Delilah Hannaford is falling apart. Her grades have crashed and burned, she’s dating this random guy (and by “dating,” I mean hooking up with in the middle of the night) and she barely talks to her friends anymore. You can probably trace it to the fact that her mom’s working ALL THE TIME and so their once-close relationship has completely disintegrated, and her dad died before she was born. Then her grandmother dies and she and her mom move to Vermont for the summer to take care of the estate.

Spending time with her mom and with her aunt starts to turn things around. Except there are a lot of family secrets, and secrets have a way of getting found out…

I really enjoyed this book. I haven’t read her first book (Twenty Boy Summer) but I definitely want to now. I think part of it is that I love Delilah (who, God love her, is a wreck but a lovable one) and the guy in this, Patrick, is so amazing and perfect. (He does NOT have a sister.)

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. Even though I read it in mid-November–and during a cold snap–it made my apartment feel like summer. This is not the book’s only selling point, either. So read this, meet Delilah and fall in love with Patrick. Perfect summer read (even in November).