Never Vacation with Your Ex

By Austin Siegemund-Broka and Emily Wibberley

Book Overview

The Summer I Turned Pretty meets People We Meet on Vacation in a YA second chance romance where the rules for getting over an ex turn out to be more complicated than they seem.

Seventeen-year-old volleyball star Kaylee Jordan lives a life of player rankings, constant training, and a carefully curated social media full of followers watching to see if she'll go pro out of high school like her famous mom. Her one refuge, and the thing she looks forward to every summer? The vacation her family spends in Malibu with the Freeman-Yus. This year, there's only one problem: Kaylee and their son, Dean, dated for the past three months, and Kaylee just unceremoniously dumped him. Hoping to spare them the worst summer ever, Kaylee comes to Dean with her unconventional solution: she's going to walk him through her rules for getting over an ex. When Dean grudgingly cooperates, Kaylee's got her work cut out for her. But helping Dean follow her own rules starts becoming difficult when the pressures of Kaylee's family legacy and perfect life start to feel less like a plan and more like a prison...and amid warm California nights and stolen laughs, Kaylee feels herself falling for Dean for the same reasons and some new ones. With their trip coming to an end, Kaylee has to make the complicated choice between doing what's expected and taking a (second) chance on love.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593326903
• ISBN13: 9780593326909
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Cute but not Swoon worthy

I think the issue most people have with Kaylee being unlikable is that she is trying so hard to keep the perfect face in all facets of her life (mostly being the best in volleyball), meaning that her heart has to remain out of bounds at all times but still be carefree for the cameras and internet trolls who have nothing better to do . That being said, I got very frustrated at her and her decisions. Dean was good though also had his own issues. Their parents acted like teenagers (I know my parents would not talk that way about my relationships) and the people I liked best ended up being Dean's sisters, Jessie and Lucy, who were real but not totally annoying. It was fun to read about mermaid day and game night and Mamma Mia forever! I read till the end mostly because (and I knew it was coming) I wanted to see how Dean and Kaylee fixed the mess they were in with their feelings and get back together. I did like how it took place mostly at the beach and now I want to go to the beach too!