Summer Sisters

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Summary: Creative, Daring, and Plain Wonderful
Review: This book has now become on of my favorite's. No one can capture true feelings, love, and lust in words like Judy Blume can. The book had me laughing, noddind, agreeing, and crying. Judy Blume isen't scared to say and pin point excatly what her charecters feel. Definatly one of my most charied adult novels!

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Summary: As an old die hard fan of JB, this was not that great.
Review: As many of the reviewers here have said, I was a die-hard fan of Judy Blume from age 8 to 11. Her book changed and inspired events in my life, and I would love to meet her and tell her so. With that out of the way, this book had a very boring, unlikable protagonist (poor girl, smart and good), and a cliche antagonist (gorgeous rich-girl best friend), both with not enough substance or backgrounds. I didn't like Vix very much & couldn't understand why Caitlin did. It was hard to be compassionate towards her, she seemed to have the personality of a flea. Other characters, the reader gets a taste of (like Daniel, Gus, Sharkey, Phoebe), but it wasn't enough. Events are rushed through in the end. And characters get more and more sketchy. Read it out of loyalty to Judy, it IS a quick read. But check it out in the library or wait fo r the paperback.

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Summary: A book of friends & love that everyone can relate to.
Review: Summer Sisters is a book that shows a lot of common feelings for teen girls that other teens can really relate to. There are also certain events that we wish could happen to us. It is a story of a unique friendship and love. It really makes you think about your purpose in life and what kind of friends you have. It shows consequences of choices and how 2 best friends split paths but are forever conected at heart.

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Summary: Adult or Teenage Fiction?
Review: I read everything that Judy Blume published when I was an adolescent and her books were out of this world but I found as an adult this book did not hold my attention. I would recommend it to a teenager but not to any of my adult friends.

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Summary: I CAN'T WAIT FOR HER NEXT ADULT NOVEL
Review: I could not put this book down. I read all her books when I was in grade school, Junior High and High School. She is a wonderful author. I could always live my life through her characters. Once again she did not let me down. I have never been so moved by a book.

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Summary: Good Job Judy
Review: This book was such a page-turner! Once you read it, you'll never forget it. It makes you realize how precious friendship, love, and family are. It will surprise you and make you sentimental. This book would have been a lot better if they would have cut-out the language, though.

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Summary: Found this to be absolutely delightful book.
Review: Enjoyed this book very much. Was such an easy and delightful read. Pre adolescent girls going through life and the families and friends doing the same. Wonderful writing, keeping you enthralled from first to last page. Rythm and style to keep you interested and thinking about the values and moral challenges of ordinary people in some extraordinary situations. A must read, and book to return to for pleasure.

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Summary: inaccurate details?
Review: I lost most of my interest in this book after Caitlin and Vix stopped spending their summers together. One thing that caught my attention was that some of the time period references seemed wrong. I'm not sure, but I don't remember seeing Birkenstocks and Tevas as early as they were described in the book, and 90210 wasn't on yet in 1987. It's minor, but I usually enjoy those details when they're accurate.

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Summary: Could not put it down! Brought back memories!
Review: I had read every Judy Blume novel in print in junior high and thus was surprised to see her in print in the adult arena --- excellent! engrossing! could not put it down!! everyone has the one friend from childhood whom they stay in touch with through the ages and with whom they can share everything -- can't wait to pick up her other adult novels -- this review is from someone who never reads romance novels and focuses on current fiction and suspense -- ie. James Patterson, Michael Palmer, Dean Koontz -- this is a quick, easy read --- a light Pat Conroy novel!

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Summary: "Forever" all over again
Review: I was looking forward to reading this book, as I loved Judy Blume's books as a child/young adult. Unfortunately, while I have grown as a person and in my reading choices, Ms. Blume's writing hasn't kept pace. Her main characters were uninteresting, one dimensional, and focused almost exclusively on sex. It was in the same genre as "Forever", only marketed to adults.