‘Til Summer Comes Around by Susannah Balch
The debut book from Susannah Balch ‘Til Summer Comes Around
is the perfect mix of YA and mystery.
This series starter of the Ranger Brothers has a good amount of humor
and romance to boot.
Set in the Deep South, Hillsborough ,
Alabama
Georgie, a high school girl, lives next to a grave yard that
is owned by the Ranger family who happen to have hot twin boys who help
out. When the cemetery is vandalized and
the Ranger brothers get closer to Georgie, instead of staring at her like she
has the plague, she must choose between brothers.
My Thoughts:
I enjoyed this book.
It didn’t hurt that there are hot twin brothers, a hint of romance and mystery,
and laugh out loud funny to boot. It did
get a little wordy at times, and if I here moreover and furthermore one more
time I might scream, but all in all it was a good first release. I absolutely loved the southern setting being
from the dirty south myself; I love books that are set here. Mrs. Balch I would choose Jase for sure, so
if or when you write the sequel make his bad boy side shine; who doesn’t love a
bad boy?
Favorite Funny Quotes:
“…She want’ even exactly competent at the simple
human-to-human kind of resuscitation, bleeding, knocked out or unconscious
victim or not, much less one where she might be swapping saliva with something
that frequently licked the hair around their rear end or quite potentially ate
poo recently.”
“…she was going to holler out, ‘Fire ants! I’m allergic!’
and climb up him with a great big ole’ clinging for her life hug…and be done
with it.”
“…she was all over him like a starved tick in the
summertime.”
“Although, he was staring to wonder exactly himself what Ms.
Perkins’ tender, lovin’ care consisted of, and if it involved a weird looking
thermometer, a staggering amount of strategically placed band aids, and copious
amounts of Vaseline. Scratch that-decision
already made-he didn’t want to know.”
“But I think it’s more of, if your going to hand out
with him, you might as well just hand out with Michael Myers on Halloween.
Thanks for the kind words, Becca! I admit it: it is a little wordy. My hubby is agreement with you on that one. As for moreover and furthermore, well, that's just me...everyone knows that I use those in my everyday language. Just hang in there for the first few chapters that set the story up...and then it picks up the pace. And as for the thermometer, that's your thermometer! For those of you that don't know, Becca is a nurse and the thermometer I mention is hers! It's very obscene looking, no lie! ;)
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