Weekly drops of The Summer I Turned Pretty really aren’t enough. I need to know how the show ends, like, now. Thankfully, The Summer I Turned Pretty books by Jenny Han have been out for 14 years. For the impatient among you, here’s what ending Jeremiah gets in The Summer I Turned Pretty books.
Jeremiah has a frat boy era
He changes a lot as he gets older, and not for the better. When Jeremiah’s a teenager, everyone thinks his mischievousness is cute in a kind of “boys will be boys” way. Once he goes off to college in the third book, We’ll Always Have Summer, this side of him gets worse. He jokes he studies “beerology” because he spends more time drinking than actually working. And yes, he does cheat on Belly with another student, and apologies to her… by proposing marriage. Erm, okay.
Sorry, but he doesn’t end up with Belly
Jeremiah behaves as immaturely as possible in pretty much every chapter of We’ll Always Have Summer. Once he’s engaged to Belly, he seems to care more about rubbing it in Conrad’s face than he cares about Belly. Conrad eventually tells Belly he still likes her. Plus, he and Conrad argue over a letter from their mother. Jeremiah responds by starting a literal fight with Conrad, dramatically declaring they’re no longer brothers, and banning him from the wedding. He properly confronts Belly about her lingering feelings for Conrad. She admits to still liking Conrad. Her exact works are: “I think I’ll always love him a little bit. I’ll always have him in my heart. But he’s not the one I choose. I choose you, Jeremiah.”
If they all showed just 10 per cent more common sense than their lives would be so much easier, I swear
Unsurprisingly, Jeremiah dumps her. Fair enough. They don’t get married.
In the epilogue, Jeremiah does pop up at Belly and Conrad’s wedding. The book reads: “I look out the window, and there is Jere across the lawn. He has his arm around his date, and our eyes meet. He gives me a small wave. I wave back and blow him a kiss. He smiles and turns back to his date.”
That’s the last we see of him.
The show might end differently to the books
The author Jenny Han has said Belly won’t have to outright choose one of the brothers in the show. She hinted the TV show might end differently to how the books did. So maybe Jeremiah won’t get end same disastrous ending in The Summer I Turned Pretty show as he did in the books?
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