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There are two sides to every summer.
When seventeen-year-old Rory McShane steps off the train in East Hampton, it's as if she's entered another universe, one populated by impossibly beautiful people wearing pressed khakis and driving expensive cars. She's signed on to be a summer errand girl for the Rules -- a wealthy family with an enormous beachfront mansion. Upon arrival, she's warned by other staff members to avoid socializing with the family, but Rory soon learns that may be easier said than done.
Stifled by her friends and her family's country club scene, seventeen-year-old Isabel Rule, the youngest of the family, embarks on a breathless romance with a guy whom her parents would never approve of. It's the summer for taking chances, and Isabel is bringing Rory along for the ride.
But will Rory's own summer romance jeopardize her friendship with Isabel? And, after long-hidden family secrets surface, will the Rules' picture-perfect world ever be the same?
- Sales Rank: #381434 in Books
- Brand: Poppy
- Published on: 2014-04-22
- Released on: 2014-04-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .83 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
- Great product!
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up-Rory is thrilled to be joining her aunt at a beach mansion in New York's Hamptons for the summer. One small wrinkle, though: Fee is the housekeeper, and Rory will be an unpaid errand girl for the fabulously wealthy Rule family. It won't be exactly carefree, blissful fun in the sun, but it will be a departure from small-town New Jersey and the parade of her hair-stylist mother's boyfriends. The youngest Rule daughter, Isabel, also decides to try something new: a romance with Mike, a salt-of-the-earth, local surfer who seems to be calling the shots, and that's a first for her. Gone are the salad lunches with gossip about the same old, same old. Now it's an older guy and a whole different sphere of people. After a rocky start, Rory and Isabel find themselves in an upstairs-downstairs friendship in which Rory tries to teach Isabel to drive while Isabel resolves to find Rory a boyfriend. The guy Rory really likes is Isabel's older brother. Maybe Conner even likes her, but the exacting Mrs. Rule, who fires cooks with alarming frequency, would look down her nose at such an unsuitable attachment. In this serviceable summer romance novel, the girls and their love interests are fleshed out nicely.-Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Sugar Hill, GAα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
Philbin returns to writing about the rich and privileged with this upstairs-downstairs take. Rory McShane is escaping her boring life in New Jersey to be an errand girl for the wealthy Rule family, where Isabel Rule reigns as the rebellious youngest child and Queen of the Hamptons. The two girls soon form an unlikely friendship and help each other navigate summer romances—and growing up in general. Specifically, Isabel meets a local surfer who is a bit dangerous, while Rory crushes on Conner Rule. Brand names, country clubs, parties, and social class issues abound, and Isabel and Rory are both likable characters as they battle against social orders. There are family secrets to add drama, though much of the surprise is lost because they are not developed until near the end. The strength of the novel is in Isabel and Rory’s friendship and romantic relationships, where Isabel’s story line is a bit more realistic than Rory’s. Both, though, are well done, making this book a good, light summer beach read. Grades 9-12. --Sarah Bean Thompson
Review
"Even if you never plant a Jack Roger-ed foot in the Hamptons, Philbin takes you there."―USA Today
"Rules of Summer is a delicious read about two girls from very different worlds sharing one unforgettable summer."―Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, authors of Spoiled and Messy
"Friendship, first love, and an unforgettable setting -- Rules of Summer is the perfect summer read. Read it at the beach (or if you just want to feel like you're at the beach). I loved it!"―Morgan Matson, author of Second Chance Summer and Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Little More Depth To This Summer Tale Would Have Been Nice
By Ink and Page
The Low Down: Rory needs to get away for the summer. Her mother sucks the life out of her, and she needs to get away as far as possible from her mom's revolving door of boyfriends and break-ups. Rory jumps at the chance of working in the Hamptons with her aunt for the Rule family, even though it's for no pay.
Rory soon learns that Isabel Rule is the family troublemaker. Sneaking boys in her room and failing her driving test (again) are just the latest chapters in a long line of screw ups. But once Rory is assigned to help Isabel pass her test, the two girls start to spend more time together than is comfortable. Can they find anything that they have in common?
And then Isabel's brother, Connor, shows up. Sweet, gorgeous and down-to-earth, Connor draws in Rory with a gentle tug...but is he just being nice?
Isabel has always felt like an outsider in her own family, especially since the incident last summer. Her parents packed her up and sent her to school in California, and she hasn't been home since. Things that she used to love - her best friends, Thayer and Dawson, hanging out at the country club and attention from all of the boys they see every summer - has become unfulfilling and boring. How could she ever think that was fun? And that girl who's staying with them all summer...why does she always look like she's passing judgment?
Underneath it all, there are some secrets that have been hidden for far too long...
So, Basically: I love summer beach stories. They take everyone out of the ordinary and make it seem like anything is possible. A summer romance always sounds good on paper. I must say that I much preferred Isabel's story line; it had more bite and more depth. The tale of Rory was pretty flimsy and one-note. The inept-mom-who-doesn't-want-to-grow-up character is a little tired. Rory felt like a stick figure while Isabel was a full-blown sculpture.
Rules of Summer by Joanna Philbin was published June 4, 2013 by Poppy. Ink and Page picked this book up from the library, so no one had a choice about whether it was reviewed.
Rating: 3
Genre: Young Adult Fiction Contemporary Romance
Ages: 12 and up
You Might Want to Know: Some profanity
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Predictable, but Good
By Maggie
Whether I loved or hated this book I was destined to have strong feelings about it either way. The story takes place in "the Hamptons" which is where I grew up (and I'm momentarily back living now). The story mostly takes place in East Hampton and I grew up in Westhampton. While they're both in the Hamptons they're very different places. That said, I completely related to this book. The hectic feeling of stepping off the train, seeing all the potato fields, calling the Jitney "the Jitney" rather than a bus (it seriously would never in a million years occur to me to call the Jitney a bus). I can also picture many of the places in the story: the Citarella, Ralph Lauren, and Tiffany on Main Street in East Hampton. And the traffic, oh how I can relate to the traffic. I work in Westhampton which most of the time is a ten-minute drive from my house. On a weekend in the summer? It's about 20-minutes. Plus the drivers are lunatics, it's like taking your life in your hands. Lots of "cidiots" as we used to call them.
Anyway, personally I always think I'm more critical of books that I can personally relate to the experience or the setting. I have to say that I think Joanna Philbin did a pretty great job describing the area and the class differences. I especially liked how Rory described the beach club as being kind of dumpy (all the fancy beach clubs I've been to have always been kind of plain and out-dated) and how Isabel goes to Riverhead to take her driving test (that's where I took my driving test!) and one of Isabel's friends describes Riverhead as depressing (it is, but it's gotten a little better).
On to the story. I liked the story. In a Top Ten Tuesday post I described it, prior to reading it, as a modern Downton Abbey set in the Hamptons. And it kind of was, there was definitely an upstairs/downstairs division. I guess Isabel could be a bitchier Sybil and the rude housekeeper Biana could be O'Brien, but I think, if I'm going to compare it to a TV show, Revenge is the way to go (although the setting in Revenge looks nothing like the Hamptons, I had two Australian tourists tell me it's actually shot in NC). Mrs. Rule is totally Victoria Grayson, Isabel is Charlotte, Mike (Isabel's love interest) could be Jack, and Connor (Isabel's brother) is a better Daniel. I don't quite know who Rory is in either of these situations, Branson maybe?
Anyway, this rambling review is a perfect example of why I should beer drink and write reviews simultaneously. Cheers!
Back to the story. I liked the story, I don't think it was anything groundbreaking, but it was definitely compelling and I especially liked the characters. I didn't love how it seemed to scream "EPIC!" and "SOAP OPERA!" I don't know if it's because it was written in the third-person (which only occasionally bothered me) or just the style, but in my head I kept doing the narrator's voice from Days of Our Lives, "Like sounds through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives." And that kind of bothered me, but not enough to make me not enjoy the book.
Then there are the secrets. Honestly? I thought they were super predictable. And I expected, because I guessed them pretty early on, that there would be twists and turns or major drama around them coming out, but there wasn't. They were fully revealed at practically the end of the book, they came out, and everyone moved on. It was very anti-climatic. Even though they weren't crazy, I liked the secrets part of the story and I wish it has been explored more.
I guess there's going to be a sequel? Which is fine with me. I'll be happy to read it. But I also wish this had been a stand alone. I don't think a sequel is really necessary. Everything could have been wrapped up in a single book, but hopefully the author has some great ideas to expand on the story.
Bottom Line: This is one I really enjoyed, partially because it's set in my own backyard. The story isn't anything too unique, but the characters are likable and interesting and I found myself really caring about them. It's predictable, but the way the story is told is still interesting enough for me to happily recommend it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Fun Summer reading
By Grandma
This is a story of a wealthy, dysfunctional family who spends the Summer at their resort home. The teenage daughter is looking for love, understanding, and friends. It is light reading and just fun. I enjoyed not having to think critically or understand a deep concept. I enjoyed it!
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