In Taiwan her parents both hope she’ll garner a love for her culture, and make lasting connections. Unfortunately for her, her parents have other plans and are sending her to Taiwan for the summer. However, she gets an acceptance letter from Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) for dance, close to summer (in summer), and wants to go. Plot Overview:Įver Wong has only been accepted to Northwestern’s medical program, no other school. Somehow I want her (my best friend) to read this book, but I doubt she ever will. This book hit and it hit me hard because every single thing Ever did, I could imagine my best friend doing if she were in the situation. The inability to find a group to fully identify with was 100% what drew us together and is what drew me to love Ever. She’s Chinese American (and honestly the whole wants to dance/be a choreographer, parents want her to be a doctor, is exactly like what happened for my best friend) and I’m mixed race. What a great book! Not going to lie, the dichotomy between being American and being Chinese and the thin line between both was the thing that got my best friend and I closer. Its another contemporary, which is interesting because that seems to be what I have dealt a lot with in this year already. All about hope, yes, but still very mental books. Thus far, this month, they’ve all been very mental books. I don’t know how this book is going to hit me.

When these students’ lives collide, it’s guaranteed to be a summer Ever will never forget.Ĭontemporary – Drama | YA – M |Drinking (Legal for the country they are in), Spreading of Nudes, Manipulative Relationships | Self Worth/Identity, Self Love, Breaking Free Rick Woo is the Yale-bound child prodigy bane of Ever’s existence whose perfection hides a secret.īoy-crazy, fashion-obsessed Sophie Ha turns out to have more to her than meets the eye.Īnd under sexy Xavier Yeh’s shell is buried a shameful truth he’ll never admit. In its place, she finds Loveboat: a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound, adults turn a blind eye, snake-blood sake flows abundantly, and the nightlife runs nonstop.īut not every student is quite what they seem:Įver is working toward becoming a doctor but nurses a secret passion for dance.

Gone is Chien Tan, the strict educational program in Taiwan that Ever was expecting. ”Īnd just like that, Ever Wong’s summer takes an unexpected turn. “Our cousins have done this program,” Sophie whispers.

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