I am not sure what I was expecting from this book, but I loved most of it.  I am not a devote of Demi Lovato, so I didn’t know that “Cool for The Summer” was a song about sexually experimenting in summer.  I also did know Demi changed a lyric from “don’t go” to “no go”.    Hopefully, I didn’t just give the book away. 

 

Lara has had the biggest crush on Chase Harding for as long as she can remember.  Her senior year, he finally has a crush right back.  Everything should be prefect, but there is a nagging that things are just not right.  You see, over the summer, Lara hooked up with a girl.  Her mom’s boss’s daughter to be exact.  

 

This story is told in two time periods consecutively.  The “now” is when Lara is with Chase, and the “then” is how Lara and Jasmine went from acquaintances to much more.  Both parts of these stories are interesting, but the “now” timeline gets a kink when Lara walks into school and finds out that Jasmine has moved in with her dad, and now goes to her school too.  Chase is her dream. Jasmine was just her summer.  But why does she fell so awful.  

 

I loved this book.  It is heavy on tropes such as mis communication, but it’s the ride of the story that makes it worth it.  It does have some dry points, and one does get a bit tired of the two ladies trying to upstage, ignore, but also make each other jealous.  But it’s teenage love.  That is the drama for which one picks up this book.  Now is this the best sapphic teen romance there is, no, but it was well done, a bit sappy, and just fun.  It left this reader with a smile on their face at the end, like a good romance should.