It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
Series: Summer #2
Published by Simon & Schuster on April 27, 2010
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Source: Publisher
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Can summer be truly summer without Cousins Beach?

It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come.

But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started--at Cousins Beach.

I fell in love with Belly, Jeremiah, and Conrad in The Summer I Turned Pretty.  I am even more hooked on their crazy relationship now.  It’s Not Summer Without You is a fabulous sequel and once again I can’t wait for more.

Belly thought things were perfect after the way last summer ended but she could not have been more wrong.  Everything is different now and summer will never be the same.  It will never again be the time that Belly most looks forward to.  So when Belly gets a call from Jeremiah asking her to help him find Conrad who has disappeared from summer school, Belly is skeptical.  Of course nothing can keep her from Conrad though so she agrees.  Will she finally get some closure or will things become even more complicated than before?

These boys have me hooked again.  I love Jeremiah.  I just want to kiss him.  He is so sweet and wonderful and sad.  I hated seeing him like that.  Conrad, on the other hand, I wanted to slap.  He was so selfish and mean in this book.  I couldn’t see what Belly saw in him but I still loved Belly.  She was confused, sad, scared, and every emotion in between.  She is a very real character and teen girls will love her.

The plot was great, once again.  It is just a cute quick chick-lit story but I never got bored with it.  It only took me a few hours to read the whole book.  This series is hard to put down.

Overall, It’s Not Summer Without You may be even better than The Summer I Turned Pretty.  I laughed, I cried, I was shocked.  I went through every emotion with this book and I thoroughly enjoyed it.