Summer Days & Summer Nights is a YA anthology of twelve summer romances by twelve different authors including Leigh Bardugo, Stephanie Perkins and Cassandra Clare. To be honest, I picked up this book because I was in a bad reading slump and I was desperate to get myself out of it. I hate being in reading slumps! Anyway, this book wasn't the perfect remedy or anything, but it did help. Some of the stories were really lovely to read, but some just made me go "WTF?" I'll be elaborating in my review below, where I review each individual story and articulate my thoughts! 
 STORY 1: Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail by Leigh Bardugo 
 Okay, so this was definitely one of the best! It was a story with a lovely magical sea monster twist. I know I gave up on Six of Crows halfway, but damn, Leigh Bardugo really writes good. I'll probably pick SOC back up soon. Anyway, I loved the ending of the story especially - it was beautiful, but in a sad way. And the romance is pretty good. 
 "Eli kissed Gracie like she was a song and he was determined to hear every note. He kissed her the way he did everything else - seriously." 
 Creativity, quirkiness, romance all rolled into one. 5 stars. 
 STORY 2: The End of Love by Nina LaCour 
 First up, this story has f/f rep. Apparently this author writes f/f storylines too, since she's lesbian herself. I really need to check out her books! I've been DYING to read more f/f stories since there's so little representation. I'm giving this story 4 stars. It was good, but I felt like there was a lack of closure to things - they got together at the end, which was of course the entire point, but I really did want to know what happened with Flora and her family afterward, and her juggling her new house and her new relationships. 
 STORY 3: Last Stand At The Cinegore by Libba Bray 
 This was a horror story! Well, not I-couldn't-finish-because-I-would-have-nightmares horror, but riveting, almost-comical horror. Like, horror comedy? I actually laughed out loud a few times reading this story. And I thought the author's take on summer romance was really interesting. Right when you're expecting light, funny plots, she goes and delivers a rather dark one involving an old cinema with a gory name and an owner whom nobody has seen since like the 1960s. I liked the main characters, Kevin, Dave and Dani and their casual banter in the first few pages, but in some later 10 pages or so, she wrote a lot of useless dialogue as filler that wasn't even funny and didn't even help the plot. If that hadn't existed I'd give it 5 stars. So I'm giving this story 4.5 stars, but it very nearly made the cut. It was such a good story, though. 
 STORY 4: Sick Pleasure by Francesca Lia Block 
 I felt like this story had the likelihood of being written by a teenager. Seriously. It has that whole emotional vibe, the vibe of destroying yourself and loving the process, or losing your virginity after getting drunk with some guy, or the whole "Maybe someday" or "Maybe in future" thing, or the "I hope he will see this" thing. Literally, the ending ends with it. Okay, so it was quite cool to use letters as names, like maybe-pseudonyms, characters named J and L and M and A and the main character named I, but that's like where all the good points about this story end. I guess this story focuses on the dark side of summer romance. The main character started dancing with A, liked A, got angsty because A never returned her calls after they each told each other this huge thing about their lives, like him revealing that the place he took her to wasn't really his house and her telling him that her dad has cancer and she had to leave for college in the fall. Then being angsty, she hooked up with some guy and lost her virginity, and then at the end of this sob story, ended up saying "Maybe A will see this story" and all that crap. I just realised I'm going on a really long rant here, but I just didn't enjoy this story in general. Even the title is like, what?? Not related to the story at all!! I feel like the author named it for clickbait (in this case, readbait?) or something. I wanted to give it a 2, but in the end I decided on 3 stars. Okay, scratch that. A 2.5 it is because it just doesn't deserve 3. 
 STORY 5: In Ninety Minutes, Turn North by Stephanie Perkins 
 Good for you if you like a fluffy, soft reunion read. I can't really find any major flaws in this story, but it isn't, like, jaw-droppingly amazing either. Anyway, this is my first time reading Stephanie Perkins' writing, and I guess I'm giving it 4 stars. 
 STORY 6: Souvenirs by Tim Federle 
 This was a m/m story, and I thought this story was gonna be good, but it turns out that it was just really boring. Like, fall-asleep boring. I couldn't care less about this guy's breakup, which the entire story focused on. For Christ's sake, I signed up for romances, not breakups! I don't know if breakups count as part of romances, probably they do, but at least write an interesting one. The guy spent lots of time thinking about himself and his boyfriend interacting than actually interacting with his boyfriend. And I couldn't connect to both of them - boring 2D characters. I'm giving this story 2 stars. 
 STORY 7: Inertia by Veronica Roth 
 I've never trusted Roth since she totally blindsided me with Allegiant's ending and left me scarred. This story incorporated some science fiction in it which was quite interesting. At least she didn't let the male love interest die this time. 3 stars. 
 STORY 8: Love Is The Last Resort by Jon Skovron 
 This story literally takes place at a resort. It was quite funny. I found it rather quirky, especially because of the ending when it's revealed that the mute (or silent-by-choice) guy has been the narrator all this time. 3.5 stars! 
 STORY 9: Good Luck and Farewell by Brandy Colbert 
 The spiel of this story is totally unrealistic. Girl and cousin's girlfriend's brother meet at a farewell party, and in like 2 hours, they're sharing secrets with each other and then kissing. Oh, and there was the little fact that the brother thought the girl was being a bitch to his sister and didn't like her at first. Hello?? The author seems like she couldn't think of a better setting or a more well-developed plot at all. I didn't get the whole story at all and it was not only unrealistic but really plain and really boring and I had to force myself to keep reading. 2 stars. 
 STORY 10: Brand New Attraction by Cassandra Clare 
 Okay, I swear I honestly tried to go blind and unbiased into this story. I really did, but maybe some of my Cassie love might've still rubbed off on me because I'm giving this 5 stars. I don't care. This story is AMAZING. It was nice reading a Cassie story without all that forbidden love spiel for once, and I was really amazed and pleased with how well she delivered. The story surprisingly wasn't that focused on the romance as I expected, and it was fun to see how Cassie wrote in demons, and power, and magic that kept a circus going. If I had any doubts before this, there are now none. Cassie is a really great fantasy writer. 
 STORY 11: A Thousand Ways This Could All Go Wrong 
 A cute and quirky story with autism rep. 3.5 stars. I really liked how the author portrayed these autistic kids as normal, ordinary kids with no discrimination against them. The female MC is a badass too. Excellent representation, in my opinion. 
 STORY 12: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things 
 This story was an interesting one about time staying still and the same day happening over and over again, and two out-of-the-loop (quite literally) teenagers being the only ones who know that it's happening when everyone else is unaware. I liked the idea of them documenting each perfect or beautiful moment they saw on a map - and I think after reading I have come to realise that many things are actually miracles, no matter how tiny, and we don't always have to wait for something big to happen before we appreciate it. This story was so layered and really fun to read. 4 stars! 
 Overall this anthology would get a rating of 3.6 stars! This book did get me out of my reading slump and I'm glad for it. I definitely recommend it for a summer read.