Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty has ended its three-season run on Prime Video, however there may be nonetheless a film on the way in which and Han’s personal novels if followers need extra of the characters. The collection and the e-book trilogy comply with a younger girl named Stomach (Lola Tung) on her journey via grief, romance, and rising up.
The tales are initially constructed on Stomach’s summer time experiences with a pair of brothers, however the story expands to comply with her different friendships, her experiences with love, and the way she grows up due to them. For followers of The Summer time I Turned Fairly, these novels will fill the void the streaming collection and the novels depart behind.
To All The Boys I’ve Liked Earlier than Trilogy By Jenny Han
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before starts another trilogy by author Jenny Han. If followers of The Summer time I Turned Fairly need extra romantic drama tinged with nostalgia, her different trilogy is an efficient decide.
The novels comply with Lara Jean, a highschool scholar who pens letters to her crushes when her emotions turn into an excessive amount of to maintain bottled up. When her little sister decides to mail the letters Lara Jean has stored hidden, her complete world adjustments.
To All The Boys has extra comedic components to it, however it’s nonetheless a profound story about how past love may also be a coming of age expertise for somebody. If followers benefit from the trilogy, they’ll additionally catch the film variations on Netflix.
Netflix even has a spinoff series about Lara Jean’s little sister, XO, Kitty, which follows her adventures in romance and rising up in South Korea. The rising universe has loads to supply followers of the Prime Video collection.
Summer time Ladies By Jennifer Dugan
If the concept of a summer time romance altering all the things is what most appeals to followers of The Summer time I Turned Fairly, then Summer time Ladies is an efficient follow-up e-book.
In Summer time Ladies, Cass lives in a seaside city that’s flooded with rich vacationers each summer time. Her rule is that she stays away from what she calls the “summer time ladies,” daughters of the rich who’re used to getting what they need and depart after being there for just a few months.
Cass, nevertheless, is tasked with maintaining a tally of a kind of ladies – Birdie. Cass’ father works for a rich actual property developer whose daughter (Birdie) is being punished for crashing her boyfriend’s automotive by having to spend the summer time together with her father.
Cass will get Birdie a job, and the extra time they spend collectively, the extra drawn to 1 one other they’re. The potential of a deeper connection to Birdie surprises Cass, and it’s not not like Stomach being drawn to each Jeremiah and Conrad through the years.
Chloe And The Kaishao Boys By Mae Coyiuto
A part of the intrigue in The Summer time I Turned Fairly is that Stomach’s love life is sophisticated. She develops emotions for 2 of her buddies who occur to be brothers, they usually additionally each develop emotions for her. The relationships between all of them are altered in consequence.
If these messy relationships are the draw for followers of Han’s collection, then Chloe and the Kaishao Boys is a good subsequent learn.
The titular Chloe is a Chinese language-Filipina teen dwelling in Manila. She is about to go away for college, planning on attending in California, however her father needs her to remain near dwelling. Her household plans a standard 18th birthday, and her father units her up with one kaishao (or blind date), after which one other, to seek out an escort.
Whereas Chloe finds many of the state of affairs awkward, she does begin to fall for one among her dates, placing her in a troublesome place as she faces what alternative she needs to make for her personal future. Chloe’s story won’t happen over years, however she is confronted with the long run and her love life similar to Stomach is.
When Javi Dumped Mari By Mia Sosa
One good friend falling for an additional is a reasonably widespread approach to kick off the plot of a rom-com whether or not it’s in a Younger Grownup novel or a tv collection. When Javi Dumped Mari takes a friendship from school and fast-forwards ten years into their lives.
Javi and Mari are finest buddies who promise each other to vet any romantic curiosity in one another’s lives. They make the promise once they’re graduating from school, and ten years later, it comes again to chew Javi when Mari finally ends up engaged to somebody he’s by no means even had an opportunity to fulfill.
Javi has been nursing emotions for Mari for the final decade, and he doesn’t need to see her marry another person. He decides to spend the six weeks earlier than her marriage ceremony attempting to interrupt them up.
This novel is unquestionably for these The Summer time I Turned Fairly followers who need to see the story play out past a highschool or school setting. It’s for many who might need grown up alongside Stomach and are able to learn romance within the New Grownup class as a substitute.
Summer time On The Bluffs By Sunny Hostin
Summer time is the proper season for love and household drama, as The Summer time I Turned Fairly has demonstrated so effectively. It’s additionally demonstrated in Summer time on the Bluffs by The View co-host Sunny Hostin.
The 2021 novel is about in Oak Bluffs, an unique group in The Hamptons that’s not solely made up of outdated cash, however is a traditionally Black group the place free Black males within the Northern US started shopping for up property within the 1800s.
One of many households to personal property there may be that of Amelia Vaux Tanner. She and her husband constructed the home a long time earlier than the occasions of the novel, and she or he hosted her goddaughters there each summer time. As adults, the three goddaughters arrive to spend time with “Ama” as she reveals she plans on giving one among them the home.
As Ama plans on transferring to France now that she is in her 70s, every of the ladies needs to turn into the brand new proprietor of the home. Additionally they every have secrets and techniques they’re hiding from Ama and each other.
Whereas that is undoubtedly a extra mature story than The Summer time I Turned Fairly, it nonetheless has comparable features to the story set primarily in the summertime and the bonds between the ladies are a spotlight of the story. The Summer time I Turned Fairly additionally focuses on feminine friendships, although they’ll get misplaced within the romance of all of it.
Whereas We’re Younger By Okay.L. Walther
The connection dynamics in the midst of The Summer time I Turned Fairly have loads in widespread with Whereas We’re Younger. Walther’s novel sees a trio of buddies attempting to salvage their relationships with each other regardless of the issues.
Grace, Isa, and Everett expertise the “Freshman Yr Fracture” after Isa and Everett date and break up, however Grace nurses a crush on Everett. Isa begins spending extra time with Grace’s brother after, and the three buddies discover their friendship in jeopardy.
Grace is the one who decides to set issues proper as they head towards their commencement, giving them their very own Senior Skip Day that entails hitting a number of Philadelphia landmarks, crashing a marriage, and reconnecting with each other.
Whereas We’re Younger takes all the connection drama of three years in The Summer time I Turned Fairly and places all of it into one e-book as a substitute of a trilogy.
Nate Plus One By Kavin Van Whye
Described as a “enjoyable” and “feel-good” story by the writer Penguin Books, it won’t seem to be Nate Plus One has a lot in widespread with The Summer time I Turned Fairly past that, nevertheless it does.
The novel sees childhood buddies Nate and Jai heading to South Africa for the marriage of Nate’s cousin. Jai agrees to be his good friend’s plus one to the vacation spot marriage ceremony after Nate subs in for the lead singer of Jai’s band, who abandons the band proper earlier than a vital contest.
The 2 are simply doing each other a favor, besides that Nate has had a crush on Jai for a very long time. Unrequited emotions can complicate friendships, however really addressing these emotions can result in actual progress, as Stomach is aware of in The Summer time I Turned Fairly.
Each boys study themselves throughout their journey the identical means Stomach finds herself throughout her relationships.
Fireworks By Alice Lin
Fireworks has an identical vibe for its central relationship to Stomach and Jeremiah, however when the attraction between them first started, not when their relationship soured.
Alice Lin’s novel focuses on a pair of buddies who reunite after a serious life occasion – one among them moved to South Korea to turn into a Okay-pop star. Lulu is a younger girl with plans earlier than she heads off to varsity within the fall. A lot to her shock, her former neighbor Kite returns to city and upends all of them.
Whereas the romantic storyline takes place in the summertime, it additionally has the nostalgia of previous friendships like The Summer time I Turned Fairly. Extra than simply interesting to followers of Han’s novels, this one can even be of curiosity to anybody who’s on this planet of Okay-pop or Okay-dramas as effectively.
Alongside For The Experience By Sarah Dessen
Followers of The Summer time I Turned Fairly might doubtless discover loads to like in nearly any of Sarah Dessen’s novels. The YA author typically units her tales in the identical beachside city, so the vibes of her tales usually will match for Jenny Han followers.
Vibes, nevertheless, usually are not sufficient to suggest a novel. Alongside For The Experience sees Auden stay together with her father and new stepmother for the summer time. Whereas Auden has by no means fairly slot in with children her personal age since she has been raised round grownup teachers, she finds herself whereas working at a boutique and assembly a boy.
Auden won’t have the years-long friendships that Stomach has, however her bonding together with her new buddies and having the ability to open herself as much as them is much like Stomach’s personal progress. Auden’s wrestle to inform her mother and father how she actually feels can be paying homage to Stomach’s struggles together with her personal mom.
Additionally, very like The Summer time I Turned Fairly, Along For The Ride has been adapted for the screen. The film adaptation may be discovered on Netflix.
Each Summer time After By Carley Fortune
If any novel is an efficient learn for followers of The Summer time I Turned Fairly, it’s Each Summer time After by Carley Fortune. Swap the seaside for a lake, and the emotional pulls of the tales are very comparable.
Each Summer time After sees Persephone “Percy” Fraser spend six summers together with her neighbors on the banks of a Canadian Lake. her neighbors are Charlie and Sam Florek, and Sam and Percy finally go from buddies to extra earlier than their relationship falls aside.
Percy solely returns to the lakeside city after Sam’s mom passes away. When the 2 cross paths once more, they should confront the errors they made previously and the connection they nonetheless share.
Ever Summer time After is as if The Summer time I Turned Fairly barely aged up its characters to provide the reader extra mature relationships, so it’s a good way for readers to transition from YA novels.
The novel additionally has a companion e-book known as One Golden Summer time, which locations Sam’s brother Charlie on the heart of one other story.
The Summer time I Turned Fairly captured lightning in a bottle each on the web page and the display, and these books undoubtedly have the identical spark.
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2022 – 2025-00-00
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Prime Video
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Erica Dunton, Jesse Peretz, Jeff Chan
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Lola Tung
Isabel ‘Stomach’ Conklin
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Christopher Briney
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