Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

The summer after you and me: I really liked this book. I live in long island and i thought this book used the fact of hurricane sandy as a way to relate it back to the relationship that started during this storm. I liked the character of Lucy and how much she went through in this novel. It made me so sad the lucy almost lost her house. I did like the romance was well. It was fun quick read and really fun read. 
 
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 … (mer)

The summer after you and me: I really liked this book. I live in long island and i thought this book used the fact of hurricane sandy as a way to relate it back to the relationship that started during this storm. I liked the character of Lucy and how much she went through in this novel. It made me so sad the lucy almost lost her house. I did like the romance was well. It was fun quick read and really fun read. 
 
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 … (mer)

I enjoyed this one. It's fluffy and cute. I particularly enjoyed the chapter intros which contained excerpts from Lucy's thesis on the mating habits of marine mammals. I found them adorable, charming, and funny.

This book takes place the summer after Sandy as a town works to recover, rebuild, and move on from the tragedy. Mirroring that effort is Lucy's attempt to personally move on from Sandy and the aftermath of a failed attempt of a relationship with the boy next door, Connor.

I really liked Lucy, the main character, which isn't terribly a surprise since when I was her age, I was also bookish, studious, and had ocean-mad. I wanted to be a marine biologist for the longest time and not pursuing that is one of my life's regrets. She also seemed to be a bit uncertain about relationships, preferring facts and clams. Again, I relate.

This is a young adult novel about relationships so there is the predictable flailing around, misunderstandings due to lack of communication, and love triangles. But I never got annoyed with them like I have with other YA novels. Possibly because I liked Lucy and Connor so much, and even the secondary characters, who at the end of the day were just behaving like human beings who tried to do what they thought was right (even when it wasn't).… (mer)