Summer sons

 Ch 1 

Narrator had a dead friend that recently graduated from THE Ohio state university. It's an apprarant suicide.  He doens't bel8eve it.  He's picking up said dead friend's car from the impound lot.  He has to Pay $223 for this.  He's all pissy about it even through he recently inherited over seven million dollars.  Another friend that was also friends with the deceised came along. Narrator wishes they had not.  Friend wants Narrator to go home. Narrator is going to get to the bottom of dead friends death as there's no way he would have committed suicide. 

Narrator drives his dead friends car and some sort of horrible ghost viewing that ng.  He thinks it was his dead friend.  This i s not new to narrator.  He has been seeing ghosts for three week s.

ch 2 pg 14

Narrator us named Andrew, room mate is named Riley. 

Apple Jacks are a shitty cereal.  Narrator should have had Cheerios oat crunch.

They are from Tennessee.   There was a thing six years ago with ghosts in a cave and they've been able to see ghosts ever since.  That's why they moved to Ohio and went to THE Ohio State University. Looks like Eddie (narrator's adopted brother and I'm guessing boyfriend even though no one has said that so far.  )  decided to come back to to Tennessee,  specifically to Nashville and Vanderbilt. 

I'm going to Nashville in September and I think I'm gonna take a tour of Vanderbilt because of this book.

Eddie says in his journal he can see ghosts and he sees them better than Andrew and he sees them best closest to their home town.  Andrew has a ghost attack him in his dreams but somehow Eddie's ghost saves him or wakes him up or something.  Maybe this ghost killed Eddie and made it look like a suicide.

Ch 3 pg 27

Riley comes home with his cousin a d Andrew is not having it.  They leave.  Riley comes back later with his girlfriend and Andrew is still not having it.  As Riley us leaving he suggests that Andrew get his shut together enough to attend class tomorrow.  Eddie had set up everything bought the books and all and Andrew just has to show up.  Andrew appears to do just that.  Riley comes home super drunk.  He's gotta teach class tomorrow morning.  Getting drunk was a mistake.  In his drunk Ness he says to Andrew he's on board with the ghost stuff and he wants to help.  This passes Amdrew right off.  Why would Eddie have told Riley all this? They didn't even tell their third wheel Del about this stuff.

Ch 4 pg 39

Andrew has one class and his student advisor, who was also Eddie's student advisor,  is in it and he doesn't like the roommate and kinda blames Eddie's suicide on him and his crew.  They go out to dinner and as per usual Andrew is just not having.it.  he goes home and sleeps without an evil ghost attack.  

ch 5 pg 50

He wakes up and goes to get his car.  He's been driving Eddie's car.

When he gets back there's a note from room mate saying he'll be home by 3.  It's Tuesday and Amdrew doesn't have class again til Thursday so he's just.kinda hanging.out.

He goes to campus to talk to student advisor and his faculty advisor.   She was working on stuff with Eddie and I guess Andrew is gonna pick it up.  The way he describes the student advisor as having a russet brown chest makes me think they should have relations.

Ch 6 pg 62

This is the saddest Fast and Furious movie.

Ch 7 pg 76

Nothing interesting happens in this chapter.  Narrator skips class and has a text fight with Del and looks for dead boyfriend's phone.

Ch 8 pg 86

Narrator goes to a party with room mate.  Room mate's bad cousin is the host of the party.  Room mate makes out with a guy named Ethan.  Narrator hears someone call room mate the F word and fight happens.  Of course a fight happens.  Narrator is furious and likes to drive fast.  Room mate is trans.  Narrator says hes not gay.

Ch 9 pg 101

On the way back home there's a ghost incident.  Riley wants to talk about it. Amdrew does not.

The amount of ignoring texts in this  book makes me itch.  

Ch 10 pg 114

Narrator doesnt give a fick about school.  He's just here to find Eddie's killer.

Ch 11 pg 127

Andrew and Riley go to Sam's to hang out.  It's a much more cosmopolitan crowd as Riley's girlfriend is there and was specifically not there at the party where the fight happened.  At one point there's a bit of a flashback to what I am choosing to believe was a three way with Del, Eddie and Andrew.

Lonely island song: its ok when it's in a three way.  It's not gay, when it's in a three way.  With a lady in the middle there's some leeway.  The areas Grey in a one two three way.

Tonight is about car racing.  Andrew races Riley's girlfriend and gets distracted by Eddie's ghost and loses pretty bad and freaks out to get out of the car and throws up.

Ch 12 pg 138

Andrew goes to a graveyard and has a fun ghost thing where he sees Eddie die.  He doesn't see the wrist slashing happen but as Eddie is bleeding out, he sees he doesn't want to die.

Ch 13 pg 151

Ethan and Andrew race their Toyota Supras around on the highway.  They go to a rave party at a ladies house and they do drugs.  They talk a lot about Eddie.  The big revelation is that Sam doesn't wanna talk about the ghost stuff cause he's ashamed of his whacky hill witch grandma.   Room mate is down with it though.  Of course, all the ghost stuff is an alagory for gay so that makes hella sense.  But if Eddie was trying to get Sam to talk about ghost stuff tha obvious conclusion is that they were both closeted together maybe or something. 

More than anything,  everyone assumed Andrew was Eddie's boyfriend.

Ch 14 pg 164

Sam takes Andrew to where Eddie's buddy was found.  Andrew uses his ghost powers to se Eddie didn't die here.  His body was dragged here.

Ch 15 pg 174

Andrew tells Riley about his ghost experience with in the woods.

Ch 16 pg 185

Andrew finally meets the professor in person.  Turns out she knew Eddie's parents and all about their past. A drew just can't even so he gies to Sam's house and they drink a Sixer while they drive around. 

Ch 17 

Andrew and Riley start looking into Eddie's academic stuff and there's Hella stuff missing. The theory is maybe he stumbled upon something dangerous in his research and that's what got him killed.

Ch 18 pg 208

Andrew meets with the professor and she doesn't have the stuff from Eddie he's looking for but she does have notes based on the interviews he told her about.

Del shows up and pretty much tells Andrew to fuck off forever.

Ch 19

This chapter is all academic stuff i kinda dont care about.

the big take away is that Sam and Riley are happy to help Andrew in following the academic trail 👣 to find Eddie's killer.

ch 20 pg 229

More academic stuff.  He has a beer with West and it doesn't go well mostly because he accuses him of having stolen some of Eddie's academic materials. Andrew drives home. He has a ghost encounter in Eddie's car and realizes most of his ghost encounters have taken place in the car.  Also he hasn't looked in the trunk.  He goes into the trunk and has a vision of Eddie's dead body I'm the trunk.

Ch 21 pg 240

Andrew has a pretty significant ghost experience. Riley finds him laying in the driveway all bloody withs shallow cuts all over his arms.  Andrew finds some old people to interview. Sam invites himself along.  They eat chicken wings on the way.  Turns out these old people live near. Eddie's old house and they say oh, so you must be here to ask about the curse.

ch 22

The people tell them about the curse.  Some long ago (pre civil war) ancestor of eddies has a sick wife and kills his sister at the crossroads as an offering to the devil to cure his sick wife.  It doesnt work and the family is cursed ever after.

andrew is real shook by this.  Here is a piece of writing i like a lot...

The loss of grounding pressure on his scalp when Sam switched his hand to the gearshift almost spun him off the face of the earth.

Eddie's Parents died in a car crash.  Drove head first into a tree.

Sam tells Andrew to keep Riley out of his ghost adventures.  Andrew tells him to fuck off.  Sam calls him a spoiled.  Andrew tells him the story of the cave as if that's gonna make him not spoiled.

Ch 23 pg 262

Boring academic stuff

Ch 24 pg

Party at the prof's place.  Old plantation house.  Gives Riley the heeby jeebies.  Prof's husband is almost dead to the point Andrew can feel it.  Prof has a dead daughter.

Ch 25 pg 282

Car racing 

Ch 26 pg 295

Sam and Andrew have Andrew  birthday sex in Riley's bed 

Ch 27 pg 308

Sam and Andrew are getting hot and heavy at Sam's place.  Some supernatural shit fucks their shit up.  Just in the nick of time,  Riley shows up to save the day.  He does so by removing Eddie's ring from amdrews finger. 

So they found some book that says more about Eddie's family curse.  Mostly that the curse is great because of the sacrifice Eddie's ancestors made and they have been Hella fortunate ever since because of it.  The current theory is that whoever killed Eddie did it with the hope that the curse would pass on to them.  But who would think that.  Maybe the professor?

.ch 28 pg 321

Sam and Andrew go to the professor's house and she drugs them.

Ch 29 pg 336

Sam and andrew are tied up in the barn.  Sam on the ground, Andrew on a chair.  Somehow Eddie's ghost saves the day by giving Andrew supernatural power to break the ropes enough to take a couple bites out of the professor.  Sam does his part in this whole thing by killing the professors husband choking him to death with the handcuffs he is bound with. But they're both messed up bad and Sam calls 911 and asks for help.

Ch 30 pg 349

Eddie's ghost is just sorta in Andrew all the time now and that doesn't sit right with Sam so they're just not talking.  Sam lost and eye in the fight. Also, some of Andrew's blood made it's way into Sam and Sam can kinda see ghosts now.  At the very least he can clearly see that Eddie is in Andrew when Amdrew goes to Sam's house to try to win him over. Sam ain't gonna be no side piece so as long as Eddie is in Andrew Sam wants no part in him.

West is suing the school on account of his advisor killing a dude and trying to kill two other dudes..

Andrew asks Riley for help with the Eddie ghost problem. 

Ch 31

They burn down Eddie's ancestral home to get rid of his ghost.

Sam isn't willing to jump back into a romantic relationship with Andrew,  but he's willing to give him a fresh start.