Whitley Johnson’s dream summer of shopping, partying and tanning on the beach has just turned into a nightmare. Because Dad didn’t tell her he doesn’t live by the beach anymore, or that he’s no longer a bachelor. He’s picked up and moved to a tiny, lame town called Hamilton and gotten himself a fiance. A fiance whose son just happens to be what’s-his-name from last week’s drunken graduation party one night stand. Just freakin’ great.
As if the summer couldn’t get worse, Dad seems to forget Whitley’s even there. She doesn’t fit in with his perfect new country club family, and Whitley does what any kid lucky enough to go all summer unsupervised does: she parties. Hard.
So hard that she doesn’t even notice the good things right under her nose: a younger future step-sister who is just about the only person she’s ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn’t ‘do friends’) and a smoking hot, sweet guy who isn’t her step brother (yet) and who actually seems to care for her. It will take all three of them to convince her that they’re not phoneys, and to get Whitley to get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together.

My Thoughts:

I have only just realised that this is book 3 of 4 in the Hamilton High Series but I think you can read as a standalone like I have done. It was an easy read about Whitley who is a teenage girl who dreams of spending the summer being carefree alongside her dad but what she does not know is her dad has been hiding the fact he is engaged and living elsewhere. Whitley has a lot of catching up to do and also to meet her new family which involves a boy that she has slept with not so long ago. Awkward. This is not how she planned her summer around, but she will have to get used to it. It was an ok story, I can see teenagers liking it. It tackles a subject that some teens may be going through so hopefully it helps them realises that they are not alone. I don’t think I would be reading any of the other books in the series though.

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