Hi Foreverbookers, How are you all. I hope you’re well! I’ve just finished “It Happened One Summer” by Tessa Bailey and I LOVED it! 5 Stars! “It Happened One Summer” is about sisters, Piper and Hannah who need to move to a seaside town after living in LA for their whole lives. This first book, in what I assume is just a duet is primarily about Piper, the elder sibling and seeing her learn to accept herself and become someone new and improved. “It Happened One Summer” read like a literary fiction novel. It was very dense in terms of words and word count more specifically, I thought. What could have been said in one or two sentences was made into long drawn out paragraphs, which in some instances was fine but the novel could have been at least 100 pages less, I think. I still really enjoyed it, though! The novel is told in 3rd person. I generally don’t like third person stories because I feel disconnected from the characters. However in “It Happened One Summer,” I felt all ...
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