Thursday 1 February 2018

One Crazy Summer VS. Lemons



A meh kind of bracket. We had high hopes for this bracket but ultimately were a bit disappointed by the results. They aren’t terrible books, we didn’t feel we wasted our time but no one in our bracket felt like they were among our most amazing reading experiences.

We read One Crazy Summer first. We felt it took a long time to set up and then ended too quickly. It is the story of three sisters who are sent to spend the summer with a mother who left them years ago. The mom was not a warm and fuzzy character and we wanted to know more about what made her leave her kids and not really want to be in contact with them. Unfortunately, we don’t get a lot of answers to these questions as the book and summer come to an end without resolving this. This book is part of a series and we feel we might get more answers the farther we read into the series. It is set in the 1960s in Los Angeles and deals with serious issues around how people deal with each other based on race - this made it a unique reading experience for some of us. We were left with a lot of questions and that did not make us happy.

Lemons, on the other hand wrapped up everything in its ending but too neatly for some of us who felt the end was too simple. It tells the story of a girl who moves in with a grandfather she’s never known when her mom dies. She makes friends with a boy who wants to find sasquatch and struggles to make friends. Once again we learned a lot about a topic we knew little about but we still had questions about what happened to the mom and the grandpa before that ended their relationship.

Neither book was without faults and most of us gave marks in the 7.5/10 range. When it came to voting two students voted for Lemons and one for One Crazy Summer. I was leaning towards One Crazy Summer but that would have still made it a tie...so in the end we went with the girls votes - majority rules and Lemons will move on.

We look forward to reading something people were very excited about in the next round!

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