Summer Book 4

Fifteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton

This was an impulse buy last week, and I wasn't really sure what to expect. I mean, the blurb on the back was informational, but not too much. Also, I should mention that this tome is two books in one volume. And, in all honesty, I picked it up because I thought it might interest my daughter (and I was at least half right because she's already read the second book in here).

Chelsea is fifteen years old, has two older sisters, and lives in LA. Every year, her family would travel to Michigan to spend the summer with her Granly, her mother's mother. Unfortunately, in January, Granly passed away, so Chelsea and her family travel to her home to decide what to do with it.

The thing about Chelsea is that she feels that she's nothing special, particularly next to her sisters. Oldest sister, Hannah, is super smart and headed to college to become a doctor. Middle sister, Abbie is a competitive swimmer. Both are beautiful, and all Chelsea can see is her unruly red hair and freckles. Additionally, both sisters are planning to rekindle "romances" with boys they knew from the previous summer, but Chelsea is still new to the relationship game.

That all changes when she meets Josh in the bookstore. He runs hot and cold where Chelsea is concerned, and she never really knows where she stands with him. He does, in his own way, help her to get a job at the restaurant next door to the bookstore so they can see each other more.

Since this is Chelsea's first relationship ever, it's really sweet to see it develop over the course of the book. These are the things we sometimes forget as we get older, so it was nice to be reminded of things we once felt ourselves.

Sweet book, and I look forward to the next one in this volume, even though, as it turns out, it's not about the same couple.