FICTION

Summer by Summer

by Heather BURCH
288p. ebook available. Blink. 2015. Tr $15.99. ISBN 9780310729631.
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Gr 7–10—A fairly typical summer romance. Girl (Summer) goes to Belize for the summer as a nanny, clashes with her charge's popular teen brother (Bray), things go awry, and the two end up shipwrecked. What happens next is predictable, which doesn't necessarily discount this from being a good beach read. Where this book goes astray, unfortunately, is in the unnecessary physical transformation of Summer. At the start of the book, she fits a certain conservative modest teen girl stereotype—long floral dresses, mousy brown hair. Within a few chapters she's been given a complete makeover—highlighted hair, cutoffs, tank tops. Among the intended audience, the message that an instant makeover will get the guy might not float so well. Despite being full of YA tropes, it is a readable novel.
VERDICT Purchase where Christian romance flies off the shelves.
Reviewed by Sarah Jones, Clinton-Macomb Public Library, MI , Jun 01, 2015

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