Bitten by Books
Summer Love begins with you and your cousin Tasha on the train, headed to Tasha’s family’s beach house. Jade, Tasha’s roommate, and her brother, Dex, pick up you and Tasha in their convertible. As the four of you sit at the country club for lunch, some friends of Dex’s come over and ask him to play tennis that afternoon. You are a pretty good player, but when Dex asks you if you’d like to play, you have a dilemma-play tennis with Dex and his friends, or spend the day at the pool with Tasha and Jade?
Summer Love is completely reader-driven; at the end of each section is a choice of action and the page number to turn to in order to complete the storyline. There are eleven different possibilities of boys to meet and find happiness with, if only for the summer.
I found the format to be a bit confusing and did not like flipping back and forth in the book to complete the story. I read the book several times, turning to different pages to follow different storylines, but managed to get myself hopelessly mixed up. I think young teen girls would appreciate the options to create their own story of romance, but I was not a fan.
Book Stats:
- Age Range: 12 and up
- Grade Level: 7 and up
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Speak (May 1, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0147510929
- ISBN-13: 978-0147510921
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Books in the Follow Your Heart series in the order they should be read:
Summer Love
Love on the Lifts
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Summary : I found the format to be a bit confusing and did not like flipping back and forth in the book to complete the story. I read the book several times, turning to different pages to follow different storylines, but managed to get myself hopelessly mixed up. I think young teen girls would appreciate the options to create their own story of romance, but I was not a fan.
