'22: the summer seekers // sarah morgan

"it had taken decades for her to understand that loneliness wasnt a lack of people in your life, but a lack of people who knew and understood you." 

pub: 2021

pgs: 361

heard: april 26-30, 2022 

book: 14 in 2022

SYNOPSIS

THOUGHTS
uh. i think i saw this one on IG. idk. but i put the audio on hold, it came in so i dove in. 

i think im laggin on writing these because well, lazy but also, cus idk what to say. 

i mean, i highlighted the shit out of this book (theoretically because this was a library book) but it wasn't like anything moving for me. especially now that a month has passed by since I heard it.

i can understand why homegirl wasnt close to her daughter. i can imagine that its hard to bond when its not something you wanted and then its harder because life. but i think the meh for me lies in the fact that homegirl made it suuuuuuuch a big deal that she left so that she could give xx and xx a chance to (removed bc could be spoilery).

once you get to the end its like okay i get it. makes sense but you want TOO much credit for like doing the bare minimum. or not even that. 

its more so that it felt like, to me, that she wanted to be acknowledged up the butt, to her death, for what she did when she did what she did. well, i mean, you either put up with it or you walk away. especially when nothing else is tethering yall together (kinda hard to get detailed cus spoilers). 

anyway, and then the marriage. 

im not married so i can't comment but i guess, communicate.

and kids are shitheads sometimes. Idk. teens, ya know. 

and martha. 

that was cute i guess. 

idk. 

why can't we have leads who just go on their journey without finding life changing dick after they were hurt by a bad one.  and then homeboy and his life story! 

basically everyone in this book has a sad girl story so if that's not what you're looking for then maybe come back to it later. 

guys - nothing is wrong with this book. nothing.

I just didn't vibe with it. it had a lot of little nuggets and pearls but for me all together at the end: meh.

im okay having heard this but i know i would have been okay never having heard this one. 

SPOILERS

uhm so kathleen was best friends with her homegirl. 

kat starts dating this dude. 

turns out best friend also likes him. 

the best friend and boyfriend sleep together and end up getting pregnant. Kat leaves to give them a chance to either make it or flop on their own without her being in the picture. (in the long run, they do stay together and live a good life til he passes away). 

kat decides to roadtrip route 66 (after her home invasion life changing awakening) and hires martha to drive her even though martha is afraid of driving (of course martha doesn't let that be known til they're in the US. which makes no sense bc wouldn't u wanna like test drive the driver? Anyway....)

marthas beef is that her parents (her mom for sure)  are total turds, her ex mans is a total turd and she cant get a good job to save her life. 

she goes with kat and along the road they pick up Josh? idk. his name starts with a J. his beef is that he's hiking 66 in honor of his brother who committed suicide i believe. he was also kind of a jerk boss who needed to take time off.

of course the girls pick him up and of course him and martha end up well, hooking up but im also going to assume dating. idk bc she is from the UK but hes from US. idk. 

the daughter. Leah? Liza! her and her husband are in a dry spell. shes become someone who does everything for everyone without everyone thinking about how such things get done. 

she never talks to her husband so she goes to stay at her moms while shes on the road trip with martha. because she took a cosmo test that said her relationship is doomed and so she needs time to process but also give everyone the chance to see that she's the HBIC but they need to help out. 

in the end her and her husband end up okay and her kids learn to stop being such twats. she also makes out with that nice rocker dude that lives on or near Kats property. 

in the end, the road trip ends up with Kat meeting her ex best friend in her home in santa monica with each of their perspective daughters (by this point liza and kat are closer and liza flew down to be there with her mother at this moment.) and then its up to them to play catch up. 

as always, there's more but thats all i got.

thanks for reading!