Summer Girls

Summer Girls

Jennifer Dugan

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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From the author of Some Girls Do comes a YA sapphic romance about two girls from different sides of the tracks.Cass has a rule about dating summer girls—just say no. Every year the idyllic beach town Cass's working-class family calls home is flooded with summer girls, the obnoxious daughters of the rich, who stay in their families' summer homes, sail their yachts, and generally make things unbearable for townies like Cass.Birdie is the ultimate summer girl. She’s the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer dad and a social media influencer mom, and this summer Birdie happens to be in big trouble for accidentally crashing her boyfriend's very expensive car.As punishment, Birdie must spend the summer with her father at the beach—but it won't be a vacation. He's enlisted the help of Cass, whose dad works for him, to keep Birdie on the straight and narrow, including getting her a job as a beach parking lot attendant.As the summer heats up, Cass realizes some rules are made to be broken, and Birdie just might be different from other summer girls. Soon they can't help falling for one another . . . But will the love the two girls have discovered be strong enough to overcome their differences?

Publication Year: 2025


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  • bookishemma
    May 05, 2025
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  • queerlybeloved
    May 29, 2025
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    "now she's my summer girl, and i'm never going to let her go." 🤍

    EEEEEEK i loved this book!!! the BIGGEST thank you to Jenn for getting me an arc and letting me fall in love with Cass and Birdie just in time for pub day 🤍

    these summer girls have my heart!! i love them both so much. they're flawed and messy and emotional and have so much yearning and passion and just want to fight for what they love with everything they have. i was so proud of all their growth and their commitments and the ways they opened up to each other. was there miscommunication? sure. situationally it made a boatload of sense. and they're 17 & 18! they're bound to!! and being queer/coming out is hard!! and the conflicts with their class and wealth differences were definitely a sticking point, but i loved how everything was handled. 

    i loved it! i really loved it! thanks again, Jenn 🤍

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  • May 27, 2025
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    Thank you NetGalley for access to the e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Storygram Tours and Penguin Teen for sending me a finished copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This book was honestly not what I was expecting it to be, but in a good way. Watching Birdie and Cass go from true enemies to lovers was amazing, and reading about Birdie growing and learning more about herself really had me emotional. There is a lot of issues mentioned in this book that really should be talked about more, including classism and gentrification, as well as using children for views, likes, and follows. I genuinely enjoyed having the dual POV in this book as well, it definitely added to the story getting both perspectives. Overall I definitely recommend this book to others!

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