Summer Sisters

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Summary: Summer Sisters
Review: Judy Blume describes the story through the eyes of the main characters Victoria how her friendship with her best friend Caitlin evolved over the years.The major theme in the novel is friendship.The two girls grew up in Santa Fe but spent every summer from the sixth grade to senior year in high school in the Vineyard.The two girls started to fall in love with boys over the summers.After they graduated high school Victoria went to Harvard and Caitlin traveled around the world.
I liked this book because the book starts out with the ending, but does not give away the big surprise. The author makes you think that something is going to happen, but goes a different way with her ideas. The ending is not what the reader expects at all.

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Summary: One of the best "coming of age" stories I've ever read
Review: I enjoyed Judy Blume's books as a young adult and was thrilled when I heard she wrote another adult book. This book did not disappoint! Its definitely one of the best "coming of age" stories out there. I could relate to alot in the book as I grew up in a small town on the coast of New England and my summers were very similar to Vix & Caitlin's. My only complaint is that I would love to hear the same story told from Caitlin's point of view. This book made me laugh and cry, and also nostalgic for those New England summers gone by.

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Summary: Seven and a half out of ten
Review: I loved Judy Blume's books as a young adult, and I've also read Wifey & Smart Women. I particularly enjoyed 'Summer Sisters', as it was engrossing, yet a light and mild book. In this story, Blume makes many interesting observations about women's friendship, women's development, and the nature of young love.

I started and finished the book on a rainy Sunday and it was a wonderful escape from the rain, with its references to summer and the summer adventures that the two female protagonists experience. The fact that I was driven to finish it in one day shows that it is definitely a 'page turner'.

Blume develops the characters with a great deal of care. Tawny, Victoria, and Abby are characters that are complex and well-developed. The male characters are not as well developed, which is disappointing. Sharkey is especially under-developed, I found, as I would have expected him to have a lot more to say. I also found some of his thoughts on his sister disturbing. Some of the scenarios with Vix & Cassandra were also disturbing, and it may be the Judy Blume went a bit too far to make this fictional work more racy that it needed to be. Just to set the record straight though, MOST women's friendships don't involve any joint incidents with "the power".

Caitin is also under-developed in terms of character development. One big flaw in the plot is that I seriously doubt her father would let her travel around the globe at such a young age without giving her any guidelines or parental direction. The end left me unsettled as well, as it didn't seem realistic or believable.

Nevertheless, this is a great book for those of you who want to escape the winter or a rainy day.

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Summary: Judy Blume Has Never Failed Me!
Review: Ever since I was a pre-teen, she's been one of my favorite authors! Summer Sisters was a fantastic read with a surprising ending for me! It's quite the page turner and even has pages that will make you giggle! I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: Who spends that much time with their ankles behind her ears?
Review: This is typical fluff. Stolen boyfriends with a bit of lesbianism thrown in to boot. (I wonder if the author was trying to tell us that she had had such relationships earlier in her life by dedicating the book to her "summer sister.")

The reading was very light and very easy.

I don't think that the experience that people have with "moth to the flame" human relationships is quite as dramatic as all that.

This is something good to do on a rainy afternon when you don't feel like going out or want to be challenged by overly deep characters and plots of great complexity.