If you are looking for a light-hearted summer love triangle, I have the book for you. The Summer I Turned Pretty is book one of the trilogy that goes by the same name. This book follows the summer that Isabel “Belly” Conklin turns 16, with many crushes, late-night swims, and trips to the boardwalk in the town of Cousins Beach. This series is written by Jenny Han, with the book vaguely inspired by her own experience of girlhood.

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. Like, I don’t really begin living until June, until I’m at that beach, in that house.” Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between June and August. Winters are just a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from real life at the beach house, away with the Fisher family, Susannah, and most importantly, away with Jeremiah and Conrad. During the summer of Belly’s 16th birthday, she had turned pretty, so she was now worthy of the boys’ attention. Belly has always had a crush on Conrad, the older of the two Fisher brothers. He is more moody and mysterious, while Jeremiah is always cracking a joke to make Belly laugh. This makes Belly fall for Jeremiah, with conflicting feelings of not wanting to mess up her friendship with him.

During this one summer, she is getting noticed more than she ever did. One night on the fourth of July at a bonfire, she begs the Fisher brothers to take her to where she meets Cam Cameron, another boy to add to the mix, but who will she choose? Conrad, whom she has had a crush on since she was ten years old? Jeremiah, who never fails to make her laugh? Or Cam, the new boy who always listens so intently to what she has to say, like no one else?