The Summer of Cotton Candy (Sweet Seasons #1)

Title: The Summer of Cotton Candy (Sweet Seasons #1)
Author: Debbie Viguié
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
Rating: 2 Stars

Most people think The Zone is an amusement park, but Candy Thompson knows it's really a slave labor camp. What else would you call a summer job that requires a sixteen-year-old girl to set aside her whole social life for the privilege of standing out in the hot sun selling cotton candy? Still, there are perks---particularly the mysterious hunk in the Lone Ranger costume. Behind that mask are the most amazing eyes Candy has ever seen. Who is that masked man? But someone else is just as interested. And romantic competition isn't the only problem. Besides being hard work, The Zone is eating up major time. How is Candy supposed to stay involved in church? Worse yet, will she lose her best friend, Tamara, who resents how Candy's job limits their time together? This is NOT the summer Candy hoped for! But as she is about to discover, the summer of cotton candy will be the greatest summer of her life.-GoodReads

First of all, Debbie Viguié should design a theme park, I'd go to it in a heartbeat. Now that we've got that out of the way let's start the review.

I wasn't a big fan of this book, The writing wasn't great and I thought the characters were either flat or underdeveloped. That said, it was still a short, cute, fun book. I loved the park at night and the scavenger hunt(I thought it was going to be lame) at the end. I won't tell you who won the hunt though, it's a spoiler, SHHHHH!

I didn't like that Candice felt the need to judge Lone Ranger Dude's life. Sure, he doesn't know what to do with his life and since he's at a place that he loves working he doesn't really care, there's nothing wrong with that. I say if you like your job you are ahead of 75% of the world.

I'd say that this series is for a younger reading audience. Maybe I would have like this when I younger, I've read reviews by people who LOVE this book, it just wasn't for me.