Summer Constellations by Alisha Sevigny
Published by Kids Can Press on May 1st 2018
ISBN: 1525300431
Pages: 264
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As summer romance novels go Summer Constellations is somewhat above the middle.  Julia is a perfect heroine, she is fully invested in the family business and is supportive of both her mother and brother. The story-line connects all of the characters around one issue, selling (or purchasing) the campground owned by Julia’s family.  The book has barely started when Julia realizes that last year’s love interest is otherwise connected and a replacement seems to appear one dark night on the dock.   Generations of lost family members are united with the living while searching the sky for stars.

The progress of the new relationship feels unnatural and the interactions are somewhat strained.   Supporting characters are not fully developed but their existence is necessary to make the plot creditable.   In the end there is a little surprise but readers know something would save the campground.

Add to public library collections where censorship is not a problem and summer romances are in demand.

Submitted by Jan Hamilton, retired youth services librarian in Scarborough, ME.