4.5 
 Well Stephanie Perkins put together another great anthology to go with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. This time the theme is, obviously, summer-based love stories and like its predecessor I felt it really captured the feeling of that time of year. 
 While reading, and yes this book is YA, I got to thinking about how summer is such a transitional time of year for the YA age group. School is out, you're either going into a higher grade or your done with high school and embarking on college. There's this sense of adventure, yet this kind of apprehension about taking those next steps. Many authors captured this precarious time perfectly. 
 I enjoyed reading the authors that are new to me, and I enjoyed reading new stories by authors in which I'm only familiar with one book or series, as well as authors that I've heard of but never read before. 
 Jon Skovron's Love is the Last Resort stands out as my favorite. I loved the voice of the story and the humor and how it was contentedly a "non-romance" wink, wink 
 I also enjoyed revisiting the characters that were featured in Stephanie Perkins' short story in My True Love Gave to me here in In Ninety Minutes, Turn North. Fans of the first anthology will love seeing Marigold and North again. 
 And though I enjoyed all the stories, other stand-outs in this anthology are: 
 Lev Grossman's The Map of Tiny Perfect Things 
 Libba Bray's Last Stand at the Cinegore 
 Veronica Roth's Inertia 
 Honestly, like I said, all the stories are top notch. These mentioned were ones that particularly stood out for me. 
 Summer Days & Summer Nights yet again proves that Stephanie Perkins can put together a great group of authors. Here's hoping we get one for Spring and Fall too. 
 *ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.