Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno7/10Do the wlw end up together : YesIt might be the wrong season to re

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno7/10Do the wlw end up together : YesIt might be the wrong season to read this, but it feels like summer where I am (yay global warming!) so I might as well embrace it. Georgina has lived on the island her entire life. Her family has always been here, generations of women with something just a little out of the ordinary about them. Georgina’s mother brews potions to cure all manner of ailments, Georgina’s sister Mary can float, and Georgina… well, no one knows yet. She’s coming quickly to her eighteenth birthday, the deadline for latent Fernweh magic. She’s also got one last summer on the island before she heads off to college and the mainland. It’s the perfect time for one last summer fling with one of the birdheads, obsessed ornithologists who flock (hehe) to the island every summer to see Annabella, a one-of-a-kind rare bird (and, according to family lore, Georgina’s great-great-something-aunt). Georgina’s only kissed one girl, and she’s looking to double that number after the arrival of Prue, sister of the newest birdhead and one major cutie. Georgina is actually the sweetest to read, I’ll now share a few quotes of her practically melting after being seen by a cute girl, which is an absolute mood, and basically put the largest smile on my face for the next half hour.“She smiled, picked up her trash, and left me alone in the graveyard to dissolve into a puddle of actual sunshine.”“My whole entire body would erupt into stardust.”“The six most beautiful words in the English language. Maybe! We could! Take a walk!!!”Sound like you? Because I know for a fact this is how my ‘I Just Talked to a Pretty Girl’ brain works.This book starts off as just a whimsical summer read on a mysteriously unpredictable island that seems to exist outside the real world’s weather constraints, so it surprised me when it took a darker turn midway through. Without spoiling too much, when tragedy strikes the island, the islanders prove themselves no better than any other population and turn against those they find different. To give them credit, though, they do get it together later and recognize that evil often rests in the entitled white boy next door. All in all it’s got a sugar sweet romance while also speaking to the importance of not allowing prejudice and superstition to sway your judgment. -- source link

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