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When Summer Ends Review

When Summer EndsTitle: When Summer Ends
Author: Jessica Pennington
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Trigger Warning:  Mentioned Drug Use, Parent Abandonment
Rating:  5 stars
Release Date: April 15, 2019

Synopsis

Three months
Two changed fates
One chance to fall in love
Aiden Emerson is an all-star pitcher and the all-around golden boy of Riverton. Or at least he was, before he quit the team the last day of junior year without any explanation. How could he tell people he’s losing his vision at seventeen?
Straight-laced Olivia thought she had life all figured out. But when her dream internship falls apart, her estranged mother comes back into her life, and her longtime boyfriend ghosts her right before summer break, she starts to think fate has a weird sense of humor.
Each struggling to find a new direction, Aiden and Olivia decide to live summer by chance, letting coin flips, card pulls, and rock, paper, scissors make all the hard decisions. Every fleeting adventure and stolen kiss is as fragile as a coin flip in this heartfelt journey to love and self-discovery from the author of Love Songs & Other Lies.

Review

A special thank you to Macmillan-Tor Forge and Netgalley for providing a free advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book features two teenagers transitioning in their life and working with each other to figure out what they truly want. Olivia and Aiden had so much chemistry and were absolutely adorable together. Both are unsure of their futures, but they find stability with each other and the sacrifices they are willing to make for the other are realistic while still being romantic. Both povs were really well done and still unique enough in their voices that I could easily be able to tell the differences between the two.

The descriptions of the woods and river, particularly through eyes unique to the situation, are absolutely amazing and well done. I absolutely loved it all. There was just so much that was going on, and it was just fantastic. Within the circumstances of the main characters, it still felt realistic and was enjoyable to read these to truly set the scene for where all of these things were occurring in. I also found the setting to be unique enough and while following a few tropes, the setting and how the characters interacted within the setting and these particular circumstances. It was a good solid romance story and still had its own unique elements within these points.

Honestly, my only problem with this book is really minor- I wanted more specifics in names and dates. What eye condition is it? It would be cool to have a real one, but by not even making up a name it made it seem less serious than the rest of the descriptions portrayed it to be. The major elements of plot are amazing and definitely still there.

I loved this book, and Olivia and Aiden are so cute together, especially in their own unique circumstances and situations with the world around them. I seriously adored this book though, and if you're interested in a solid YA romance, I would definitely recommend giving this book a read.


It's the last day of April and this is only like two weeks after publication! Honestly though, this is a great YA romance.

No Top Ten Tuesday today, but I'll start up again next week.

Thanks for reading!
Alyssa
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