Summer 2006 Review

Jess had the perfect summer planned. She was going to spend the whole summer with Fred, her boyfriend that her mom didn't know about because her mom would flip, literally. During the first week of summer, her mom had news, they were going to spend the summer at Jess's dad's house. Jess had to tell Fred, she couldn't bare the pain by herself. It was too much. When Fred found out he was heart broken, but he said he would keep in touch with her through text messaging. So the journey began without Fred and through haunted houses and boring old cemeteries until Jess finally reached her destination, her dad's house. The whole time Jess was away from Fred she was afraid that he was cheating on her with her best, but unbelievably beautiful friend Flora. Jess's mum decided to stop a town away from her dad's town to explore a little. Jess was allowed to go off on her own, so she went to her dad's house a day early. At dad's house there was a man named Phil, who is friends with Jess's dad and his girlfriend dumped him and he needed a place to stay. Then Fred called and said he needed Jess to do him a favor, so she did it. However, it wasn't a favor at all, Fred had come to see her, and was by the beach near her dad's house. Jess was amazed, shocked, not to mention excited. Jess made up a plan to tell her dad about Fred, and see if he could stay in his house too. Jess left Fred at the beach and went home and dropped a bombshell on her dad, but she got one back, her dad was gay.

I really enjoyed this book because it showed that divorces don't have to be as bad as most people see them as. In the book Jess was so delighted to hear that her dad was gay because it explained so many things, such as why her parents got divorced in the first place. I would recommend this book for middle school students because they would have a better understanding on dating issues since there's always so much drama when someone is going out with someone else. They always think their boyfriend of girlfriend is cheating on them.