The Goodbye Summer

by Sarah Van Name

• ISBN10: 1492677035
• ISBN13: 9781492677031
• Publish Date: 7 May 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 29 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Sourcebooks Fire
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[Briana @ Pages Unbound]

Initial Thoughts: This was...really bad. It's illogical. The characters have no clear motivations. It's really a mystery to me why the protagonist wants to leave before her senior year of high school to "travel" with her boyfriend, and how she thinks she's going to do it while unemployed. There's not real chemistry between them either, just lots of awkward sex scenes. Overall, the book is really just the girl dwelling and dwelling and dwelling on leaving to be a high school drop out, and yet her reasons and thought process are extremely unclear, and the book has to insert a character who didn't go to college and regrets it every few chapters to teach the protagonist a lesson about why this might be a stupid idea. This feels like a bad PSA to tell kids not to drop out of high school rather than an engaging story about complex characters.