Emma Jensen’s Reviews > The Summer I Turned Pretty > Status Update

In this book, the point of view is first person. You can tell that this is first person because on page 11 where she says "I sat up and said, okay." "As soon as Conrad left, I closed my door and went over to the mirror . I took my hair out of my braids and brushed it." This shows that the story is 1st person because it is Belly (the main character) talking about what she is doing and the POV is focused on Belly.

The setting of the story is in the year of 2009. It takes place in the city of the fictional town, Cousins Beach in Wilmington, North Carolina where the summer house is located. One scene from the book in chapter 1, Belly says "We have been going to Susannah's beach house in Cousins Beach every summer ever since I was a baby, since before I was even born." This shows that Belly has been to Cousins Beach for a while.

This book is fiction and a genre of romance. I know that this book is about romance because in the book, Belly has a crush on Conrad because she explains how she feels about him from what I have read so far. I also think it is realistic fiction because in the book it makes sense and sounds like something that would happen in real life and it talks about real life scenarios. This shows that this book has many genres.

Every summer, Belly goes to a summer house to visit a friend of her mom's named Susannah. Susannah has 2 sons: Conrad and Jeremiah. The book is pretty interesting so far, even with some drama in it. In the chapter I recently read, they all had a dinner together and then after it explains that Belly's brother Steven, Jeremiah, and Conrad were going to the beach to set up a fire but they left Belly out.