A strong start fizzled into a fairly mediocre conclusion packed full of trite cliches and bogged down by unnecessary tragedy. When I started Summer of Supernovas, I was in LOVE with Wil's voice. She's so aware of herself and unabashed about who she is. I love her style, her passion for both astronomy and astrology, her love for Irina and Gram. When a character starts strong, they must falter and experience low points or they'd stay the same (boring) or get even stronger (unrelatable, unrealistic, AND boring). That's the point of fiction. But I found Wil's low points absurdly cliche. I'm okay with tropes and recycled plot points and twisting them to make new stories, but you HAVE to make them fit the story, not make the story fit the trope or it willfeel out of place. The one-two punch (one two three four five etc punch?) of the dead mom and the missing dad and the family member keeping secrets and the medical emergency and the love triangle and the boys with naughty pasts and the LI having a secret and the tragic LI backstory and the magical makeout that makes the MC feel something/forget her troubles and I. Just. Can't. A couple of those could have worked, but all together they erased Wil's story to create a patchwork of tired plot devices that didn't fit or make the story unique. They felt so out of place. Also, the big conclusion let me down in a very spoiler way that I'll talk about when I'm not lazy and can do a spoiler tag. 
 I think Summer of Supernovas had great potential, and unfortunately, for me it didn't meet it. But I quite like Darcy Woods' s writing, and I would like to read more from her. Wilamena was a really cool mc. She was funny and unique not in a not-like-other-girls way, but in a makes-for-a-fun-narrator way. I hope to read more characters like her.