Seventeenth Summer By Maureen Daly

The title Seventeenth Summer is certainly appropriate for the story that the author, Maureen Daly, has crafted. When readers, especially those who are reaching their adolescent years, hear and read the number seventeen next to the word summer, they would immediately assume that the novel would revolve around an adorable or cringe-worthy love story between two love-struck teens, and their guess would not be too far off from what the story is about. In addition, readers can infer that the main character of the story is seventeen years old, and his or her romantic fling will occur or take place in summer. Personally, when I first read the title and saw the cover of the novel, I perceived it as an ordinary romantic story of two individuals who