Pub. Date: May 7, 2013
Publisher: Hyperion / Disney Book Group
Format: Hardcover
294 pages
For Cricket Thompson, the summer before her senior
year looks like it will be nearly perfect. Her school Lacrosse team has just
won the championship game, and her best friend Jules Clayton’s family has
invited her to spend the summer on Nantucket Island. A summer on Nantucket
means not only a great time with the Claytons, but a summer without a crappy
babysitting job, and without having to deal with her fathers new marriage, and
her mothers withdrawal from normalcy.
When the Claytons are unexpectedly shattered by a
death, everything changes. On Nantucket independently, working and living as a maid
at the Cranberry Inn, Cricket does her best to stick to a motto of “lie low,
look good, and learn”. From the beginning of the summer when all of Crickets
plans fall apart along with her relationship with Jules, to the end of the
summer, Cricket gains a lot more than an excellent vacation by falling in love with
the one person she knew she should have stay away from.
Nantucket
Blue is the perfect summer read that you won’t want to put down. Everything
about Cricket is real. She is the girl next door that you want to be friends
with, the self-conscious girl you will relate to, and the girl with a romantic
life that is anything but perfect, but most definitely desirable. Some serious
problems/issues are touched on, but Howland keep these struggles on the lighter
side, and pairs the lows with some really great highs. While you may not envy
cleaning washrooms and changing duvets, you will wish you could spend the
summer in Cricket’s Nantucket.
A really great read from a first time author, I
can’t wait to see what Howland publishes next.
Perfect for teens and adults alike.
Rating 9/10
** I received a copy of this book from the publisher to read and honestly review. I was in no way compensated
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