kind of knew how she felt. But I loved how Conrad was honest with Laurel in Belly needing and wanting her mom there and getting her to see reason rather than ager at the situation. He really was doing this for Belly and thinking of her best interest. I loved that he played the regret card because I think if she didn’t go, she would regret it more than letting Belly get married and be happy without her—to lose a relationship with her daughter. When Belly moves into her college dorm, she and other girls play the drinking game “I Never.” The other girls mention things like going skinny-dipping and having sex in public places.

There was pleasure in just touching each shell, the ridges, the cool smoothness. Even after Jeremiah and I started dating, every once in a while, sitting in class or waiting for the bus or trying to fall asleep, I would pull out an old memory. The first time I ever beat him in a swimming race. The time he taught me how to dance. The way he used to wet down his hair in the mornings. But the was one memory in particular, one I didn’t let myself touch. It wasn’t allowed. we’ll always have summer · 35

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Book…

We didn’t know what was ahead of us then. We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.” (pg. 281) Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and even seventeen years old . . . But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important. And Jeremiah, he was going to be my last and every and my always.” (pg. 44)

Belly and Jeremiah kiss passionately and often sleep in the same bed. They haven’t had sex in the two years they’ve dated because Belly hasn’t felt that the timing was right. Conrad briefly dating a girl named Agnes because she was cool and very blunt. One day while they were studying, she asked him if he had ever been in love, and when Conrad said “once,” I felt like I was combusting 😆. And then when Agnes asked if on a scale of one to ten, how in love was he, and he said “You can’t put being in love on a scale . . . either you are or you aren’t,” but managed to say ten (pg. 160), I was screaming!!!!!! Like I said earlier, I was bothered. I didn’t want to believe that our sweet Jeremiah Fisher would cheat because that seemed like the last thing he would do.

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I loved how she replied to his last letter and how there was a promise for another Christmas together. Looks like Chris Briney very well might get Santa Clause in the future seasons 😂. I loved when Belly went to the grocery store and cooked a whole spaghetti dinner with salad to prove to Conrad that she could eat a healthy meal. He didn’t go home that night, but she left a plate and a bowl out for him of what she made. And the next day, the food was gone and he washed the dish 🥺💚. I’m assuming he ate the food and didn’t throw it away. But it made my heart swell that he still ate her food and cleaned up after himself—such a gentle, sweet Conrad thing to do. When they told their family, I already felt like Laurel was going to combust, Mr. Fisher was going to be confused, Steven was going to be shook, and Conrad was going to be heart-broken but numb. Jere and Belly talked about how Jere knew that he would never be Belly’s first love or first choice. When Jere asked if she still loved Conrad and she avoided the question by saying she loved him, I was like, that’s an answer 😅. Then she did admit it. Loved died twice that day. I could not keep up with all these tears and all this heartbreak. But Jere just seemed so defeated—like he knew he already lost—before he even walked into that room and asked Belly if she still loved Conrad. You know, I got the sense he wasn’t angry at Conrad as much because he knew Conrad loved Belly and Belly loved him, he just chose to not believe it because he thought that if he could ignore it, Belly would eventually come to love him the same way or that they could be happy. But he didn’t have all of her.

In book two, he has a hard time adjusting to life after Susannah's death and does all he can to push his loved ones away, including Belly. After catching Belly and Jeremiah kissing, he tells her to choose Jeremiah . . . that is until he learns about their pending nuptials and finds her staying at Cousins. Absolutely not. Don’t he dare call Belly a Bridezilla when she was the only one in the relationship taking the wedding seriously when he absolutely did NOTHING ☹️. It’s so messed up how women are insulted when they get stressed over a wedding because they are warranted a moment. The guys in a heterosexual wedding often times in the past didn’t help out as much in the wedding, so I find it insulting that they thought it okay to make a woman feel “crazy” by calling her a bridezilla. She’s not a bridezilla, she’s stressed and tired because the guy’s lazy butt can’t be bothered to help. And also, I sooo dislike the notion that a wedding is “the girl’s day.” If a person genuinely thinks that, honestly run. It’s not the girl’s wedding, it’s your wedding, if the guy isn’t helping you or taking ownership of the day too like he honest want to share your wedding day with you, then run. Absolutely run because you don’t need that energy for the rest of your life if he is not treating planning your wedding like the partnership it should be. Conrad overheard Redbird (Tom), one of Jere’s friends, talking about how Jere had sex in Cabo when Belly and him were “dating.” Conrad thought htey were still dating, but honestly, the fury that raged through Conrad at knowing Jere cheated on Belly, had me screaming! Beat him up, Conrad! Actually, don’t beat Jere up, but you know, beat him up for cheating!!! But Conrad was always going to look out for Belly and defend her. Belly went to the Cousin’s house because she had no where else to go. Only thing was Conrad was also at the Cousin’s house and was going to stay there the summer. Honestly, I was more surprised that Jeremiah didn’t feel threatened that Belly was not going to stay in a house with Conrad, her first love!!! I was like, “This can’t be good for him” 😅.

The Enemy by Sarah Adams Book Review

Telling both their families about their marriage plans will be a challenge, so they decide to break the news to everyone simultaneously at a dedication event honoring Susannah. When she was alive, Susannah was a key supporter for an abused women’s shelter, and the shelter is planting a garden in her honor. Mr. Fisher was a cheating husband when Susannah was alive and an absentee father to his sons growing up. He tries to re-establish a relationship with them now that they’re in college.

I liked how it was fate that Taylor and Belly ended up at the same college because it meant that they still had friendship left in them. Taylor was doing her own thing with her sorority and having her friends and Belly was doing her own thing, but they found a healthier dynamic where they still were in each other’s lives, they were still close, just in a different way. I feel like a part of Laurel died that day when Jere announced that her seventeen-turning-eighteen year old daughter was engaged 😅. In response, Jeremiah begs Belly to forgive him and he proposes to her. Despite her family's concerns, Belly says yes. Based on the popular YA trilogy by Jenny Han, which includes "It's Not Summer Without You" and "We'll Always Have Summer," the series takes us into the lives of two families who spend every summer together in a fictional Massachusetts town called Cousins Beach because their moms are best friends. Laurel's kids, daughter Belly and older brother Steven, are best friends with Susannah's sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Conrad has had Belly's heart since she was 10, but it's his younger brother Jeremiah who's more willing to openly return her feelings and doesn't play games. Caught between the love of two brothers, Belly is forced to figure out who she really wants. Told primarily over the course of the warmest months of the year, the series serves as a coming-of-age story for the teens in both families. And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw pas, present, and future. He didn’t just know the girl I used to be. He knew the right-now me, and he loved me anyway.

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling…

It erased what happened and put a band-aid on the hurt and said, let’s forget it and marry each other instead.