I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.



After Summer is an emotional story of Arianna after her best friend, Summer, passes away. She completely shuts off and pushes everybody that ever cared for her aside. After a year hanging out with the popular crowd, she admitted how unhappy she was.



There are so many run on sentences in this book, it could be used for grammar homework in English class. It would be a whole project. Now if they were fixed, this book could be better.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.



After Summer is an emotional story of Arianna after her best friend, Summer, passes away. She completely shuts off and pushes everybody that ever cared for her aside. After a year hanging out with the popular crowd, she admitted how unhappy she was.



There are so many run on sentences in this book, it could be used for grammar homework in English class. It would be a whole project. Now if they were fixed, this book could be better. The wording and writing could still be better and more beautiful.



When Summer died, I didn't find myself feeling much. It just happened suddenly and we didn't know anything about her. It was too sudden and the writing for her death I believe could've been better. Make us feel something.



For the most part, the characters were not likeable. Arianna got mad at the stupidest things, she believed she should do what everyone else thinks. She always wanted everyone to sweep her problems under a rug and ignore them because she was a coward. I think, had the writing been better and if I could've seen more into Arianna's thoughts, I might have liked her a little more. There were times I thought she was going to be rational, and then she just turns a 180.



I don't think death is an excuse to treat others like crap. It should be a reason to treat everyone better, because death can come at any time. But, some people don't think that. It's a realistic adaption of how a teenage girl could react. It's understandable.



There wasn't really any character development. I didn't find out much about Ben and Fletcher. But I still believe they both deserve better than Arianna. They were kind-hearted and only wanted the best for her. Very forgiving boys.



Oh man the popular crowd, though. I wanted to go in the book and punch those girls for being awful waste of spaces. "Oh sweetie, I don't need you, you need me." Please. I don't know how anyone could spend 2 seconds with them, let alone an entire year.



The families of Ben and Arianna were annoying. They expected her to keep the plans she had when she was 8. Seriously?? Plans change. It's possible to change your mind about what you want to do and who you want to marry. They were pressuring her and that's why she pushed away for a year. There are parents out there like that, which blows my mind. So in that sense, it does make me feel a little sympathy for Arianna and it shows a reasoning of why she was acting the way she was.



I think this book could've been better. I enjoyed her adventure towards the end of the book. And I liked when she was by Ben's side. She was just so irrational, it was hard to take sometimes. All characters aren't likeable, but it's hard when the main character isn't. Summer would've never wanted Arianna to stop living. She wouldn't have cared if plans would've changed if that's truly what Arianna wanted.



Thank you to the author and I would recommend this after it goes through another 2 editing sessions.