Book Review #3: Twisted Summer

I am desperate for summer. Here in Pennsylvania, there has been snow nearly every week since Christmas, and it always falls from Friday night until Sunday morning. It's like I am supposed to hibernate.

Thinking of summer and all the warm happiness it brings reminded me of my first ever favorite book. I read Twisted Summer by Willo Davis Roberts the summer before entering middle school. It is, if you have not already guessed, a YA (Young Adult) novel, but it is a very interesting one.

With vivid descriptions and interesting twists (do you like that pun?), Willo David Roberts tells the story of three-generations of family as they spend summer vacation in the mountains. Our heroine, CiCi, goes through the transition from childhood to adulthood throughout this summer, and we also learn of a murder that needs to be solved.

I loved this book because it was my first real introduction to darker, more complicated plots. Everything I had read up to that point was from an elementary school textbook, rhymed, and had cartoons as companions. Reading a novel made me feel like I was growing up, and made me feel like I was CiCi as I went through the story.

I suggest picking this book up whenever you need a lazy summer read and want to bring out the curious kid that was once inside you. I'm fresh out of hammocks though, so you'll have to provide your own.