Saturday, May 24, 2014

The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy Books by Jenny Han

Book 1: The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Book 2: It’s Not Summer Without You.
Book 3: We’ll Always Have Summer



I really like the ending of this book because of how strong Isabel was. At first, Isabel had to face many problems and hardships involving two boys; Conrad and Jeremiah who are siblings. Three of them had been friends since they were little because of their moms who have been best friends since they were young. Every year, Isabel‘s family will go to Conrad and Jeremiah’s house for summer and they will spend their holidays together. Conrad is Isabel’s crush while Jeremiah is her closest friend and both of them share everything including their secrets together. However, things started to get worst when Jeremiah started to realise his feelings towards Isabel is not only as friends and Conrad who used to keep his true feelings towards Isabel started to take Isabel back from Jeremiah before Isabel started to stop loving him.

The three of them had to face a lot of hardships. After Conrad and Jeremiah’s mother passed away because of breast cancer, they had a broke down and Isabel had a hard time to cheer them again as both of them loved their mother too much. After they had started to moved on and enjoy their college lives, Jeremiah and Isabel started to be in a relationship. Isabel tried to forget about Conrad who rejected her for many times and she started to give up. Jeremiah who started to realise his true feelings towards Isabel confessed to her and their relationship lasted for few months only. During the night before Jeremiah and Isabel’s wedding day, Conrad couldn’t take it anymore and he told Isabel his true feelings. Conrad even told her to not marry Jeremiah and Isabel was confused. She knew that deep inside her heart, she still loved Conrad but at the same time, she couldn’t bear to break Jeremiah’s heart by ruining their wedding day the day after that.

The next day on their wedding day, Jeremiah realised Isabel’s weird attitude and she even postponed their wedding for several hours so that she could think properly about marrying Jeremiah. Jeremiah knew about the incident the night before when Conrad confessed to Isabel about his feelings. Jeremiah knew that Isabel will choose Conrad. Therefore, he had a big fight with Conrad. Susannah, Conrad and Jeremiah’s mother had left a letter for Isabel, Conrad and Jeremiah each for their wedding day. Unfortunately, Jeremiah took Conrad’s letter and after reading it, he broke up with Isabel. Jeremiah knew that Isabel couldn’t love him the same way as she loves Conrad and that’s why he decided to cancel their wedding and broke up. Isabel read the content of the letter and she cried.

Right after that, she knew who is the right person for her and for her future. Finally, Isabel and Conrad got married and their relationship with Jeremiah had become much more better. They stayed as good friends.

“This is our start. This is the moment it becomes real. We are married. We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved.”  -Isabel-

Nur Izzati Noor Azmi
24/05/2014



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