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Summary
Three months
Two changed fates
One chance to fall in love
Aiden Emerson is an all-star pitcher and the all-around golden boy of Riverton. Or at least he was, before he quit the team the last day of junior year without any explanation. How could he tell people he's losing his vision at seventeen?
Straight-laced Olivia thought she had life all figured out. But when her dream internship falls apart, her estranged mother comes back into her life, and her longtime boyfriend ghosts her right before summer break, she starts to think fate has a weird sense of humor.
Each struggling to find a new direction, Aiden and Olivia decide to live summer by chance, letting coin flips, card pulls, and rock, paper, scissors make all the hard decisions. Every fleeting adventure and stolen kiss is as fragile as a coin flip in this heartfelt journey to love and self-discovery from the author of Love Songs & Other Lies .
Author Notes
JESSICA PENNINGTON is no stranger to the combination of love and drama. She's a wedding planner, after all. Jessica likes the challenge of finding the humor in a sad situation or highlighting the awkwardness in a romantic one. A serial entrepreneur with a BA in Public Relations, Jessica has a passion for grassroots marketing. She lives in a Michigan beach town suspiciously similar to the one in her novel, where she owns more YA novels than many teens and spends most of her time on a laptop, rather than a beach. Her debut novel was Love Songs & Other Lies.
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
At a crossroads before senior year, Olivia and Aiden find hope and new directions while spending the summer working together near Lake Michigan.Bringing the small-town Michigan setting evocatively to the forefront, Pennington's (Love Songs Other Lies, 2018) sophomore novel captures the pleasures of new love. Told from dual first-person perspectives, the novel follows Oliviawho is reeling from her first breakup from serious boyfriend Zander; not getting a hoped-for writing job; and learning she soon has to move to Arizonaand local star pitcher Aiden, her co-worker at his family's vacation boat rental store. Aiden has recently quit the baseball team (much to the dismay of his school and community) due to a vision impairment, and he hopes to pursue his passion for art. Surrounded by the rivers, lake, and sand dunes, this unlikely match (Zander was Aiden's catcher) intrepidly explore new possibilities in life and love together. Aiden's loss of vision is problematically never medically explained or fully contextualized and is used more as an inconsistent plot device rather than rounding out his characterization or offering readers true representation. Easier to overlook are some loose plot threads left untethered. All main characters are assumed white.Despite hitting a few sandbars, fans of summer love will stay adrift in this outdoorsy romance. (Fiction. 12-18) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
