Marked as DNF 5/16/16: I received this book from the publisher so I really did want to give it a good try but hey, life is short and I have better things to be doing with my time than hate-reading a book. 
 Let's start off with saying this book isn't BAD but it really is not for me. I saw that some of my friends really loved it and we usually get along on books but this one started off rocky from the first chapter and just didn't get better. It was rather cheesy and really seemed to throw so many tropes and cliches all into one instead of letting the story sort of unfold naturally. 
 The characters were decent enough but the situations were so silly. Way too over the top. I also hated the way the characters were treated/referenced (like guys straight up making comments about Wil's boobs. They weren't LEWD comments but edging on it and inappropriate for teen lit, IMO. At least it really turned me off). I'm not even usually sensitive to these kinds of things but once they start adding up, it became a glaring issue. Everything was just so dramatic too. Really? You're gonna nearly pass out because cute guy is a Pisces? Someone is gonna call 911 because you look like you're jumping off a water tower AND THEN fall halfway down and the fire dept catches you??? I mean. It was cheesetastic. 
 I have books I REALLY want to read and I'm just so upset with so many things so I'm just passing on the rest of this. I really did give it a try but it's not working out and whatever the end of this book is I A) don't care and B) can't imagine it saving the beginning. Oh and the love triangle Kbye 
 Full DNF thoughts as originally posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide 5/27/16: SUMMER OF SUPERNOVAS sounded really cute and like the perfect light, summery read! I thought the astrology angle sounded very fun so I was excited to start when I received a copy for review from Penguin Random House! Checking out the ratings on Goodreads after finishing, it looks like I'm the total black sheep here. The book has a 4.16 rating (as of the day that I'm writing my review) which is pretty dang good and something I often look at before picking up a book... So I think I sadly just didn't quite mesh with SUMMER OF SUPERNOVAS from the start! 
 I'm all for meet-cute moments and SUMMER OF SUPERNOVAS had quite a moment of its own to kick off the book! Maybe it was just my mood but the whole first chapter felt quite overdone and really just over the top for me. I'm not averse to things getting a little silly but when instance upon instance is piled one on top of the other, they start to lose their humor and just start to get cheesy. I really couldn't get over how many "sillly" moments there were in the first chapter alone and the whole thing just really wasn't working out for me. A misunderstanding, a near-death (or maybe just near-serious injury) experience, an accidental flashing, AND the meet cute with the boy-with-the-wrong-sign all in the first chapter was just too much all at once. 
 Then there were the things that flat out turned me off, which sadly were a few within the first few chapters. The entire premise of the book is based off of the fact that Wil puts a ton of faith in her astrology charts. According to the latest, she needs to find her true love this year, otherwise she'll be off-sync with the dating world for another ten years, a which time in her words she will be an spinster at twenty-seven with ten cats. I realize that maybe for some teens, 27 is a long way away and many people may not want to be single well into their 20s, but I really didn't appreciate the message that it's not okay to be single at 27-years-old and that those who are have something wrong with them. I really didn't like that this was the entire concept of the book and the reason why Wil is pressing to find herself a match in this immediate moment. 
 I also had issues with the way the characters talked about each other. I'm all for owning your sexuality but when Wil shows up to an event trying to play down some of her curves with a blouse and pencil skirt, a guy makes a comment about her figure calling her a sexy school teacher and actually refers to her breasts as apples. It just felt all wrong and something that really wasn't appropriate for a young adult audience. I'm not saying that teenagers don't say things like that but it felt like she was being a bit objectified and since I'm not someone who usually takes offense to these kinds of things when I'm reading, it really threw up a red flag for me that I found this so off-putting. 
 Lastly, the love triangle was just not working out for me either. I know people have some very strong opinions about love triangles but if they're done well, they do often feel realistic and they really don't bother me. When they're not done well, it's instantly frustrating. I actually ended up getting confused between the two guys at first because I felt like they were so similar for some reason and then we find out... they're brothers. Sigh. Like I said, I don't mind love triangles but the choosing-between-two-brothers triangle seems about as tropey as you can get and this just felt forced. 
 Sadly, I really struggled with SUMMER OF SUPERNOVAS. I just didn't jive with the writing overall and there were so many situations that felt much more dramatic than they needed to be. Once I started off on a bad foot, the rest of the book kind of slowly kept spiraling in the same direction and there wasn't much to really pull myself out of that funk. There were a lot of things that seemed to be in the story for the sake of the story but didn't quite flow naturally and I never found my rhythm with this book. Lots of friends have enjoyed it for it's cutesy quality and just a light and fun read but this one just didn't work out for me.