‘Summer I Turned Pretty’ EP Jenny Han on Major Changes From Her Book, the Love Triangle’s Endgame and Using Taylor Swift Songs
Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 1 of “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.Those who read Jenny Han’s 2009 novel “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” and the two books that followed, knew a bit of what to expect from the series, which dropped its first season on Friday, June 17.The premise was simple: A young girl, Belly, and her mom go to a beach house every summer and stay with the mother’s best friend and her sons. Bely has always had a crush on one of the boys, Conrad, and is best friends with his brother, Jeremiah. Ahead of her 16th birthday, she returned back to the beach once again and they all took notice that she was no longer a little girl.