Ashlyn Zanotti has big plans for the summer. She’s just spent a year at boarding school and can’t wait to get home. But when Ashlyn’s father is arrested for tax evasion and her mother enters a rehab facility for “exhaustion,” a.k.a. depression, her life is turned upside down.
The cherry on top? Ashlyn’s father sends her to work with a cousin she doesn’t even know at a rustic team-building retreat center in the middle of nowhere. A self-proclaimed “indoor girl,” not even Ash’s habit of leaving breadcrumb quotes—inspirational sayings she scribbles everywhere—can help her cope.
With a dangerously careless camp manager doling out grunt work, an overbearing father trying to control her even from prison, and more than a little boy drama to struggle with, the summer is full of challenges. And Ashlyn must make the toughest decision of her life: keep quiet and follow her dad’s marching orders, or find the courage to finally stand up to her father to have any hope of finding her way back home.
*Before I jump into the review, I want to thank TheFFBC for having me on tour and to the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own and having an ARC did NOT impact my feelings and thoughts on the book.*
Ashlyn is used to living an easy life and avoiding her dad at all costs. After getting involved with one wrong guy, her dad shipped her off to boarding school forcing her to learn responsibility. But when her dad is arrested for tax evasion and her mom goes to rehab for depression, she has no choice but to spend the summer with her cousin she hasn’t seen in years.
I really loved this book. I have always loved summer books and this one was no different. Ashlyn starts as a character who is used to taking instructions from others and waiting for people to tell her what to do, but as the book continues she grows into her own person.
I loved how family played a big role of this novel and how Ashlyn and Hannah slowly become better friends. We see Ashlyn grow and learn to trust her family and make more friends.
We see her finding herself in some of the similar situations that got her in trouble with boys, but this time she makes the choices she should have made in the first place.
I love how this is a mixture of a summer camp and just a regular summer book. It was so much fun and so good!
I HATED Deb, but I think that was the point of the novel. You weren’t supposed to like her.
I really really liked this book and I am very excited to read more of Christina June’s books!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christina June writes young adult contemporary fiction when she’s not writing college recommenda-tion letters during her day job as a school counselor. She loves the little moments in life that help someone discover who they’re meant to become –whether it’s her students or her characters. Christina is a voracious reader, loves to travel, and hopes to one day be bicoastal –the east coast of the US and the east coast of Scotland. She lives just outside Washington DC with her husband and daughter.
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Starts:5/27/19 Ends:6/7/19