We'll Always Have Summer: Book 3 in the Summer I Turned Pretty Series

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I mean, I love Jelly, but a 1000% no. Not like this. If they were going to get married, I wanted them to do it right and not because he felt guilty for finding out he cheated on her and he wanted to give her a band-aid in the shape of a ring. Also, I just wanted to say that I loved how Jeremiah and Conrad are people with depth and that my perspectives of them changed with this book. I absolutely love love love Jeremiah and I always will because deep down, the root of his person is a kind, funny, sweet, flirty, and caring guy. He’s the kind of guy who will treat you right, know how to make you smile when you are sad, who will always make you laugh, who will snuggle you and always be by your side no questions asked. He’s just an all around great guy and would be a great person to date. I mean, I would love to find a Jeremiah in my life, not going to lie. But as much as he’s such a sweetie, everyone has a darkness and a side that’s not so great. It honest make that person not a great person or cancels out all the good, but there is a side that is human. People are inherently two sides of good and not-so-good and when you’re in a relationship you take the good with the bad. Jeremiah did something and said somethings in this book that made me see that not-so-good part and it bothered me a lot while I read because the not-so-good moments didn’t’ feel like Jeremiah. But it was more like I didn’t want to believe that Jeremiah, our sweetie, would do those things. However, the more I pondered it, the more I realized that, yea, Jeremiah would do those things because of his personality. But when I accepted that Jeremiah wasn’t perfect, I appreciated that he wasn’t perfect—that he was human. That he wasn’t this all around great guy I thought he was because no one is a 100% perfect and we all have things we can work on, and we learned what Jeremiah’s was. Did it make me like him less? No, I just understood him more and learned to forgive him for who he was. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I liked that Jere groveled on his knees, but I didn’t know he was gonna grovel and pull out a ring!!!!!!! It was in that moment that I understood why Laurel and Conrad were always so close. They both were people who kept things inside and didn’t share much with people, but they understood each other. They could take one look and know. Susannah was the person who understood all that Laurel kept inside and for Conrad, that person was Belly. I liked how Laurel sat with Conrad and asked him how he was doing because she knew how broken up he was about this whole wedding. When he told her that this was killing him, I let out a sob 😢. Conrad. Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and even seventeen years old . . . But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important. And Jeremiah, he was going to be my last and every and my always.” (pg. 44)

Chapter Five When we broke up in April, it really did come out of nowhere. Yes, we’d had little fights here and there, but you could hardly even call them fights. Like, there was this time Shay was having a party at her godmother’s country house. She invited a ton of people, and she said I could bring Jeremiah, too. We were gonna get dressed up and dance outside all night long. We’d all just crash there for the weekend, Shay said—it would be a blast. I was just happy to be included. I told Jeremiah about it, and he said he had an intramural soccer game but I should go anyway. I said, “Can’t you just miss it? It’s not like it’s a real game.” It was a bitchy thing to say, but I said it, and I meant it. That was our first fight. Not a real fight, not like yelling or anything, but he was mad and so was I. We always hung out with his friends. In a way it made sense. He already had them, and I was still forming mine. It took time to get close to people, and with me at his frat house all the time, the girls on my hall were bonding without me. And there were other things, too, that annoyed me. Things I’d never known about Jeremiah, things I couldn’t have known from only seeing him in the summer at the beach house. Like how obnoxious he was when he smoked weed with his suitemates and they ate pineapple-and- ham pizza and listened to “Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio and they would laugh for, like, an hour. Also his seasonal allergies. I’d never seen him in the springtime, so I didn’t know he had them. He called me, sneezing like crazy, all stuffed up and pitiful. “Can you come over and hang out with me?” He had to take that thorn out himself, and that’s not easy. It’s not easy to confront your anger and pain and say, I’m removing it from my life and moving on. To figure out what healing looks like.Absolutely not. Don’t he dare call Belly a Bridezilla when she was the only one in the relationship taking the wedding seriously when he absolutely did NOTHING ☹️. It’s so messed up how women are insulted when they get stressed over a wedding because they are warranted a moment. The guys in a heterosexual wedding often times in the past didn’t help out as much in the wedding, so I find it insulting that they thought it okay to make a woman feel “crazy” by calling her a bridezilla. She’s not a bridezilla, she’s stressed and tired because the guy’s lazy butt can’t be bothered to help. And also, I sooo dislike the notion that a wedding is “the girl’s day.” If a person genuinely thinks that, honestly run. It’s not the girl’s wedding, it’s your wedding, if the guy isn’t helping you or taking ownership of the day too like he honest want to share your wedding day with you, then run. Absolutely run because you don’t need that energy for the rest of your life if he is not treating planning your wedding like the partnership it should be. I feel like a part of Laurel died that day when Jere announced that her seventeen-turning-eighteen year old daughter was engaged 😅.

Belly and Jeremiah kiss passionately and often sleep in the same bed. They haven’t had sex in the two years they’ve dated because Belly hasn’t felt that the timing was right.My Jelly heart cried, but I also felt okay about it because they weren’t right for each other. It was hard to admit that. Are you worried about me going on spring break without you?” I could feel my cheeks redden. “No! You can go wherever you want, I don’t care. I just think that it would be nice if you spent some time with your dad. And your mom’s headstone is up. I thought you wanted to go see it.” “Yeah, I do, but I can do all that after school’s out. You can come with me.” He peered at me. “Are you jealous?” “No!” He was grinning now. “Worried about all the wet T-shirt contests?” “No!” I hated that he was making this into a joke. It was infuriating, being the only one who was mad. “If you’re so worried, then just come with us. It’ll be fun.” He did not say, If you are worried, you shouldn’t be. He said, If you are worried, you should come with us. I knew he didn’t mean it that way, but it still bothered me. “You know I can’t afford it. Besides, I don’t want to go to Cabo with you and your ‘bros.’ I’m not going to go and be the only girlfriend and drag down your party.” 26 · jenny han “You wouldn’t be. Josh’s girlfriend, Alison, is going to be there,” Jeremiah said. So Alison had been invited and not me? I sat up straight. “Alison’s going with you guys?” “It’s not like that. Alison’s going with her sorority. They’re getting a bunch of rooms at the same resort as us. But it’s not like we’ll be hanging out with them all the time. We’re gonna do guy stuff, like They really did need Susannah to navigate this absolutely heart-wrenching and complicated situation because she would have known what to say to Jere and Connie to help them through this situation, but they were all hurting and figuring it out together. They were all loving each other through the pain. I appreciated that he felt like shiz and like a trash human being because he deserved to after he broke Belly’s heart and trust. I also appreciated how he regoconized what he lost when he almost did lose Belly by cheating on her. But DANG, proposing to her to prove that she was the only girl for him and that he would never cheat or break her heart again!?!?!?!?! Whether or not the series makes any changes to this storyline going forward remains to be seen. Cam obviously is still in season 2, so anything is possible in season 3 and beyond. Read more about The Summer I Turned Pretty here:

Dang, don’t even get me started on how I don’t know how I was functioning still to read Belly and Jere’s conversation. I loved when Belly went to the grocery store and cooked a whole spaghetti dinner with salad to prove to Conrad that she could eat a healthy meal. He didn’t go home that night, but she left a plate and a bowl out for him of what she made. And the next day, the food was gone and he washed the dish 🥺💚. I’m assuming he ate the food and didn’t throw it away. But it made my heart swell that he still ate her food and cleaned up after himself—such a gentle, sweet Conrad thing to do. When Conrad Fisher told a girl he loved her, he meant it. A girl could believe in that. A girl could maybe bet her whole life on it. He was too late!! But also, the way he did let her go because he loved her and didn’t want to hurt her—he was protecting her. But at the same time, he needed to give himself more credit to have known that if he feared hurting her, to work on not doing so because he did hurt her in the end. But when he told her that he loved Jere, but hated seeing them together, my heart cried because I knew how much he hurt 🥺. He didn’t hate his brother, he hated the situation they were in. Dang, but when he told her to straight up be with him . . . WHERE WAS THIS ENERGY BEFORE?!!! I know, he needed to do some self-growth but dang.Belly went to the Cousin’s house because she had no where else to go. Only thing was Conrad was also at the Cousin’s house and was going to stay there the summer. Honestly, I was more surprised that Jeremiah didn’t feel threatened that Belly was not going to stay in a house with Conrad, her first love!!! I was like, “This can’t be good for him” 😅. A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s a living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.” (pg. 25)

If there is anything I think Taylor wasn’t, it’s not a good friend—if that’s confusing, let me just say that she was a good friend. Even in all those times she might have said something mean, it came from a place of hurt. But Taylor always looked out for Belly’s best interest. When Laurel wasn’t going to support Belly, Belly knew she had to plan the wedding by herself but she had no idea where to begin. I loved loved loved that Taylor was there for her and brought her wedding binder and all the magazines and was there with her yellow legal pad. That’s honestly a great, lifetime friend right there 💚. I loved the moment though when Belly did tell Taylor about her engagement and how supportive Taylor was because she was always Team Belly. I also loved when Belly asked Taylor to be her maid of honor, knowing how long they had been friends and how much they endured together. Characters: Each character was flawed in a perfectly imperfect way that made them human and relatable. I loved getting to really know Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah and how much love they had but how much love connects with pain, a pain that they all carried and that brought them closer to each other eventually. He just wanted Belly to be happy even if that meant he wasn’t the one who was making her happy 😭. Honestly, that’s pure, honest love right there—if they love you to let you go because your happiness matters more. Susannah dies from cancer between the first two books. Before her passing, her relationship with Conrad and Jeremiah's father doesn't improve as much and we don't see her love life progressing any further. I liked how it was fate that Taylor and Belly ended up at the same college because it meant that they still had friendship left in them. Taylor was doing her own thing with her sorority and having her friends and Belly was doing her own thing, but they found a healthier dynamic where they still were in each other’s lives, they were still close, just in a different way.Burton, Carson; Urban, Sasha; Chapman, Wilson (April 28, 2022). "Jenny Han's 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Sets Summer Release Date (TV News Roundup)". Variety . Retrieved 2022-04-28. Belly goes wedding dress shopping with her best friend, Taylor, but feels terrible that her mother isn’t there with her for such a big moment. Jeremiah visits Laurel. He tries to persuade her to accept his and Belly’s marriage plans, but it doesn’t work. Laurel and Belly get into a fight, and Belly moves out of their house and into the Fishers’ beach house. You know, I love a good love triangle because there’s the angst, the drama, the jealously, the wonder about who the person will end up with. In most love triangles, there’s always a clear person who is endgame, and in TSITP series, I always knew who Belly would end up with (and that’s not because this was my second time around reading the series). I just knew. But what I loved about TSITP books, especially We’ll Always Have Summer was how Jenny Han made me so confused, conflicted, and combusted over Jeremiah and Conrad because I genuinely loved them both that it hurt to think about either of them being heartbroken or sad because one of them was going to end up with Belly and the other wasn’t. And it GUTTED me to even think about who Belly would choose because I grew to appreciate both boys because they brought such different storylines and perspectives that I felt a personal well within me that wanted to protect both of them. I feel like it’s the romantic in me that had so much empathy for Jeremiah and Conrad and wanted them to find love . . . but it’s hard when they loved the same girl. But it just is a testament to Jenny Han’s writing that she changed my perspective of Conrad and Jeremiah to find room for them both in my heart. Because both are great but both made mistakes and hurt Belly in monumental ways. They were human though, they both weren’t perfect and I oddly loved that. That’s life. That’s people.