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Summary: Judy Blume !?
Review: I didn't know July Blume wrote stories like this! Oh my, this story made me blush! Good read, interesting...lots of fun
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Summary: Easy read.
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It's an easy read and a great escape. I gave it 5 stars, however, I would not read it twice. Once is enough.
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Summary: Good, classic Judy Blume!
Review: I have read this book three times, and each time I find another minor imperfection, but overall I find it entertaining and a genuinely great book for any woman that has ever had a best friend. All of us that have know that many women are guilty of being jealous of their best friend and often wanting what their best friend has. Vix and Caitlin are both classic examples of the typical best friend, but the reader empathizes more with Vix. She lives a more realistic life style, and also it is hard to sympathize with Caitlin after she makes some bad choices that hurt Vix. All in all this book will make any woman long for a childhood summer vacation all over again. Very entertaining.
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Summary: A more intelligent Jackie Collins/Danielle Steele type book
Review: Like most women who grew up in the 70s, I was a huge fan of Judy Blume's children's books. This is the first time I've read one of her adult novels. I didn't think it was bad, and yet I excpected more from her. I liked the main characters of Vix and Caitlin. The book is really about female friendship, belonging, family, and love. I could relate to how Caitlin treated Vix - I felt like I knew these girls. Their envy of each other made perfect sense, and I did sympathize with both of them. They were people I could identify with. The situations they found themselves in, the fears, the concerns, the hopes, all rang true. The dialogue was realistic and the novel was fast paced. Blume started to explore family dynamics, but only on a surface level. And that is the key problem.There were too many characters, and I didn't like the shifting points of view at various points in each chapter. I know she did it to try to give the reader a better sense of the family dynamics at work; I don't think it was effective. I never quite understood Tawny, Abby, or Vix's need to replace Tawny with Abby. I felt let down by the event that is considered the big betrayal of the final summer -- there's a secret that Blume holds on to until the girls are adults that I think she should've revealed sooner. Yes, this book has alot of sex in it, and some of it is unnecessary. I didn't find it as offensive as some other readers, however. Overall, this was a decent book that was easy to read. It won't challenge you, and you likely won't want to read it twice, (hence the rating of 3 stars as opposed to 4) but it will keep you engrossed. I wouldn't reccommend it to anyone under 15 or so. I also don't think it's likely to appeal to many people over the age of 35ish.
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Summary: funny and fun
Review: It was such a fun novel, that I read it in 2 days
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Summary: Excellent book! I loved every word!
Review: This was a fantastic book! I never realized that Judy Blume wrote adult fiction, but once I saw this book I had to pick it up - memories of Superfudge and her other children's book bring back great memories!
Summer Sisters is a great story of friendship, betrayal and love. It is about jealously between girl friends and how they chose to deal with it. I loved both Vix and Caitlin and although I identified with each at times, I really felt close to both of them.
I really enjoyed the small blurbs at the end of some of the chapters that were written from the points of view of some of the other characters in the book - Abby, Lamb, Bru, Von, etc. It was a neat little glimpse into their lives from their own point of view and that added tremendously to the book!!!
All and all, this was a great book about relationships and what shapes us as people, friends, lovers and even husbands/wives! Don't miss it!
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Summary: A must read for woman
Review: I aboustly loved this book and recommed it to all my woman friends because its so great. There is just something about it, that I can't quite put my finger on that is something out of real life and such a great getaway.
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Summary: GREAT GREAT BOOK
Review: I read it twice - it is a great book that I would recommend to all of my girlfriends.
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Summary: great book
Review: i first read this book when i first turned 16. i found it to be such a great book. my friend and i read it together every free second, we even gave up our lunch to read it. i became our *bible*. we compare ourselves to vix and cait and we r similar in many ways. we spent all last summer together, and she had basicly adopted me. now i am living with her and her family and we couldn't be any more similar to vix and cait. it is a great book and i highly recomend it to any best friends who wanna read a good book.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I actually read this book out of curiosity. Reading a book by Judy Blume had been a taboo growing up. I was never allowed to by my mother because she was supposedly too controversial. So, when I found an adult book by her, I was determined to rebelliously snatch it up. Aside from the sexual content, the book seemed pretty dull to me. I felt like I was reliving my teenage years through the characters: the best friend stealing my boyfriend, the boyfriend that I barely know other than physically, the pettiness of people, the misunderstandings and lack of communication between everybody, mothers that leave their children to be brought up by strangers. I just wasn't impressed. Yes, it's easy to read. But there's no suspense. The whole book is so surface-level. I supose it's realistic, but no award winner. The book seems to end just because it shouldn't possibly go on any longer.
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