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Loading... Endless Summer [aka The Boys Next Door]by Jennifer Echols
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I wanted a book similar to Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy. This one got pretty close to it, i enjoyed it. I like the summer contemporary love stories between teenagers. ( ) 2015 Reading Challenge #34: A book with a love triangle. ¿Un romance tierno en donde el peor de los problemas es que el chico que te gusta no se fija en ti? Si hubiese leído esto cuando tenía 15 años, probablemente me hubiese encantado. El problema es que ya no tengo 15 años y mi tolerancia a la estupidez es mucho menor. Y este libro tiene muchas estupideces, cortesía de Lori aka la protagonista. Estupidez #1: Me trata mal porque me ama. Desde el principio es evidente que Sean es un idiota, pero Lori está tan obsesionada con él que toma sus maltratos verbales como muestras de amor. "He must have mentioned it because he was trying to hurt me. And if he’d tried to hurt me, he was in love with me and jealous of Adam." Estupidez #2: Mi mamá lo eligió para mí. Antes de morir, cuando Lori tenía 4 años, su madre un día vio a Sean y dijo: "Just look at those eyes. He’s going to be a heartbreaker." 12 años después, Lori toma eso como una señal de que su madre lo eligió para ella. Y no importa que Lori se de cuenta que realmente ama es a Adam y tampoco importa que se de cuenta que Sean es una basura persona, su mamá lo eligió para ella cuando tenía 4 años y ahora su mamá está muerta y debe honrar su memoria estando con él. A pesar de todo eso voy a admitir que disfruté la lectura: -La química entre Adam y Lori es bastante buena. -Cuando Lori no está actuando patéticamente respecto a Sean, puede ser un poquito badass. -Hay momentos divertidos. No del tipo riéndome-a-carcajadas, más bien como del tipo oh-eso-gracioso-supongo-que-sonreiré. Pero divertidos a fin de cuentas. -Ese mini plot-twist en el último 5% definitivamente no me lo esperaba. Además, tampoco era como si esperaba encontrar una historia acerca del significado de la vida (solo miren esa portada). Recomendable sólo si quieres leer algo rápido y poco exigente emocional y mentalmente. Maybe I shouldn't have read Endless Summer and The Boys Next Door so close together, but because I did I was not enamored with the second book. I still loved the characters, but too many of their antics became grating. I felt like it was an extreme case of deja vu. Also, Echols stellar dialogue seemed missing for the most part from this book; was it because this one was more melodrmatic? Lori lowered in my opinion and maybe it was because Echols chose to tell this story with two povs. I know readers clamor for it, but really sometimes the readers are wrong. Two povs in a short novel can equal thin characters. If I had read Endless Summer on its own, I might have given an even lower rating. :( Jennifer Echols writes in a realm far above most other ya writers. The Boys Next Door, for instance, in other hands would probably be melodramatic or sappy. Echols, however, has a clever way with dialogue and thought and plot that removes her offerings immediately from the average. The girls are not whiny nor are they the same in every novel. In The Boys Next Door Lori is not a typical teenage girl. She is pretty much one of the boys and likes being that until she feels she needs to act on her crush of many years and become girly. Lori isn't snide. She has a sense of humor and has a great rapport with her friends and family. She is flawed, but it's humorous and likeable. A good summertime read! no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesSimon Romantic Comedies Published Order (July 2007 - 19)
Two irresistible boys. One unforgettable summer. Lori can't wait for her summer at the lake. She loves wakeboarding and hanging with her friends--including the two hotties next door. With the Vader brothers, she's always been just one of the guys. Now that she's turning sixteen, she wants to be seen as one of the girls, especially in the eyes of Sean, the older brother. But that's not going to happen--not if the younger brother, Adam, can help it. Lori plans to make Sean jealous by spending time with Adam. Adam has plans of his own for Lori. As the air heats up, so does this love triangle. Will Lori's romantic summer melt into one hot mess? No library descriptions found. |
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