Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins

Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins was something I enjoyed, but to a point. One of my biggest problems with the book was that it really was too short. The author should've elaborated a bit more at parts, like made Jazz write more letters to Steve overseas or write more about the whole day-to-day stuff itself. The book skipped from the first day in India to the next week so fast that I didn't even understand what had happened and had to go back and read it again once or twice. Overall though, the book was okay. It is about sixteen-year-old Jasmine Gardner and how her mother is an adopted Indian while her father is an American. When the whole family goes to India for the summer, Jazz finds out that her looking so much like her father and her brother looking more like her mother is a big problem. Nobody else had ever seen a mixed family before and everybody begins to mix up her mother and brother for her servants. Another thing is that she is in love with her best friend, Steve, and while she keeps trying to write a good letter to him, they all end up horrible. The main question in this story is, will Jazz be able to survive one summer in India?

~~MP

Rating: 7/10