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Summer Break (Glee #3)

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Fans are clamoring for more showmance, more mash-ups, more Cheerios...more Glee! Now, Gleeks everywhere can spend more time with uber-ambitious Rachel Berry, outrageous Kurt Hummel, and dreamy Finn Hudson with these completely original stories about everyone's favorite glee club.

Paperback, 224 pages

Published July 5th 2011 by Poppy

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Jan 01, 2013 01toriw rated it 2 of 5 stars

The protagonist in this story is Rachel Berry, a musically talented teenager with big dreams of becoming a Broadway star in her future. As the book begins, it is the last week of school and Rachel is highly anticipating summer break so she can be able to start her career of being a famous Broadway star. While she is at glee club rehersal, her instructor, Mr Shuester, has notified the class that there will be a summer youth camp for musical learning and all the glee club members are the instruct...more The protagonist in this story is Rachel Berry, a musically talented teenager with big dreams of becoming a Broadway star in her future. As the book begins, it is the last week of school and Rachel is highly anticipating summer break so she can be able to start her career of being a famous Broadway star. While she is at glee club rehersal, her instructor, Mr Shuester, has notified the class that there will be a summer youth camp for musical learning and all the glee club members are the instructors for it. This would get in the way for Rachel's goal in the summer to start working towards her dream. She turned down the opportunity to teach at the youth camp and headed home.
While in her bedroom, Rachel was already practicing dancing for her future profession. When she danced she got lost in the spinning and twirling and fell down and hit her head hard. When she woke up, she was no longer in her bedroom, but on a private jet that was her own. Her best friend from glee club, Kurt, was her designer for her clothes. She found out that she and Kurt were both high school dropouts and Rachel was a big time Broadway star just as she dreamed. She and Kurt both travel back to McKinley High School and visit their old glee friends, though their friends do not seem like the same people they left before. Everyone is different and not the same. She realizes that all of this happened because she didn't volunteer to teach at the youth camp. Rachel soon realizes she made a mistake and she finally wakes up in her room with a large lump on her head. It was all a dream and she realizes that being a star is not what she thought at all. She decides to go back to school and volunteers to be the leader of the youth camp.

I rated this book 2 stars because I personally didn't enjoy the slow moving parts of the book and I felt it didn't explain parts that well.
I would recomend this book to teenagers because the book is about high school life and I feel teenagers would relate to it better.(less)

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Nov 13, 2012 Stephanie A. rated it 3 of 5 stars

All I can figure is that the author got tired of criticisms about not being sufficiently in character or canon-based and just went, "Screw it, I'm going AU." Most of it is a fantasy sequence set a year in the future after Rachel hits her head. It was a little disappointing after the great grasp of character dynamics in the last book, but still entertaining to have Kurt running around as Big Star Rachel's personal assistant/life coach/only person who can stand her, patiently filling in the gaps o...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Laura Cushing rated it 1 of 5 stars

If Hell has a bookshelf, this book is sitting in a prominent place on it. I picked this 'book' up at our local library because I enjoy the Glee television show, and thought I might likewise enjoy the tie-in book. As I have read good tie-in books before (see the Monk series of novels by Lee Goldberg ), I was cautiously optimistic.

It started out okay enough- Summer Break was approaching and the Glee kids were getting ready to be counselors in a music camp for kids. Except of course, for Rachel, wh...more If Hell has a bookshelf, this book is sitting in a prominent place on it. I picked this 'book' up at our local library because I enjoy the Glee television show, and thought I might likewise enjoy the tie-in book. As I have read good tie-in books before (see the Monk series of novels by Lee Goldberg ), I was cautiously optimistic.

It started out okay enough- Summer Break was approaching and the Glee kids were getting ready to be counselors in a music camp for kids. Except of course, for Rachel, who had her own summer agenda. Now-- this isn't a bad premise. This could have been an enjoyable plot. Everyone teaches adorable little kids, Rachel eventually comes around and works with the others, yadda yadda is it's an episode of Glee.

For some godforsaken reason, 'Sophia Lowell' (the pen name of a YA author obviously too ashamed to put her real name on this garbage) decided that the best thing to do with that plot was trash it. Instead, Rachel hits her head on a bust of one of her idols and gets knocked unconscious.

While unconscious, she has an extended dream sequence about being a big star who quit Glee Club and high school to go to Broadway. She's returning to her old Alma Mata, only to find out that everything has gone haywire without her there. Even this grating cliched dream sequence would have been somewhat tolerable if it was a short intermission for the real plot. But no. That was the plot. The first plot we were introduced to? Only re-emerges in the last five pages, when Rachel says she's totally changed her mind and is going to work with the others.

We never actually see the summer camp, the cute little kids, or any other thing of interest (say, character development or a reason to care enough to read other books in the series).

Now granted, as an adult casual viewer of the show, I'm not the target audience. The target audience is likely a teenage Gleek (That's 'Glee fan') - but that's no reason to dumb it down for her. Give a teen a good read, something with characters and a plot that stay true to the show's dynamic.

I'd cut for spoilers but let's face it - if you have any taste whatsoever, you won't read this. If you see this book, don't pick up a copy. Don't purchase a copy. In fact, the only reason you should ever touch this book is to drop it into a nearby garbage can to save someone else the horror of having to read it.

If there was a -1 star option, I'd give it to this.
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Jul 17, 2011 Jesse Owen rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Summer has strolled around the corner and that for the Glee kids means no school, no slushies and a bliss filled period of time with which they can (within reason) do whatever they like. Yeah! Um, no – Mr. Schuster has had the bright idea of running a summer camp for the local schools – potentially throwing all their summer plans (or lack of them) out the window.

It sounds like a fabulous idea for a story but for me I didn’t really see enough of the summer camp – it’s there at the start and there...more Summer has strolled around the corner and that for the Glee kids means no school, no slushies and a bliss filled period of time with which they can (within reason) do whatever they like. Yeah! Um, no – Mr. Schuster has had the bright idea of running a summer camp for the local schools – potentially throwing all their summer plans (or lack of them) out the window.

It sounds like a fabulous idea for a story but for me I didn’t really see enough of the summer camp – it’s there at the start and there at the end but it’s nowhere to be found in the middle instead the story does something equally interesting (I’m not telling you what!) which makes it in it’s own Glee-ish way a thought provoking little story that examines the decisions people make and the effects it can have on other people’s lives.

This leads me to the star at the centre of this story – Rachel Berry (though Kurt comes a close second), even more so than the other books and the TV series and I don’t mean that she grabs the spotlight – we actually see most (but not all) of the story by following her character around (there’s a very good reason for this but I’m not going to tell you what it is ;) unlike in previous books which have followed all the characters around like the series).

A character that really stood out for me this time around was Brittany – now I’ve always liked her in the show (and infantley more so in the latest series) and in this book she’s there walking, talking and just as adorable as ever doing the Brittany things I love her for. And I can’t finish talking about characters without a shout out to Coach Sylvester who gets a bigger share of the action than in the previous books and her one liners are as classic as ever.

I did have one niggle though and this was to do with timings – I believe the story is supposed to take place after the series which has just finished yet – If I remember rightly New York Nationals was mentioned, but we see near the end Brittany in her Cheerios uniform when I thought she left them?

Either way I think this a great addition to the Glee Novels, once again taking one of my favourite TV shows and transferring it to the page whilst still keeping intact the characters, their personalities and everything that I love about the show. (less)

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Jan 13, 2012 Emily Rhoads rated it 1 of 5 stars

Wow. What a truly horrible piece of garbage. I hated the first two Glee books, which I made the mistake of purchasing hoping they would be good/get better, but this one really took the cake. Thank God I did not spend money on it (Got it at the library) but I really want the two days I spent reading it back. It is written like fan fiction - BAD fan fiction. "Brittany is stupid, Santana is a mean lesbian, Quinn is a goody-two-shoes" does NOT translate to the page at all. It says on the back that i...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Vendea Eclee rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Příjemné počteníčko stejně jako předchozí díly. Opět bych doporučila jen fanouškům Glee, protože je to jen taková třešnička na dortu pro fanoušky. Kniha se odehrává na konci druhé série a docela mě překvapilo, že se kniha drží seriálu. Proměna Rachel Berry ve Scary Berry byla zábavná, stejně jako Svatá Santana a ostatní proměny. Připomělo mi to trochu proměnu identit na konci třetí série. Pokud chcete knihu celou jen o Rachel Berry, tahle je pro vás jako dělaná.

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Feb 10, 2013 Yara Hatem rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013

Meeh..

I love glee don't get me wrong but getting this book for the price I paid for, so did not help.

I felt that the author was like a " bitchy " women who just went on and on and just wouldn't just SHUT UP! Like comon we are not stupid to the point that you need to keep on blabling on the same pointless point for 3 pages!!!

but to be fair I did laugh at points, but I think it was more cause of the fact that I rem.d these situations from early seasons.

I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone. It...more

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May 22, 2013 Grace added it

I was expecting this book to be boring and dull ( due to the fact it's a T.V. Show novel ) but, actually it wasn't
Was mainly about Rachel
Had VERY good character development!
Started to read it again awhile ago...
When I first started it, it was boring and hard to get into but, after putting it down for a couple of months, I came back to it and finished it in 2 days

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Sep 05, 2011 Allison rated it 3 of 5 stars

Like I said about the previous book, love the idea and POV's but I can't picture it in my mind as I'm reading because I think, this isn't how Lea Michele would act or the fact that I can't always remember what everyone looks like perfectly and I won't settle for anything else because my mind is set on the actual cast playing the roles of Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel.

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Aug 07, 2011 Emma rated it 5 of 5 stars

Even with more negitave comments on good reads and nook shop, I think think that this book was great! Sure, their were times when I wished Rachel would go back to her real life, but it was still fun to read. Mager Quinn fans would might like to no she is listed more in the end.

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Jun 24, 2012 Bethany rated it 1 of 5 stars

This book was a definite let down. I was sure it would actually be about the glee clubs summer instead very much like the show it was centred around Rachel. The worst part for me was the way Kurt is portrayed :(

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Jan 18, 2012 Abbie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, ya

Eh, it was mostly mediocre. Read it only because it was Glee. Left a lot of possible plot lines hanging. Would have liked to see something else developed. These are really going downhill.

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Jul 21, 2011 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's a glee book, I never think that they are so mired in truth. It's a good, hour or so read and the descriptions of slushies and Patti LuPone busts is enough to make a giggle.

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Jul 13, 2011 BCPL Youth Services Librarian added it

Shelves: music-and-bands, tv-and-movies

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Jul 29, 2011 Teresinha rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: česky, in-english, cooboo

UPDATE, více tady: http://mundo-da-teresinha.blogspot.co...

Další kniha Glee, drží si stejnou úroveň jako předešlé. Nejsem velký fanoušek seriálu, ale nebylo to špatné. Tahle má navíc kapku rafinovanější zápletku, i když ji rychle prokouknete, je to vlastně docela sranda a dobrý nápad :)

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Jul 17, 2011 Agent Smith rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: j-ya-fiction

One of the best Glee books so far. Rachel gets a glimpse of her life as a Broadway star & doesn't like the person she becomes.

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Feb 11, 2012 Clara rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: the gleeks

The third volume wasn't the best one. :( It was less funny and I didn't like the way the story was made. The two first ones are better.

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Dec 29, 2011 Pammy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Maybe 3.5 stars. I was kinda hoping the book would actually be about the glee club's summers, but instead the whole book was Rachel's dream.

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Jan 02, 2011 Mickey marked it as to-read

*Comes out on July 5, 2011*

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Dec 07, 2011 April added it

Wow did Rachel really have some wild dreams in this one....I really enjoyed it though....was nice for Kurt to have a bigger part in this one

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Aug 17, 2011 Kenzie added it

i love glee

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Jun 18, 2011 Miranda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Pretty Good!!!

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Aug 12, 2011 Shelley rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'm saying 5 stars anyway, haha. I'm a total Gleek and love these books, I've been really looking foward to this one coming out since Foreign Exchange :)

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Jan 13, 2012 Echo Lawrence rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen-fiction-or-chick-lit, no, reviewed, 21st-century

I felt like I was reading fanfiction or an Internet roleplay. Bad narration, a sort of okay plot but I thought the plot itself had no relation whatsoever to the title. I thought the book would tell us how the Glee members would spend their summer teaching kids and all that, but instead we read about how Rachel dreams that she's a celebrity? Tsk, misleading.

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Aug 02, 2011 Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars

I think this was my favorite of the Glee novels, as it featured an "alternate world" a year into the future after Rachel hits her head. I cracked up at all of Brittany's one-liners, and once again feel like the author matched everyone's personality perfectly.

I hope there are more published!

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Mar 28, 2012 Duckpondwithoutducks rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: novels-ya

I love the TV show, so I also liked the quirky characters and witty dialogue of this book! But, if you haven't seen the show or would not refer to yourself as a "gleek", then maybe this book is not for you.

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Feb 18, 2012 Emma rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: ultimate-faves

This book is so hilarious. I absolutely love it.

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May 22, 2013 Kariana Moreno rated it 5 of 5 stars

May 21, 2013 Katie Jane marked it as to-read

May 20, 2013 Weeee rated it 4 of 5 stars

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