Cass has one rule – do not date the summer girls. The rich girls who come to the town and party on the yachts. Cass works as a life guard at the same time as she helps her fathers organisation, the organisation helps the people in town to be able and keep their houses and resist the exploitation of the community. George Gordon is the business man who moves in on most territories, buying property and building posh houses for the rich. But he is also, strangely, her fathers best friend and boss.
When George’s daughter Birdie ends up in a scandal regarding her cheating boyfriend she comes to town and George asks Cassie to keep and eye on her and help her get a job. Cassie does this reluctantly, she needs the cash for college.
This is a YA Romance book written by Jennifer Dugan. I’m no YA, but sometimes it nice to read and reminisce about feelings as they were when you were young. And Dugan really manages to get the right teenage angst. Although her writing is not really for me, it is a lot of pages of ”the character thinks and debates about something” for three pages, and then suddenly, we’re back in the scene and it feels like the other person/s in the scene really should have just gone away, or fallen asleep. That kills my joy of reading the book.
But I like the way the love story is portrayed, it’s an enemies to lovers plot that works really well and it gets really emotional during the ”big conflict” and what raises my thoughts on the book is the ”try to win her back”-scene in the end. I will of course not reveal it – but it’s one of those ”nobody puts Baby in the corner”-scenes.
With that said – somebody really should have put Baby in that corner, she’s like a minor and he’s a middle aged toyboy – it’s not strange wanting to put Baby in the corner actually.
Anyway, ”Summer girls” is a nice love story of two people who don’t have much in common but who finds common ground and also.. not so surprising, love.
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