A summer of secrets - Unputdownable!!
Breezy, sweet, witty, romantic, adorable, fun, and heart breaks packed into some 500 pages. The dialogues are too good after a long time I have read something with sharp and witty exchanges. (Last I read was in of course Love Story :)) Once you begin, you hardly notice how time flies and you are engulfed into the story of Hope, Adam, Julie, Logan....all likable and easy to relate characters. They have all been through with what we have been through or going through.
The story revolves around Hope and how she, one of the few survivors of a plane crash, copes with her post traumatic stress. And along with her fight for surviving and getting back to 'Normal' the others join in - her best friends and house mates Adam and Julie, her shrink Tim, her neighbor Logan and others...each coming victorious at the end.
Hope a drifter of jobs who cant hold to a single job and has switched 16 times. She has been fired or made herself fired from all. Adam who is good at his job or so what it seems till he lets out his secrets. Julie feels ashamed of herself when she realizes that she is so shallow she falls in love with men because they were financially secured or pretended to be but not for who they were. Each harbors within them a lot of secrets and we see how they cope with that and how it gives strength to Hope to cope.
It all sums up to that we can't run away from our past, it's ok to make mistakes, we shouldn't lose control trying to control, a family is after all made of humans and no one is perfect, it's ok to be not so perfect children / partner to a not so perfect parent / partner. Each one is trying to fight their own battle and survive in the best possible way.
Highly recommended do read - A summer of secrets by Martina Reilly.
The story revolves around Hope and how she, one of the few survivors of a plane crash, copes with her post traumatic stress. And along with her fight for surviving and getting back to 'Normal' the others join in - her best friends and house mates Adam and Julie, her shrink Tim, her neighbor Logan and others...each coming victorious at the end.
Hope a drifter of jobs who cant hold to a single job and has switched 16 times. She has been fired or made herself fired from all. Adam who is good at his job or so what it seems till he lets out his secrets. Julie feels ashamed of herself when she realizes that she is so shallow she falls in love with men because they were financially secured or pretended to be but not for who they were. Each harbors within them a lot of secrets and we see how they cope with that and how it gives strength to Hope to cope.
It all sums up to that we can't run away from our past, it's ok to make mistakes, we shouldn't lose control trying to control, a family is after all made of humans and no one is perfect, it's ok to be not so perfect children / partner to a not so perfect parent / partner. Each one is trying to fight their own battle and survive in the best possible way.
Highly recommended do read - A summer of secrets by Martina Reilly.
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