Summer sisters

A true emotional roller coaster about friendship and what people think is friendship until they take a hard look inside themselves.

A spontaneous friendship: Caitlin, the dazzling heiress who eccentrically runs around The Island barefoot and Vix, the poor girl from the opposite side of the tracks who is trying to forge her own path.

Blume writes children so very well. Caity and Vix's summer adventures on The Island felt so real, especially when they did terribly stupid things. Kids have to be free to make mistakes so they can learn from them.

Puberty took the form of The Power, and it made me smile every time. Womxn do have a power all their own. Caity and Vix's summers on The Island were so sweet and adorable, a coming-of-age tale.

Vix's courage and tenacity to say no to Caity's wanderlust is admirable, especially while she's constantly being eclipsed by Caity. Vix gives Caity so much of herself, but Caity just doesn't value their friendship the same way.

I almost out this book down half a dozen times due to the choppy POV shifts from peripheral characters cluttering the main character arcs and pacing, but I'm glad I stuck with it because I definitely didn't see the end coming.