Book Review

Title: A Midsummer's Nightmare
Author: Kody Keplinger
Published: June 5, 2012 by Poppy
Pages: Hardcover, 304 pages

5/5 STARS

Whitley Johnson's dream summer with her divorcé dad has turned into a nightmare. She's just met his new fiancée and her kids. The fiancée's son? Whitley's one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin' great.

Worse, she totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn't even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn't "do" friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn't her stepbrother...at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together.

Filled with authenticity and raw emotion, Whitley is Kody Keplinger's most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about.

 

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Review:

   Kody Keplinger has done it again! She turned a story fimiliar to teens and turned it into a fantastic read. She is an amazing writer and I couldn't put A Midsummer's Nightmare down.

   Whitley is a teen who faces problems with her parents after they got a divorce and it results by her drinking and partying to get her mind off of things and be happy. This character reflects many teens that have the similiar problem."Whitley is Kody Keplinger's most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about." I really did and I just loved her character. One of my favorite scenes with her is when she has a breakdown with her father near the end, which actually made me get a tear.

   "The fiancée's son? Whitley's one-night stand from graduation night." Whoa! That part just made the book way more interesting. There was definitely some tension, which just made everything so funny. I fell in love with those two and Keplinger managed to not make things weird, since Nathan and Whitley are future stepbrother and sister.

   In this book we got appearances from characters from Kody Keplinger's first novel, The Duff. We had a small scene with Wesley and Bianca bickering and being cute, I MISS THEM SO MUCH. We also had Harrison who is one of the main characters in this book. I definitely loved that we finally got to know him (he's freaking awesome) since in The Duff we only knew him as Wesley's gay best friend.

   I recommend this book and all of the other novels written by Kody Keplinger, to anybody who wants to read fun and great novels.