But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on.
In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Most characters are White.Ī bold, unflinching, and utterly enthralling novel. Hopeful notes come with the budding romance between Nora and Georgia. This dissonance in perspective makes for a heartbreaking, brutal, and devastatingly realistic novel. Readers are witnesses to a long process of grooming and to what Georgia-a naïve, earnest kid-instead believes she is experiencing. Summers’ latest masterful thriller takes on the world of wealth and privilege to examine questions of power, predatory behavior, and, ultimately, complicity, and agency. But even while she navigates this world of privilege and power, glamour and deceit, trying to carve a place for herself, she joins forces with Nora, Ashley’s charismatic older sister, to find the culprit. Although her first job there seems to be run-of-the-mill admin work and not quite what Georgia knows she deserves, she believes it is only a matter of time until her beauty takes her places. After she finds the body of 13-year-old Ashley James, raped and dumped by the roadside, Georgia becomes entangled with Matthew and Cleo Hayes, Aspera’s impossibly beautiful and rich owners, who take her under their wing. It’s during the summer that Georgia’s dream of working at members-only resort Aspera comes true-but at a terrible cost and against the wishes of her late mother. All 16-year-old Georgia Avis ever wanted was to be an Aspera girl.
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