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SUMMERtime… and the reading is easy

Cuidad Magazine shares their thoughts on Alyson Noel’s Cruel Summer. In brief:

Noel convincingly captures Colby’s self-transformation as the character comes full circle and realizes that perhaps instead of fighting life and all the things out of her control, she should let go and embrace them. Through the typing fingers of Colby Cavendish, Noel teaches her readers that all the years of suffering through teenage awkwardness are just a phase and, in the end, if a person allows it, she can learn more about herself than she ever thought possible