The Summer I Turned Pretty book trilogy follows the coming-of-age of 16-year-old Isabel “Belly” Conklin as she spends summers in the fictional beach town of Cousins Beach with her mother Laurel, older brother Steven, and her mother’s childhood best friend Susannah and her sons Conrad and Jeremiah — two brothers who Belly gets wrapped up in a love triangle with.
Tsitp season 3 will follow the chronology of Han’s novels and feature a time jump. The next book in the trilogy, titled We’ll Always Have Summerwas published in 2011 and picks up with Belly and Jeremiah in college and very much still in a relationship.
According to a new interview with Entertainment Weekly on May 20, 2025, author Jenny Han confirms the time jump will be two years long. Gavin Gasalegno told the outlet that Jelly is fully out of the “honeymoon phase” by the time we see them again, and have shifted into more “long-term thinking” about their relationship.
“You’re jumping right into that [moment with them],” Casalegno said. “There’s a lot of relationships that don’t make it to two years, so it’s a special thing to be able to see what has worked in the relationship, what have they compromised on. I think that’ll be fun for people to see.”
“You get to see the little things that make their relationship unique and separate from Belly and Conrad’s,” Lola Tung added. “It’s easy for them to be with each other. It’ll be cool to see that dynamic because a lot of the time in the show, the relationships can feel difficult because they have a hard time communicating or just circumstances are not great, whether it’s family stuff or life stuff or physical distance. So I think it’s nice to see things in a positive place with them.”
Han previously echoed as much while speaking to EW back in March 2025. “It’s very sweet and there’s so many amazing scenes for Belly and Jeremiah this season, so many,” Han said at the time. “Lola and Gavin have really great chemistry and got into such a good rhythm with each other, because we do have a little bit of a time jump going into season 3, so they needed to have that kind of bond, and it was really seamless. It’ll be joyful for people to witness it.”
“The Jellyfish fans love how sweet and how they are, at their core, best friends,” Tung said. “That relationship is something that’s so special and so unique to them, so it’s exciting to see this season and how their relationship blossoms.”
Even if it all sounds like a dream, this is still a love triangle story. The official synopsis of We’ll Always Have Summer is as follows: “Belly has only ever been in love with two boys, both with the last name Fisher. And after being with Jeremiah for the last two years, she’s almost positive he is her soul mate. Almost. While Conrad has not gotten over the mistake of letting Belly go, Jeremiah has always known that Belly is the girl for him. So when Belly and Jeremiah decide to make things forever, Conrad realizes that it’s now or never — tell Belly he loves her or lose her for good. Belly will have to confront her feelings for Jeremiah and Conrad and face the inevitable: She will have to break one of their hearts.”
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