September Girls by Bennett Madison is about a boy named Sam who is forced to spend the summer at the beach with his dad, who seems to live in a haze and older brother who is a sex crazed, frat boy. During the summer Sam notices that all the girls in town at least the gorgeous ones with blonde hair are stalking him. Sam tries to brush this off but when he meets DeeDee he realizes that something isn't quite right with the beautiful blondes of the island. 
 As interesting as this summary sounds the book itself bored the living daylights out of me. It is very hard to get into and there is no conflict resolution...in other words the ending was terrible. September Girls has a great premise but was not executed properly. I finished the book in a hurry because I was hoping that the pace would speed up and something interesting would happen. I'm not sure if Madison planned on his book taking a lazy but boring pace but that is exactly what happens. (view spoiler)[And *SPOILERS* the only way the girls can break the curse is if they have sex with a virgin? What?! This is the main plot twist! I was expecting more especially when "mermaids" are involved or at least I think they were mermaids... It is never clear who the September Girls are. Sam is a vanilla character with not much spark and the sub-plot concerning his mother seemed to be thrown in. (hide spoiler)] 
 I gave it two stars because I did like the characters DeeDee and Kristle and I found it moderately enjoyable. Oh, and I liked the cover.