Okay, I’m going to retract that sentence from this point on 😂 in some ways. Because Jeremiah does know how to treat a girl like a queen, but we don’t condone cheaters. 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. You know, honestly, if we had seen more of this vulnerable, honest, caring, cute, and banterish Conrad in the other books, maybe I would have been team Bonrad sooner. I mean, I just really liked this version of Conrad who wasn’t an a**. Laurel knew the under text of Conrad’s meaning. We all knew. Because he wouldn’t have inserted himself into the situation if he wasn’t torn up about Belly crying and wanting to help her because he loved her and wanted her to be happy. Laurel knew Conrad loved Belly, but wasn’t going to push him on it because that’s not their style.

I loved that he did that. I loved how he let her enjoy the fresh peaches at the market and how she shared the taste of the peaches with him. OH MY GOODNESS, the moment when he took his shirt sleeve and wiped peach juice from her mouth 🙈!! Where was this move two years ago 🤪? Dang, sis I was shaking too. Belly dismisses her fears as groundless until she overhears Lacie saying she slept with Jeremiah during spring break. Jeremiah admits that what she said is true, and Belly slaps him, utterly devasted by his betrayal. She tells him they’re finished. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other’s lives without being everything to each other.” (pg. 54) Like I said earlier, I was bothered. I didn’t want to believe that our sweet Jeremiah Fisher would cheat because that seemed like the last thing he would do.The next day, Jere still wasn’t there for the wedding. I was like, “Sis, why are we getting ready when we weren’t even sure Jere was going to show up after running off last night.” But I loved how Taylor and Steven were a united team in Belly’s happiness, and again how they consulate reassured her how she could call off the wedding. The fact that their wedding day was also a gloomy day felt like a bad omen 😅—gloomy weather fit the somber mood. It didn’t even feel like a happy day or that Belly wanted to go through with it.

Before the wedding, Laurel and Conrad also had such a tender and sweet conversation that made me CRY my heart out 😭! It just felt like such a magical moment. At the garden dedication event, Conrad arrives late and the narration switches to his point of view. Conrad still loves Belly, though he’s aware he has no right to discuss his feelings with her since he treated her badly when they were together and she’s now in a long-term relationship with his brother. I also wonder if they will have more summers in Cousin’s and if they will keep that tradition alive. I like to think they will and that when Conrad and Belly have kids they will bring them there. Or when Steven and Jere has kids, that they will go to Cousins. They can keep the cycle and romance going with the kids too 😂. Oh wait, that would be weird because they would be related at that point 😂. But I hope that they do have many summers in Cousins. That day , without another word about it, we decided to leave the past in the past. The future was where we were headed.” (pg. 59) 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:I feel like a part of Laurel died that day when Jere announced that her seventeen-turning-eighteen year old daughter was engaged 😅.

I just applaud Jenny for making me hurt for Jere and how pained he was to know that Belly would never love him the same way, for Conrad who was losing the love of his life and his brother, and for Bely who had to break one of their good hearts. I grieved for their brothers hip and friendships. It was so hard to read that conversation and the last part of the book in general 💔. Then there was when Jere wanted to go on a last minute Cabo trip with his frat brothers and that he was going without Belly. Belly felt nervous and kind of jealous that Jere was going to Cabo with his frat brothers and the sorority sisters, knowing one of them, Laci Barone, very much had a thing for Jere. I agreed that Jere should have done better to reassure Belly that he could trust him because just saying “If you’re worried, you should come with,” just made it seem like she needed to watch him rather than trust him. But then again, guys at this age don’t’ know what they are saying and don’t think about the implicit mean gin so it’s not like he could have read her mind to know how she felt. I think she should have said how she really felt. But then there were both getting angry at each other because she was nervous about him going and Lacie there but also knowing she didn’t want to go because she was going home to her family. Then she made a dig at his fraternity being stupid and something about an inferiority complex because Jere wasn’t premed like Conrad and just a frat boy. So then Jere was like “Let’s end it now,” which they were both in the heat of the moment and saying things they didn’t mean but always thought. 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. Honestly, I’m proud of Conrad and all that he had to endure in all these years and how he tried his best when he wasn’t doing his best—when he didn’t let anyone in. The Summer I Turned Pretty fans will no doubt already know that the series is based on the iconic Jenny Han trilogy of the same name. Like the series, the books put Belly in a love triangle – well, square – with three boys vying for her attention. There's Cam, her kind, first boyfriend. Conrad, her broody first crush. And Jeremiah, Conrad's charming brother.Based on the popular YA trilogy by Jenny Han, which includes "It's Not Summer Without You" and "We'll Always Have Summer," the series takes us into the lives of two families who spend every summer together in a fictional Massachusetts town called Cousins Beach because their moms are best friends. Laurel's kids, daughter Belly and older brother Steven, are best friends with Susannah's sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Conrad has had Belly's heart since she was 10, but it's his younger brother Jeremiah who's more willing to openly return her feelings and doesn't play games. Caught between the love of two brothers, Belly is forced to figure out who she really wants. Told primarily over the course of the warmest months of the year, the series serves as a coming-of-age story for the teens in both families. I need you you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you. It was all worth it.'” (pg. 276) 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. Belly and Jeremiah plan to get married at Susannah's iconic beach home in Cousins in the third book. While planning, Belly finds out that Conrad has been living there. It's not long before she realises that she actually loves him. Belly and Jeremiah break up and Belly moves to Spain to study abroad. Conrad then begins writing her romantic letters.