I think this was certainly an interesting story and captures the complexity of realizing your sexuality. She also didn’t tell her friends just how she spent the summer, so keeping the fact that she even knew Jasmine before the school year, along with Chase flirting with her, confuses her even more. She never had feelings about other girls before, but she can’t stop thinking about Jasmine despite the fact that Chase finally likes her back after six years. This book follows Lara as she realizes that she’s bisexual. She’s stunned, only to turn around and see that Jasmine has transferred to her school, which doesn’t help the fact that she can’t stop thinking about her. Now, the school year’s just started and suddenly Lara’s crush of many years is liking her back. There, she meets her mother’s boss’s daughter, Jasmine, to whom she inexplicably becomes closer and closer over the course of the summer. This past summer, Lara was forced to tag along with her mother to her boss’s beach house. Cool for the Summer follows a journey of self-discovery. When I first heard about this book, I knew I had to read it like, a bisexual protagonist who’s finally got the boy of her dreams but can’t stop thinking about the girl she met over the summer? Unfortunately, it fell incredibly flat to me.

And it’s about the people who will let us be who we are. It’s about the things we want and the things we need. But if she’s finally got the guy, why can’t she stop thinking about the girl?Ĭool for the Summer is a story of self-discovery and new love. Lara has everything she ever wanted: a tight-knit group of friends, a job that borders on cool, and Chase, the boy of her literal dreams. A memory that becomes a confusing, disorienting present when Jasmine herself walks through the front doors of the school to see Lara and Chase chatting it up in front of the lockers.

A memory of a confusing, romantic, strangely perfect summer spent with a girl named Jasmine. Maybe…flirting, even? No, wait, he’s definitely flirting, which is pretty much the sum of everything Lara’s wanted out of life.Įxcept she’s haunted by a memory. He’s tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Summary: Lara’s had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. Rep: bisexual Jewish protagonist, bisexual Jewish Syrian-American love interest, Japanese-American side character, aromantic asexual Black side character Book: Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler