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Oh my goodness! I had a roller-coaster of emotions with this book. At first, I thought I didn't like it because there was so much negativity, and I wanted to shake some sense into the MC. But then I found myself yelling, laughing, and especially crying as the book came together at the end. Oh, the end! I ugly cried in the car as I drove home from work. 5⭐️

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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

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I got about halfway through this book several months ago, until Libby retrieved it in the middle of an intense IRL hurricane season that made me uneasy to pick it up again.

Now I‘ve picked it back up for reading the Americas, but I‘m having a hard time getting back into it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

In any event, it fulfills #temptingtitles prompts for both today and tomorrow! #withaweatherword #withaseason

a young Canadian girl, visits her family in Jamaica for the first time and has to learn about her family, the culture, classism, colorism, sexual assault and trauma too, with the looming threat of a hurricane as well. this book was a lot. still deciding on my final feelings about it.

This book is so incredibly beautiful & heart-wrenching at the same time. I am learning alot about Jamaica, Jamaican culture, self-love, self-acceptance and resilience! Pass me another Kleenex box please! 😭💔 #jamaica #ashabromfield #hurricanesummer #passmethekleenexbox #emotionallydestroyed

A good coming of age story. It focuses on colorism, but it touches on sexual abuse/assault. The story is about a Jamaican youth trying to adapt to life in Canada. Acceptance and culture shock is embedded in the story.

Things I loved: the setting is gorgeous Jamaica, not the touristy part, the ‘country‘ part, and Bromfield‘s descriptions of it are lush & vivid. It‘s an ownvoices book at least partially rooted in the author‘s own experience. MC Tilla definitely comes of age & finds her strength.

Things I didn‘t like: almost every other character is horrible & abusive, it‘s overly dramatic, over written, & a bit too YAish—so it‘s probably a me thing.😬

⭐️⭐️1/2

Pick, with reservations.

It‘s hard to describe my feelings for this book. So many awful people in it, and I really wasn‘t prepared for the seriousness of a few things. I don‘t know a lot about Jamaica, but very little in this book painted the country, or it‘s people, in a positive light.

Tilla finding her strength in character was the best part of the book.

I‘m reading these two books, which are both good, however they are both SERIOUS and reading two serious books at the same time is definitely getting to me. I didn‘t realize quite how deep Hurricane Summer would go or I would have put it off. Will definitely be reading my normal fluffy feel good books next!

This book had me in tears. You have to read it!!!!

This was not an easy book to review. The main character suffers a lot of abuse and cruelty during a summer long trip to her parent‘s homeland. But I appreciated what I learned about the patois of Jamaica (the book includes a word bank) and the difference between city and country living. By the end of this tumultuous summer Tilla learns a lot about herself, family, finding inner strength and the true definition of home 3.5 stars rounded up to 4

Friday‘s wrap up for #AnyWayYouReadathon. Squeezed in finishing Goldilocks and The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires. Started listening to Hurricane summer and reading Royal Line. @Eggbeater @midnightbookgirl

This Summer Tilla and her younger sister decide to visit dad's family in Jamaica. It will be a summer she will never forget. This is definitely a book I will always remember. There is some hard topics that are dealt in this book. Topics such as physical and mental abuse. Privileged, cheating, lying and even more death. I loved reading Tilla's thoughts and I really felt at times crying with her. Asha Bromfield writing is so beautiful. A+

Do I ever want to go back to Jamaica after reading this book! The authors descriptive writing style makes me long for a trip in the worst way! This book wasn‘t quite a 4, but it was closer to a 4 than a 3, so I rounded up. It was a YA novel, which isn‘t my favorite genre. The acknowledgment section gave me a greater appreciation for the story, when I realized it was based on true events. I appreciate the ARC from Goodreads.

This YA captures the selfishness, anguish, and rage of being a teen. Great setting and story of family and belonging. The Patois dictionary at the beginning intimidated me (I don‘t often enjoy dialogue heavy writing with dialect) but the use of Patois in the writing was pretty seamless. #ARC #Netgalley