A review by kaypat23
Summer's Dream by Cathy Cassidy

4.0

This book feels so much darker yet just as important as all of Cathy's other books. In this book, I get to experience firsthand the downward spiral of a scared young girl into an eating disorder. I think it's important for authors to write about such serious issues in order to educate other young girls about these problems and Summer's journey was rendered with realism and tenderness. I sympathized greatly with her desire to achieve her dreams and I felt unbearably sad when her dream took a darker turn (namely, an eating disorder). These characters could have easily been 15 or 16 somehow because I just feel that way when I read this book. It's so odd to imagine that Summer is only 13 and so worried about her weight but I guess that's the sad point, isn't it? Eating disorders can happen to anyone and at any age.

T/w: Eating disorders