The Summer of Everything

Julian Winter's never fails to make a YA book seem soooooo much deeper and more meaningful than your typical young adult contemporary romance. Like hell, I didn't actually want to cry during this one ("The Summer Of Everything"), but I did. 

["Comic book geek Wesley Hudson excels at two things: slacking off at his job and pining after his best friend, Nico. Advice from his friends, ‘90s alt-rock songs, and online dating articles aren't helping much with his secret crush. And his dream job at Once Upon a Page, the local used bookstore, is threatened when a coffeeshop franchise wants to buy the property. To top it off, his annoying brother needs wedding planning advice. When all three problems converge, Wes comes face-to-face with the one thing he’s been avoiding—adulthood.

Now, confronted with reality, can Wes balance saving the bookstore and his strained sibling relationship? Can he win the heart of his crush, too?"]

I could be wrong, but all of Julian's books are about the best-friend-turns-more trope and I'm All For It over here. Like hell.

And the Found Family trope.

And the What Am I Doing With My Life Help trope.

Small Spoiler Slash Mini Rant: I'm glad we've realized (that teens--at least fictional ones--are realizing) that adults don't know what the hell they're doing either. It's all a game of fucking chance. Taking it all day by day, decision by decision, messing up a whole hell of a lot along the way. The only difference is (in most cases), adults have learned to look like they know what they're doing. Fake it till you make it y'all.

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