simone elkeles how to ruin a summer vacation

So much adorable.īut really, what else would you expect from Simone Elkeles? She tells stories so, so well. It was real and honest and well researched and just lskfgnhshngjwngsa And the romance? Oy. I loved the setting, so different from most YA, and the fact it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows and happiness and there were a lot of dark spots to what seems so shallow. It was this huge source of tension between Amy and those her age in Israel and it was a hurdle they all had to go over together. I learned a lot about the cultural differences and how that effects the way we view each other.

It took a while for me to come to love Amy's new friends and her love interest, but it was meant to be that way. I grew to love Amy and I want to adopt her as my honorary best friend because if she was my actual best friend, my real best friends would probably hurt me. The growth she experiences in How to Ruin a Summer Vacation is incredible and she still has so much more potential. Instead I found myself craving the next books but unable to order them and now that I can, I worry I'll drop everything to read them.Īmy isn't quite as shallow as she seems, but she's pretty close. Part of me worried that this would be ridiculously shallow and silly and I'd hate it, but not even close. Although I'm not sure if I'll read the other two books of the series or any other of Simone Elkeles' books, for that matter. Nevertheless, this book actually made me laugh a couple of times (and quite frankly I'm feeling generous tonight), so I'm giving it 2 stars. Why? Because the most important stuff was never written. So bad, that I caught myself asking: Was Simone Elkeles in some kind of a hurry while writing this book? Was she rushing things so much that she missed some obviously important parts of the storyline? To put it simple-things happened. There is something missing in this story, and it's missing really bad. People, she's very deep into Oompa Loopma Land, that's fo show. And her emotions? Don't even get me started there, 'coz there's nothing positive I can say about that. Her head is a hollow space filled with crazy thoughts, constantly triggered by what appears to be ADD on the loose, and a boobs fixation that's just about over the roof. The protagonist Amy is one of the most annoying characters I've ever encountered in a book. I'm sorry, is it just me or this book actually feels broken and incomplete?

Simone elkeles how to ruin a summer vacation