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smalltownbookmom's review
3.0
A cute YA summer romance set on Fire Island that sees two teen photographers falling in love. Full of friendship, new love and lots of ice cream. This one's been getting some poor reviews but I enjoyed it and thought the audiobook narration by Phoebe Strole was good.
betterwithabookinmyhand's review
Getting Over Max Cooper is a light, teen beach read that will have you missing summer or wishing it would never end.
**Thank you Penguin Teen for the ARC in an exchange for an honest review**
Summers in Fire Island are for sunsets with friends, days spent working at the ice cream truck, biking around the island, and maybe, just maybe, for finding love. Jazz has spent the entire school year away from her best friend Macy but summer is here and Jazz is looking forward to spending the entire summer together. While Macy is desperately hoping she can reignite the fire between her and her last fling, Max Cooper, Jazz meets someone who she can see herself really falling for. But is there room in their summer to catch up, make time for new and old relationships, AND work summer jobs? It'll be a test of their friendship to work through it all.
What I liked about this story:
**Jasmine's voice. It is quirky, full of feeling, and her character really shown throughout the story.
"McDimple lowers the camera from his face and raises his thick eyebrows at me, essentially asking me to marry him, but maybe not, and then he says, 'Later.'"
**The town felt flushed out. There were lots of bike trips and the territory felt familiar even as I was being introduced to it.
**The characters in the story felt fairly authentic, like they each had their best and less stellar qualities shown.
There were a few cool young kid terms like "cuffed" and "WYA" and while I knew one, the other was still new to me but I didn't mind it (even if it did make me feel a little old, haha).
Where I struggled a bit with the story was that there felt like there was two main focus' of the story, one being Jazz's potential love interest, and the other is Macy getting over Max Cooper. Where I enjoyed the former and thought it began and ended in a sweet place, the latter doesn't get the full resolution I was expecting considering the title. I think I struggled with Macy's character the most because she didn't seem like a great friend or someone worth fighting for like Jazz is in the story. I wish more rise and fall had happened with Macy's arc earlier on, it ended in a true to life place but I felt a little strung along by her storyline.
There was a lot to the story and I would definitely recommend it for a cabin weekend away or a carefree summer read.
4 stars
**Thank you Penguin Teen for the ARC in an exchange for an honest review**
Summers in Fire Island are for sunsets with friends, days spent working at the ice cream truck, biking around the island, and maybe, just maybe, for finding love. Jazz has spent the entire school year away from her best friend Macy but summer is here and Jazz is looking forward to spending the entire summer together. While Macy is desperately hoping she can reignite the fire between her and her last fling, Max Cooper, Jazz meets someone who she can see herself really falling for. But is there room in their summer to catch up, make time for new and old relationships, AND work summer jobs? It'll be a test of their friendship to work through it all.
What I liked about this story:
**Jasmine's voice. It is quirky, full of feeling, and her character really shown throughout the story.
"McDimple lowers the camera from his face and raises his thick eyebrows at me, essentially asking me to marry him, but maybe not, and then he says, 'Later.'"
**The town felt flushed out. There were lots of bike trips and the territory felt familiar even as I was being introduced to it.
**The characters in the story felt fairly authentic, like they each had their best and less stellar qualities shown.
There were a few cool young kid terms like "cuffed" and "WYA" and while I knew one, the other was still new to me but I didn't mind it (even if it did make me feel a little old, haha).
Where I struggled a bit with the story was that there felt like there was two main focus' of the story, one being Jazz's potential love interest, and the other is Macy getting over Max Cooper. Where I enjoyed the former and thought it began and ended in a sweet place, the latter doesn't get the full resolution I was expecting considering the title. I think I struggled with Macy's character the most because she didn't seem like a great friend or someone worth fighting for like Jazz is in the story. I wish more rise and fall had happened with Macy's arc earlier on, it ended in a true to life place but I felt a little strung along by her storyline.
There was a lot to the story and I would definitely recommend it for a cabin weekend away or a carefree summer read.
4 stars
norassick's review
2.0
i just don't know what happened and how things connected, great writing tho felt all the summer vibes that i miss so bad
but yea story just felt meh
but yea story just felt meh
cbear_13's review
2.0
It’s really a 2.5 but can’t do that on this app
I would say this book wasn’t my favorite I still enjoyed reading it but I just don’t think I liked the writing it felt to straight forward idk.
I would say this book wasn’t my favorite I still enjoyed reading it but I just don’t think I liked the writing it felt to straight forward idk.
readingwithmelodie's review
1.0
god this book is so bad I’m not even gonna sugar coat it.
if you don’t like critique don’t read this review. it’s 3am and I don’t have a filter
this is the most basic book I’ve read. all they care about is boys and followers and instagram and partying and boys, and it’s a whole bunch of girls being toxic as heck
jasmine doesn’t have a single backbone in her body. her friends aren’t friends. if she’s gonna complain about being fat again I’m gonna slap her. yes, sure, feel insecure, but you can’t just accuse everyone of being fatphobic when literally everything you say is just “oh she’s beautiful” and the second someone doesn’t call you beautiful they’re fatphobic. they have nothing to do with each other. also im very anti drugs, and this book just casually drops like, 17 year olds using it. it’s very much not appropriate.
this book has less plot than books I’ve read in primary school, but it tries to be all big and fancy but the people who would be able to stand the plot would be too young to read the amount of mature themes just thrown in for no good reason
and macy is the most toxic female dog and god why jazz still considers her her friend. says a lot about jasmines lack of, just, everything. and spoiler alert, max cooper does not want tea macy, do not force tea down his throat. AND JAZZ GOES LIKE HMM YEAH MAYBE THIS IS AN ISSUE. jasmine. no.
god why did I read this book. (I was multitasking and I was too lazy to turn it off and then it was so bad I needed to finish it to I could write a complete review not a dnf review that’s why)
please don’t read this. spare yourself
if you don’t like critique don’t read this review. it’s 3am and I don’t have a filter
this is the most basic book I’ve read. all they care about is boys and followers and instagram and partying and boys, and it’s a whole bunch of girls being toxic as heck
jasmine doesn’t have a single backbone in her body. her friends aren’t friends. if she’s gonna complain about being fat again I’m gonna slap her. yes, sure, feel insecure, but you can’t just accuse everyone of being fatphobic when literally everything you say is just “oh she’s beautiful” and the second someone doesn’t call you beautiful they’re fatphobic. they have nothing to do with each other. also im very anti drugs, and this book just casually drops like, 17 year olds using it. it’s very much not appropriate.
this book has less plot than books I’ve read in primary school, but it tries to be all big and fancy but the people who would be able to stand the plot would be too young to read the amount of mature themes just thrown in for no good reason
and macy is the most toxic female dog and god why jazz still considers her her friend. says a lot about jasmines lack of, just, everything. and spoiler alert, max cooper does not want tea macy, do not force tea down his throat. AND JAZZ GOES LIKE HMM YEAH MAYBE THIS IS AN ISSUE. jasmine. no.
god why did I read this book. (I was multitasking and I was too lazy to turn it off and then it was so bad I needed to finish it to I could write a complete review not a dnf review that’s why)
please don’t read this. spare yourself
annathebookworm's review
3.0
This book was weird lol
The writing was really juvenile and trying to be hip with the lingo and all
But maybe i am just too old for this type of YA book
The writing was really juvenile and trying to be hip with the lingo and all
But maybe i am just too old for this type of YA book
cmwinkelman's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0