Pages:
323
Publisher:
Macmillan
Release
Date: 5th
May 2016
Edition:
UK proof, review
copy
My
heart is a kaleidoscope, and when we kiss it makes my world unravel…
Last
summer, Gottie’s life fell apart. Her beloved grandfather Grey died and Jason –
the boy to whom she lost her virginity (and her heart) – wouldn’t even hold her
hand at the funeral. This summer, still reeling from twin heartbreaks, Gottie
is lost and alone and burying herself in equations. Until, after five years’
absence, Thomas comes home: former boy next door. Former best friend. Forever
everything. And as life turns upside-down again, she starts to experience
strange blips in time – back to last summer, back to what she should have seen
then…
During
one long, hazy summer, Gottie navigates grief, world-stopping kisses and rips
in the space-time continuum, as she tried to reconcile her first heartbreak
with her last.
Ever since I heard about
Harriet’s debut, I knew it was going to be right up my street. I totally called
it; I loved The Square Root of Summer.
Gottie is drowning in grief. The loss
of her grandfather, Grey, and the unceremonious not-even-dumping from her first
love have left her reeling. She takes comfort in her love of physics and the
combination of her studies and the return of her childhood best friend cause
her to fall into wormholes from the last summer before Thomas left and the last
she spent with Grey. I was a little worried about the physics element as
although I like science, physics was never my thing, but I ended up really
enjoying it. Even though I didn’t understand it! It's so nice to see a heroine
with a love and understanding of such a complex, and stereotypical male,
academic interest and it really set Gottie apart.
It brought up lots of questions
and I had to keep reading to find out the answers: What happened the summer
Grey died? What’s Jason’s deal? Why is Gottie experiencing wormholes and
screenwipes? How? As Gottie’s summers
tangled together, memories came flooding back and things were revealed about
what happened and I just fell more and more in love with her and the rest of
the characters. Everyone is so perfectly flawed in a way that made them jump
off the page and straight into my heart. Every character in The Square Root of Summer makes a stupid
decision, does something selfish, says something hurtful or retreats into themselves
when they shouldn’t and that’s life. The relationships were only stronger for
that.
The
Square Root of Summer is
a gorgeous debut filled love, grief, friendship, family and physics and I completely
loved it. If Harriet carries on like this, I’ll have to make her one of my
favourites…
Thanks to Macmillan for the
review copy.
Sophie
Oooh, I haven't really heard much about this, just vaguely aware of the title but it sounds amazing! Definitely keeping my eye out for this
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