Beach Blondes starts out with Summer Smith walking home from her high school, Bloomington High, in the freezing cold Minnesota snow, icy winds stinging her face. When she got home, she got the surprise of her life; her mom asked if she wanted to go spend the summer in the FL Keys and stay with her Aunt Mallory and cousin Diana. Flash forward to the first week of Summer; Summer Smith is on the plane off to The Keys for a few months. While on the plane, the lady next to her says she's palm reader, and she 'reads' Summer's palm and says Summer will meet three guys. One will be dangerous, one will be mysterious, and one will be the right one. Brushing it off, Summer arrives in The Keys and is waiting in the airport for Mallory and Diana, when she sees the cute guy from the plane who sat across from her, Seth. She starts chatting with him when he says he needs to take a passport picture in the airport photo booth. He gives the extra shots to her, and as shes entering and he's exiting, he kisses Summer, which makes her awestruck and surprised. Bam, that was her first kiss. By the end of her first day, she learns that her famous author aunt was leaving that afternoon for a summer book tour, and that she'd be stuck alone for a few weeks with Diana, who doesn't particularly like Summer. Diana slyly sticks Summer into the old mildewy stilt house to stay in, while she keeps her mother's mansion to herself.
The next morning summer wakes up to a stran sound in the stilt house, which turns out to be a guy, who is around her age and has no family and lives off of the land; definitely the mysterious one. Diver is like Summer in the sense that he has that platinum blonde hair and wouldn't hurt a fly. Summer heads to find a job that day, and she meets a new friend there; Marquez. Marquez invites her to a party at the Merrick Estate that night, which is the governor of New Hampshire's house. Summer gets asked to dance by Adam Merrick, the senator's son, when he ends up becoming her boyfriend. Seth is hired by Mallory to fix up the mildewy stilt house, so Summer begins to see him more. Finally, the truth about Adam Merrick's family gets unlocked- Diana used to date Adam, but she broke up with him because Ross Merrick, Adam's brother, tried to rape her. Summer got the police involved and took care of that, and broke up with Adam, of course. Because she was seeing Seth so much, she decides to give him a chance as a friend, and that soon leads to him being her boyfriend. So, Adam turns out to be the dangerous one, Diver is the mysterious one, and Seth… Well, Seth is the right one. The last bit of the summer chronicals through summer working, hanging out with Marquez, and just loving life. Heading back to Bloomington in the end of it all definitely is hard for Summer, but she knows she'll come back soon.
Summer is a platinum blonde girl with slightly bronzed skin from being in the Keys, and she is 16 years old. Summer is as sweet as you can be, without even trying. Summer heads to the Keys with a hopeful outlook on the summer, because that's just her personality. Summer is polite to everyone, but she still knows how to stand her ground and have fun. The anaylsis of Summer being a sweet girl can be supported by this quote from the book: "Diana saw her cousin walking towards their car, and she instantly remembered, and was bothered, by Summer's sweet summertime-like personality." This quote from Beach Blondes shows Summer's pure sweetness. Summer interacts with others nicely, but sometimes lacks how she really feels or what she really thinks. A quote to support this analysis of Summer sometimes lacking her thoughts is this: "I wanted to ask Diana why I couldn't just stay in the house, but she seemed pretty set on not having me around." Summer is often caught in a daydream, like this one from the first page of the book: "Summer, come in my car, i'll give you a ride home. That way you don't have to walk in this cold." If only that was me he was talking to. Really, he was talking to Haylee Williams, cheer captain."' The character analysis described explains the main character of Beach Blondes, Summer Smith.
A major theme in Beach Blondes is crushes. Crushes, from Seth to Adam, to crushes with other characters. Summer knew Seth was going to be a crush of hers from the moment she saw him in the row across from her. A quote to support this theme is this: "When I looked around, I saw a Jake Gyllenhal looking guy, about my age, sit down across from me. I looked down immediately, afraid he'd notice I was staring." This quote from Summer supports the theme of her developing crush on Seth. Summer also, within her first few days there, devolopes a crush on her soon-to-be boyfriend, Adam. A quote to support her starting crush on Adam is this one: "I was dancing with Marquez, when I saw him. "That's Adam Merrick." Marquez whispered." That quote from Summer supports the theme of crushes in Beach Blondes. The theme of crushes described is the main theme in the book Beach Blondes.
I would definitely recommend the book Beach Blondes to anyone looking for a great summer read. Beach Blondes is the type of book you just cant put down. Summer's whole story fully lurs you in, and this book is just very well written. I think any type of person would love this book, because its the type of life story that draws any girl in. I also think that even though its unlikely for that to happen to someone, I think it's nice to just escape reality in a fun summer read like Beach Blondes.
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