The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy
Kisses only. Any sex is implied and fully off page.
Euphemistic. Softened or poetic language, little direct anatomy.
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Now an Original Series on Prime Video! From New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han comes the complete paperback collection of each media tie-in edition of The Summer I Turned Pretty books, featuring exclusive content from the hit streaming series! Belly has always lived for the summertime because it means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fischer boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. She has spent every summer with them at Cousins Beach for as long as she can remember. She has always been in love with Conrad and finally, one summer, it seems like he might have feelings for her, too. But it turns out, so does Jeremiah. As the summers go on, Belly has to choose between two brothers who love her as she comes to the realization that she will have to break one of their hearts. This paperback boxed set includes: The Summer I Turned Pretty It’s Not Summer Without You We’ll Always Have Summer
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We'll Always Have Summer
Continues Belly's choice between the brothers, same beach-summer ache, but this simplified-English edition is shorter and lighter on interiority.
It's Not Summer Without You
The middle chapter of the same story, heavier on grief and mourning Susannah than the first summer's flirtation.
Lola and the boy next door
Same clean YA love triangle with a boy she's known forever, but lighter and quirkier with no grief storyline.
Anna and the French Kiss
Another slow-burn YA triangle where longing stretches over months, though set at a Paris boarding school instead of a summer beach town.
Ugly Love, Maybe Someday, and Maybe Not
Keeps the grief-soaked angst and friends-to-lovers pull, but these are adult and far more explicit than Belly's chaste summers.
Selection Series 3-Book Collection
Keeps the torn-between-two-boys ache and chaste yearning, but trades beach nostalgia for palace competition and dystopian stakes.