Song Of Summer Book Review

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Song of Summer is adorable, delightful and an extremely important read.

The feeling when you started reading a book and you immediately know, you 're going to review it with glowing stars. Because, it was the cutest thing you 'd ever encounter. It’s everything you wanted and more. You can 't get enough of it. You need to finish it in one go.

This is me with Song of Summer. This book is the cutest I ever read and it’s tremendously significant.
Song of Summer is told from the alternating point of view of Robin and Carter. Robin is a music nerd working as a waitress when Carter walked into the diner. He’s so tall and handsome as hell. He’s so good and he does it so well. Sure, he perfectly fits, Robin’s Perfect Man.
But Carter isn’t up
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I wanted to be precise about this part. Especially, because I was conned thinking it’s a Happily Ever After book and I felt extremely cheated. In addition to that, I also explain why I rated it less star below. Be wary of quotes and spoilers.
I don’t how would I phrase this, but I will try.
Robin could not make peace her deaf boyfriend will never hear her music because he chose not to.
“I just want us to sing,” she writes. “With millions. For eternity. Like it says in the song, you know? I want us both to sing.”
She holds the pen out, her eyes begging me to answer. Finally, I take the pen and write back. “What if my version of heaven doesn’t include singing?”
“But it can!” she scrawls, writing so fast I can barely read it. “If Heaven is a place where everything is perfect, then you can hear and we can sing!”
And there it is. Plainly stated. There are no deaf people in her perfect world.
I’m here for unlikable heroines, the one who makes selfish choices. We are human after all, but this particular scene doesn’t settle down with me. Robin was delirious, upon learning Carter wasn’t affront that he undergo to have a cochlear implant before. She was beyond enrage, he didn’t try to use it for her. She didn’t even let him explain his “side of the story”. She made his disability about

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