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Review: The Summer of Jordi Perez

This is the sort of book that can best be enjoyed in the season that it was read in. In this case, that was summer. Alas, I read this in winter, so I'm going to be critical. (What else is new?) The Summer of Jordi Perez is a brief read about Abby, a 17 year old girl who blogs about plus sized fashion. She lands a summer internship at her favorite store, Lemonberry. She is the social media intern, and on her first day, she meets the photography intern, Jordi. There's just one problem; there's only room for one of them at the company, and Abby is developing a crush on Jordi.
Ultimately, it was a cute story with a disappointing ending and a sort of lackluster plot.
First of all, there was the matter of the best burger in Los Angeles. Abby became friends with this sort of one dimensional jock named Jax, and his father was launching a ranking app. Together, they decided to rank the best burgers. However, for something in the title, it had maybe fifteen pages in the actual book. It just wasn't relevant, and at the end of the book, there was a throwaway line about how the best burger was actually In-n-out burger. I've never had an In-n-out burger, but I assume it's the California equivalent of friendly's. It seemed like the Burger was forgotten about until the last few pages.
The eventual romance between Jordi and Abby was pretty cute. No complaints there. It was more the conflict described on the flap that annoyed me. This is just one of my pet peeves, but  hate when something is described as happening on the flap of a book, but then said event doesn't happen for hundreds of pages. That was the case here, when Jordi's betrayal of Abby didn't happen until page 240 of a 270 page book. She then got over it in about ten pages, leaving the rest of the plot to wrap up quickly. I didn't really see what the big deal about the "betrayal" was. Essentially, Jordi took pictures of Abby and then posted them at a gallery. I would be upset about this at first, but Abby reacts by breaking up with Jordi after she takes the pictures down. Jordi should have asked Abby first, but her actions weren't malicious at all.
My biggest problem was that the internship at lemonberry wasn't resolved. At the end of the book, they just both decide that they would be happy with whoever gets it. That's cute and all, but I still want to know as it was one of the main conflicts.
All in all, the writing and romance were nice, but the ending was lackluster and needed more thought put into it. Read this, but only if you aren't going to analyze it.

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