It's Not Summer Without You. What would you do if you lost the people you love most? In the book It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han, Isabella Conklin is a young girl trying to find who she is and what she wants. She struggles with figuring out her feelings, understanding them, and finding her new life after her best friend passes. She's been struggling with these problems her whole life. Will she ever find herself? Throughout Isabella's life, she's always had her mom's best friend Susannah by her side. Isabella and Susannah always would go on shopping trips together and would take her to balls. Susannah was always obsessed with Isabella, like she was her own daughter. (Han, Page 21) “you've always been so lovely, but oh honey, look at …show more content…
She's always been in love with Conrad, but Conrad has always played with Isabella's feelings and been careless. He'd tell Isabella that he loves her, but then goes off without girls. (Han, Page 34) “What does it matter?” “Her name is Aubrey.” He would meet new girls at bonfires and bring them around and Isabella would see. He would always be so confused with her. She would try and tell Conrad how she felt, like he would only be rude to her. (Han, Page 244) “Well you shouldn't, I'm not the one.'' But then he would. The things he would say to her absolutely destroyed her constantly. Isabella finally realized after 6 years she realized Conrad was never worth her time and energy and gave up on him. Conrad's brother Jeremiah was best friends with Isabella, so Isabella would always go to him when she needed someone. He would always be there for her whenever or whenever she needed him. (Han, Page 261) “He leaned over and pulled me towards him and kissed me.” Jeremiah always had feelings for Isabella because she never knew. Jeremiah admitted all his feelings for her. Isabella finally got treated like she always wanted to be treated by someone but she would have never guessed it would be Jeremiah