On Sale Date: April 26 2016
Pages: 368
Age Range: Young Adult
Summer Everett is spending the summer in two different worlds (everything is possible in fiction..). In one she experiences what she did when she stays at home in upstate New York. She is just about to go to her dad in France, when he cancels last minute because he has to go to Berlin for business. Instead of going to France, she stays home and her aunt Lydia advises her to take her photography summer classes. During the time home, she learns a secret about her dad that she hadn't a clue about, and her friendship with her best friend is going through a hard time.
In the other summer, she doesn't stay home but travels to her dad to France, altough she misses the call from her dad that he will not be their, so she is quite devastated when he isn't waiting for her at the gate. She travels to his house where she meets Vivienne and her daughter Eloise, who live in the house of her dad, as he explained many artist friends live there. This is a summer full of chocolate croissants, museums, French culture.
And in both summers, Summer meets new friends and experiences true summer romance!
As I am a big fan of Aimee Friedman's previous books, I was highly anticipating Two Summers. And my expectations where totally met! I didn't read the synopsis first, which I seldom two as I want a book to surprise me, so I didn't expect it to be two parallel summers. I though this parallel to summers worked great for this book, and where worked out very well. The question that is the red line in between the two summers is ''What if I did the one thing or the other?'' What if she stayed home and what if she went to France?
In both worlds she experiences a lot of fun and less fun things. I really liked the character of Summer, she was a girl you can just relate to. I liked all the unexpected things that happened that made both summers very interesting to read about.
Two Summers is a very entertaining YA novel that I highly recommend!
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