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A review by melbsreads
Cruel Summer by Alyson Noël
3.0
Trigger warnings: divorcing parents, death.
This was...fine? But also, I strongly suspect, quite forgettable. So essentially, it's told in diary entries, emails and letters from a teenage girl sent from California to Greece to stay with her aunt while her parents sort out their messy divorce.
The setting shines in some ways, but also Colby spends most of her time in the local internet cafe because her aunt doesn't have a computer at home. The text speak that's used in Colby's emails to some of her friends is INDESCRIBABLY cringeworthy and I definitely struggled my way through some of her "blog posts" where she's essentially just describing a bunch of images that are supposedly in the post.
But it was a quick easy read so I guess there's that.
This was...fine? But also, I strongly suspect, quite forgettable. So essentially, it's told in diary entries, emails and letters from a teenage girl sent from California to Greece to stay with her aunt while her parents sort out their messy divorce.
The setting shines in some ways, but also Colby spends most of her time in the local internet cafe because her aunt doesn't have a computer at home. The text speak that's used in Colby's emails to some of her friends is INDESCRIBABLY cringeworthy and I definitely struggled my way through some of her "blog posts" where she's essentially just describing a bunch of images that are supposedly in the post.
But it was a quick easy read so I guess there's that.