Summary from
Goodreads:
Loving Chris Henderson would be wrong. Diabolically disastrous. I mean,
what is there about him to love? He’s moody, bossy, brooding, a control freak,
and that’s on a good day … but there was one achingly obvious fact that haunted
my every thought, every minute of every day …
He sure could kiss.
As the countdown to the new millennium begins, there is one thing everyone
agrees on: no one wants to be in Onslow for New Year’s Eve.
So that can only mean one thing: road trip!
No longer the mousey, invisible, shy girl from years ago, Tammy Maskala is
finally making up for all those lost summers. A new year with new friends,
which astoundingly includes the bossy boy behind the bar, Chris Henderson.
She likes her new friends (at least most of them), so why does she secretly
feel so out of place?
After chickening out on the trip, a last-minute change of heart sees Tammy
racing to the Onslow Hotel, fearing she’s missed her chance for a ride. The
last thing she expected to meet was a less-than-happy Onslow Boy leaning
against his black panel van.
Now the countdown begins to reach the others at Point Shank before the party is
over and the new year has begun. Alone in a car with only the infuriating Chris
Henderson, Tammy can’t help but feel this is a disastrous start to what could
have been a great adventure. But when the awkward road trip takes an unexpected
turn, Tammy soon discovers that the way her traitorous heart feels about Chris
is the biggest disaster of all.
Fogged up windows, moonlight swimming, bad karaoke and unearthed secrets; after
this one summer nothing will ever be the same again.
Review:
I fell in love with the Onslow boys immediately in The Boys of Summer, and I can't seem to keep my hands off every time C.J. Duggan releases another book in this series. My favorite character? CHRIS HENDERSON! He's always been so elusive and mysterious with his serious manner and mother-hen-like approach to all the others in the group. So when I realized that the next book in the series was going to center around Chris, I about flipped my lid.
As usual, That One Summer is told through the eyes of the female character; in this case Tammy Maskala. Just like Chris, she's been somewhat of a mystery character within the series. So I was pretty excited to delve into her character as well. She's pretty mousy, and insecure and when you put Tammy and Chris in a van alone on a road trip... well, I wasn't sure what to expect.
These two characters were so perfect together! Duggan did a wonderful job bringing both of them to life and making them and their interactions realistic. In fact, she excels at this in all her books. Through a multitude of misunderstandings, insecurities, and mishaps the relationship between these two overly serious, yet still fun-loving characters grows beautifully.
If you've read the other books in this serious, you will fall in love with this Onslow boy just as much as the rest. Even more so! If you haven't read The Boys of Summer and An Endless Summer (Books 1 & 2), I highly recommend them. These books are amazing coming-of-age stories filled with humor, love and growth. You'll watch both the characters and their relationships develop before your eyes and you fall more and more in love with the Onslow boys and the girls who love them with every turn of the page.
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About the Author
C.J Duggan is a Number One
Best Selling Australian Author who lives with her husband in a rural border
town of New South Wales, Australia. When she isn’t writing books about swoony
boys and 90’s pop culture you will find her renovating her hundred-year-old
Victorian homestead or annoying her local travel agent for a quote to
escape the chaos.
The Boys of Summer is Book One in
her highly successful Mature Young Adult Romance Series.
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