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That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
3.0

I’m not quite sure how to review this book. Don’t let the cover fool you, this is not a light or happy book. This needs major trigger warnings, especially because of how unexpected the story was. However dark and difficult the story was, it isn’t any less important. The main reasons for my rating comes down to the pacing. The backstory was Infinitely more interesting to me, but it wasn’t a big part of the book. The things that happened in current day were very slow, and I wish there was more with Beatrice. It definitely set an interesting bar for Jennifer Wiener’s books.