Something Like Summer by Jay Bell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I'm writing this review about two (?) years after I read this book for the first time. I highly recommend you give it a try. I bought it on whim, on a day I was home alone, feeling super depressed. I grabbed on to my iphone (bought kindle version), and did not leave my bed or stop reading until I finished it. I still remember laying down with a diet coke at 10am and finishing the book at 7pm, having 3 empty cans of coke around me and a very empty stomach.

it's cliche, it's a coming of age, it has it's moments were you have suspend you disbelieve, but it's sweet, poignant, feel bad then good story. I've read it once more since the first time and it took me 2 days to read and I'm highly considering reading it for a third time.

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I don't write for reviews. Well, technically it seems like I don't write at all lately, but when I do I don't do it hoping for reviews. I do it because I enjoy it, it helps distract me, and helps keep the voices in my head quiet.

However, when you post a story you do wish for a bit of feedback. It's like speaking to an empty room, even though you have things to say, why continue when not even your echo answers back?

I'm not the best at reviewing. I admit it but I'm going to make a compromise with myself to at least leave a one word review when I read something. Because, I don't want the stories I like to fade.