Author: Nancy Grossman
Publication: July 17, 2012
By: Disney-Hyperion
3.5 STARS
A summer of firsts
Sixteen-year-old Eliza Miller has never made a phone call, never tried on a pair of jeans, never sat in a darkened theater waiting for a movie to start. She's never even talked to someone her age who isn't Amish, like her.
A summer of good-byes
When she leaves her close-knit family to spend the summer as a nanny in suburban Chicago, a part of her can't wait to leave behind everything she knows. She can't imagine the secrets she will uncover, the friends she will make, the surprises and temptations of a way of life so different from her own.
A summer of impossible choice
Every
minute Eliza spends with her new friend Josh feels as good as listening
to music for the first time, and she wonders whether there might be a
place for her in his world. But as summer wanes, she misses the people
she has left behind, and the plain life she once took for granted. Eliza
will have to decide for herself where she belongs. Whichever choice she
makes, she knows she will lose someone she loves.
Thank you to Disney-Hyperion and Netgalley for this ARC.
This was an
interesting story and not at all what I was expecting. I liked having
the insiders look into the Amish life and seeing the modern world
through Eliza's eyes was entertaining, engaging and heartbreaking. The
depth of this book is what surprised me most and I wasn't expecting to
feel the range of emotions that I did.
While I enjoyed this, the story was slow moving at first and honestly, the ending frustrated me. I wanted to know what happened next?! An Epilogue showing a few months or years into the future would've been nice.
**POTENTIAL SPOILERS**
You can't give me a guy like Daniel and NOT tell me what happens to him?! *cries* Also, I wanted Josh to fight harder. Say those words. Be different than Matthew. If there'd been an Epilogue, Eliza would've either chosen Daniel or Josh would've kept in touch and shown up for her after college, etc. Also, what did Eliza decide to do?
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