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Author:

Kay, Lauren, author.

HarperCollins (Firm), publisher.

ISBN:

9780063230996

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

306 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

"The last thing highly organized Olivia Schwartz wants to do the summer before her senior year of high school is go on a cruise with her parents and younger brothers, so when Olivia meets charming, exciting Sebastian, she feels like she can have fun, but when past secrets come to light, Olivia must face the long-ignored truths about herself, Sebastian, her older brother's death years before, the past she thought she understood and the future she's always planned"-- Provided by publisher

Olivia plans to achieve a perfect SAT score, attend a prestigious college, and become a doctor. The last thing she wants to do this summer is go on a cruise with her parents, younger brothers, and the weight that hangs over the family since her older brother's death. Sebastian isn't part of her plan: he's charming, exciting, and reckless. He's also fun. When past secrets begin to come to light, Olivia begins to question the past she thought she understood- and the future she's always planned. -- adapted from jacket

Subject Term:

Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.

Cruise ships -- Juvenile fiction.

Vacations -- Juvenile fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Cruise ships -- Fiction.

Vacations -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Adolescents -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.

Paquebots de croisière -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement.

Cruise ships

Interpersonal relations

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HarperCollins (Firm),

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Summary

This rom-com debut has the fierce girl energy of the movie Booksmart, blended with the awkwardness of Kelly Quindlen's Late to the Party, topped with a thrilling international meet-cute a la Love and Gelato.

Olivia Schwartz has a plan. It's even color-coded.

And the plan is this: a perfect SAT score, a prestigious college, and a straight path towards her dream of becoming a doctor.

The last thing she wants to do--the summer before her senior year of high school, no less--is go on a cruise. Especially with her parents, younger brothers, and all the unspoken things between them since her older brother's death so many years ago.

Then Olivia meets Sebastian. He's everything she's not: charming, exciting, willing to take risks and run with them. For the first time, Olivia feels like she can have fun...

But there's a lot bubbling up under the surface on this cruise, and when past secrets begin to come to light, Olivia must face all the truths that she's ignored for so long: about herself, Sebastian, her brother, the past she thought she understood, and the future she's always planned.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A complicated story of family dysfunction blended with a frothy romance. Seventeen-year-old Olivia Schwartz's drive masks the intense anxiety she's carried since finding her beloved older brother dead six years ago. Her parents never mention Logan; her 5-year-old twin brothers don't even know he existed. But on a family cruise, carefree Jules--an old summer camp friend who happens to be there too--tempts Olivia to put aside the science fair research that could get her a prestigious internship with a surgeon, drink alcohol to ease her social awkwardness (consider it "a trial run" for college parties, Jules says), and go after sexy fellow passenger Sebastian. Olivia's deep repression starts to ease as she tries a more relaxed teen life for the first time, but when she opens up about Logan, Sebastian and Jules keep saying things about him that bother her, leading to an explosive revelation that shakes up Olivia's understanding of her family. Wooden characters serve only to reflect and refract Olivia's story, and the thin plot contrivances are distracting. The thematic disconnect is troubling: This is both a book in which addiction is a leitmotif and also one in which problematic drinking is normalized, as Olivia repeatedly asks for Jules' flask to ease her emotional distress. Olivia is Jewish, and most characters read White; Jules is cued East Asian, and there is some diversity in race and sexuality in the supporting cast. Tackles deep subjects but misses the mark. (Fiction. 13-17) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.