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Summer Sisters

Written by Judy Blume

Narrated by Kate Reading

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, an enchanting place where the two friends become "summer sisters."

Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin begs Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go-because she wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer. And, after all these years, she needs to know why her best friend-her summer sister-still has the power to break her heart.

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Release dateJun 2, 2015
ISBN9780147525918
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Summer Sisters
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Judy Blume

Judy Blume has been winning legions of fans around the world with her stories. More than eighty-two million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-two languages. She receives thousands of letters every month from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. In addition to her hilarious Fudge books, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Superfudge, Fudge-a-Mania and Double Fudge, some of her incredibly popular books include The Pain and the Great One series and Freckle Juice. Judy lives in Key West, Florida, and New York City with her husband.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Summer Sisters is the story of two unlikely friends. Caitlin (Cait) and Victoria (Vix) are the summer sisters. Vix life changes when Cait invites Victoria to her father's on Martha's Vineyard during the summer. Caitlin is privileged while Vix family struggles to survive. The two girls start their relationship at the age of 12 and follows them through till they turn 30. Vix is a very shy, quiet and considers herself ordinary, while Cait comes from a divorced wealthy family. Vix is thrilled that Cait wants to be her friend and invites her to spend the summer with her at her father's place. I found myself actually feeling for the characters. I felt sorry for Vix at times for the way Caitlin would treat her. Cait was very reckless and did help Vix expand her experiences. I did find myself laughing at times.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of my favorite Judy Blume books and a definite re-read. Vix and Caitlin seem to be polar opposites in so many ways, yet the bond that they form transcends boys, social status, years apart, betrayal, and so much more.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Disappointing. Judy Blume should stick to Fudge.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I was halfway through this book, but I didn't care enough about the story to give up the space in my carry-on when I flew across country for a week. When I got back, I decided to finish it. Turns out, I don't care any more about the story now that I've finished it than I did when I left it at home last week.None of the characters interested me. The writing was not at all nuanced. The novel reads like a YA novel but with lots of creepily vivid descriptions of sex acts. There are sections supposedly from the point of view of different characters, but everyone sounds like the same brand of shallow as everyone else.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The adolescent tale of Vix and Caitlin. The two become friends in middle school and remain so into adulthood. Vix's family struggles financially , her mother is cold and resentful, her father quiet and reserved, her siblings detached. Caitlin's family is rich and she is spoiled. Blessed with beauty and the opportunities that come from wealth nothing is beyond her reach. Caitlin manipulates everyone she meets most especially Vix. Vix is brilliant, Caitlin could care less about school. Where Vix is cautious Caitlin and fearless and irresponsible. The novel takes us from middle school through adulthood. Through first loves, abortions, college, and marriage.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a story about the start of an friendship. Vacationing at Martha's Vineyard each summer, since they were in sixth grade.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a decent story if you don't mind explicit sex peppered throughout. It has a couple surprising turns very near the end. I felt as though I was reading a book for adolescents that I wouldn't give to an adolescent to read. The author is good at dissecting relationships and takes a realistic look at various kinds of people. That part was true to life, at least with many of the characters, maybe with all of them.

    This isn't a book I'd recommend or pass on, but that doesn't mean it's not a good read for some. The kinds of books we all like are as personal as the kind of art and music we like.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very good book, basically a coming of age story. My mother didn't like it, she said it was too vulgar... But a friend of mine read it too, and we both still talk and laugh about things from this book. I enjoyed it!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The perfect beach read!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Update: decided to read it... did so in two days... very good, maybe a bit like Fannie Flagg but no Sweet Tea and lots more sex, and some heartache.... recommended if you like stories of friends' coming-of-age kinda thing....
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Catlin and Victoria "Vix" grow up as "Summer Sisters." They discover their Power, boys, the world, and secrets about each other. Summer Sisters is a discovery, coming of age story. Interesting, I loved the Power.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I haven't read this book in ages, but I adore it. I still recommend it to all my friends looking for a good book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Summer Sisters by Judy BlumeThis novel is about two females who meet while in the 6th grade. Caitlin and Victoria. Vic had never been near the ocean and Cat had asked her to spend the summer with her family.She is thrown into the life of leisure, everything at your fingertips, the elite. Such a shock as she grew up in the lower class section of town.Books starts in the present and goes back in time and forward and is broken up into sections.Catilain's dad marries Abby and she runs the household now. Girls have been introduced to many things growing up, nude beach, lesbian, etc.Steamy sex scenes as they are introduced to nudity and sex and drugs as teens. We learn more of each of their families.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a book about 2 women who are childhood friends, and it follows them from summer to summer as they grow up and figure out who they are. To be honest neither of the characters was very appealing, but they were interesting enough to make me care. The book gets increasingly depressing and by the end I was ready to be done with it. I'm not against a book making me feel things, but this one was pretty bleak.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When 12 year old Caitlin invites Vix to spend the holidays at her father's summer home a friendship develops that extends to adulthood.Enjoyable read with interesting characters. And Blume depicts in a realistic way the ambivalences between friends, and the power and limitations of being in love, and the frictions within families.It's quite rare to pick up a novel and, after a chapter or two, not know how it will pan out. I didn't with this, which is a big plus. The choices the girls made surprised me & were very believable.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Summer Sisters wasn’t bad, but I feel like it could have been better.Vix and Caitlin have a relationship that is simple and complicated all at once. Vix just falls into it, really. Caitlin decides she likes her, and that’s all it takes. Because Caitlin always gets what she wants. She’s the wild child, Vix is her shadow.The book spends a lot of time in their teen years, which is part of its weakness. I thought it would have been more interesting to explore their relationships after high school and college, but it seemed like Blume was more comfortable writing them as teens.I had a hard time suspending disbelief when it came to Vix’s family. I can sorta buy her parents letting her go off across the country with a family they don’t really know, but after a family tragedy, her family basically disappears from her life. It was weird.I also didn’t really care for the little one-two page pieces from the point of view of minor characters. Sometimes they added a different perspective, but more often than not they were just noise.Overall this wasn’t a bad read — I never felt like putting it down for good — but I think it could have been a lot better.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Good escape beach reading about how a poor girl from New Mexico came to be part of a wealthy family’s summers on Cape Cod. If nothing else, one realizes from the end that money doesn’t solve all problems.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Before reading Summer Sisters I hadn’t read a book by Judy Blume in what feels like ages, but I’ve always been of a huge fan of her middle grade books and I couldn’t wait to read something from her aimed towards older reads. Thankfully, I had a mostly free day when I started reading because I couldn’t put the book down. The characters were great and despite some of their actions I can’t say that there’s one that I really dislike. The writing made me nostalgic— now that I’ve finished reading I feel like I need to call my best friend on the other side of the country and catch up. Summer Sisters has instantly become one of my favorites.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm continually conflicted by Judy Blume's "adult" novels. I don't mean Wifey adult, but you know. Aimed at grown-ups. I was sucked into this book, but I didn't necessarily like it. It had its moments. It was a little risque (if that's how you spell it? risk-AY!). Very L-I-T-E lite read. Or this: I enjoyed it, but didn't like it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Oh man... I really wanted this to be a Judy Blume book that made me feel like all the other Judy Blume books did... but it didn't.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was better than I expected it to be ... I definitely could see traces of the Judy Blume I read as a kid, and it wasn't *all* about sex but about family and friendships.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I write novels, so maybe I read Summer Sisters differently from most folks, but I've just finished my fourth or fifth rereading and still find it fascinating for its failures. I mean, really, the entire plot hinges on the relationship of Victoria and Bru and yet we never learn anything about what they do together — other than apparently constant, endless sex. I know more about Victoria's level of moistness (always very wet) than what they talk about, if anything. Victoria is a smart young woman who becomes a Harvard student while Bru is a fairly simple non-college construction worker — this would be a fascinating relationship if Judy Blume wanted to tell us something beyond moisture levels. Surely they can’t spend every moment making passionate love. Do they ever talk? I’m a construction worker myself, and I’m married to a very smart woman, so I know there’s a lot of balance, a lot of recalibration and mutual respect, that needs to happen — and we get nothing in this story.My theory is that Judy Blume wrote an outline for this book and then started filling in the pieces, but — perhaps due to advancing age — found she was unable or unwilling to complete all the parts. The first 100 pages are the good Judy Blume with her full powers as a writer. Then it becomes fragmented. Maybe as the characters grew up, she was less interested or less able to imagine their thoughts. Or maybe she just got sick of it, but her agent told her to pile up the pieces and stitch together whatever she'd written so she could sell it.And yet, I've read it four or five times. The opening is that good. If you read it and at some point find yourself losing interest, it's okay to drop out. But the beginning, the friendship of the two girls, is dead-on, Judy Blume at her best.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Amazed. This book amazes me on so many levels. Originally, I picked up this book to see what Judy Blume as an "Adult Author" was all about. I read every book by her when I was growing up. I have to admit, I did not expect what I read. The plot line was so complex and the characters literally came to life as you read the story. We have all had "that friend" before. Their friends ship starts at such a young age and grows from there. As per normal friendships, they have ups and downs, disagreements, triumphs and disappointments. Vix becomes part of Caitlin's family in ever sense of the word. From the shores of Martha's Vineyard to her home in Arizona, to making it at her job in New York, we follow them on a journey of discovery, love, loss and adventure.I like to grab this book, curl up by a fire and imagine myself lost on the shores of the vineyard. I would have to say my favorite part of this is "watching" the two of them grow into their own. You will laugh, cry, yell and cry some more. Judy Blume touches just about every part of your heart with this one. It is written very realistically. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did. This is one for my "favorite book" shelf!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is said to be an adult book by Judy Blume. I am thinking it is a coming of age story that is appropraite for young adults. The basics: spoiled rich giel befriends poor girl and as a result poor kid's has a life vastly different than she or anyone else would have envisioned. Is this a bad thing? Not at all but it does come with a price. The book is rather tidy. There are neat realtionships, even the relationships that should cause chaos are managed without much difficulty. Would I recommend this book? Depends on the type of read the person asking is looking to read. If you are a fan of Ann Brashares' "The Last Summer (of You and Me), this is a book you would enjoy.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Laugh everytime when I see my friend who read it too. We are "[book:summer sisters]" now because we share the bond of both having read this book. reads like total over the top psycho-girl trash but with heart.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My favorite book of all times, read it every summer for ten years now.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A good book that looks at the lives of two girls from teenagers through adulthood and the issues that these two women face. One aspect that I liked in this book was the pages where Blume lets inside the head of some of the main characters, like an aside. A very nice aspect of this book. This book gives insight to the fact things are not always what they seem and the grass is not necessarily always greener on the other side.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This probably wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's a favourite of mine from years ago, and is one that I've read over and over.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved this!! First book I've ever listened to on audiobook. Definitely got to know the characters very well. Mainly follows Vix and Caitlyn from the time they're 12 to 32-ish. The two spent summers at Martha's Vineyard, a place where Vix claimed the best and worst moments of her life happened their. I loved Vix and I loved to hate Caitlyn. (And of course I love Judy Blume like no other)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Perfect summertime entertainment. Characters were likeable and honest. I even found myself routing for a happy ending. Fun to rediscover Judy Blume after 20 years. She still can write a very enjoyable book.