Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com

What could be more exciting than a summer internship at the coolest magazine? Chrissy Gibbons has landed a prized position as a summer intern at Savvy magazine. However, the summer doesn't turn out to be the one she expected.

Chrissy expects to be writing exciting articles and wowing the editors at Savvy. In reality, she is stuffing envelopes and fielding the letters that Adele should be handling. Adele spends her day planning her wedding and dealing with one mishap after another. Chrissy handles the mundane jobs but wants more out of her experience.

The editor of the magazine announces a new column. One of the summer interns will be selected to write a monthly column, Savvy Girl. Chrissy wants the prized column more than anything.

As the summer unfolds, Chrissy's opportunity to write a stunning column gets sidetracked by far more glamorous opportunities. Jessica, the fashion editor, has taken a shine to Chrissy and keeps inviting her along to exciting parties and fashion events. Soon, Chrissy is forgetting plans she's made with her best friend, and coming home drunk.

When a mutual friend makes her realize that her best friend is pretty upset with her home life, Chrissy realizes that she's changed, and not for the better. The realization helps her write the Savvy Girl column she's been neglecting and helps her become the person she knows she should be.

Lynn Messina is best known for her Red Dress Ink adult romance novels; SAVVY GIRL is her first book for young adults. She's captured the uncertainty of a young adult beautifully. Chrissy is desperate to fit in at her high fashion intern job, but needs to realize that she's still a teenager and has a lot more to learn about life. ( )

Savvy was light, fun and fast. This was a feel good novel that was more about discovering yourself than working at a magazine.With that said, there were a few things that did bother me. Jessica, the fashion editor, takes Chrissy under her wing, because she reminds her of her sister, which was very sweet and endearing. Jessica was also a model and when Chrissy asked her why she quit to become a fashion editor, she tells her this very touching story of how her sister was turning into someone else, struggling with her weight, smoking, etc. because she wanted to be like Jessica. Awww, what a great big sister. So, why would she take underage Chrissy to these lavish parties and let her get drunk and then not even make sure she gets home okay? Didn’t really fit the character profile I got from the model turned fashion editor to save her sister insight??!Then two words. Michael Davies. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me! Come on, how many times does Chrissy have to run into this guy ogling model’s boobies before she realizes he is a jerk! I know having a crush and over looking flaws is completely normal behavior, but come on, seriously.I also would have liked to gotten to know Chrissy’s friend Lily and the obvious romantic choice Graham, better. They just sort of skirted the outside of the storyline and didn’t really come into play until the end.However, I did enjoy Messina’s writing style and think that the lesson portrayed in the novel is important. I'm looking forward to reading more of her YA novels in the future. Sometimes light, fun and fast is just what I'm looking for! ( )

Chrissy has landed her dream job, a summer internship at Savvy magazine. But not only is she helping at the magazine, she has a chance to win the honor of writing her own column, Savvy Girl. Chrissy then befriends the fashion editor of the magazine and that's when things start to get tricky. She starts going to a lot of parties, and meets some pretty big name stars. And there is a guy she's had her eye on who works at another magazine in the same building. With everything else going on the article she has to write to win the Savvy Girl contest seemed to slip her mind. And what happens when going to parties means she has to constantly put her friendships on hold?

This book was pretty good. It seemed to me like a nice beach read, even though it's already winter. I loved how the characters were written, they seemed like real people to me. I also like the storyline, while ditching friends for parties then finding out what you were missing has been done before it seemed like this story was more. Now, with that being said i did think this story was a little cliched, but well written and an enjoyable read. ( )

This type of YA is usually a fun, fun read.

Chrissy is 17 and managed to snag an internship at Savvy magazine - she also gets the opportunity of submitting an essay that will give her the chance of becoming a Savvy columnist for a year.

The premise sounds great! I was all ready to loooooveee this book. Except that there is so much wrong with the storyline that I don't really know where to start.

First off, Chrissy was chosen among her other high school mates for this internship - presumably because she was bright and interested in developing her future skills (not to mention a great internship mark up on her cv) - yet, the author insists of portraying Chrissy as immature, clueless and completely self-absorbed (yes, I know I have just basically described most teenagers - but I was under the impression that Chrissy was a tad above all of this considering the prestigious internship she was handed). I mean, this girl is completely clueless...instead of actually learning and absorbing all that she can from her intership, she spends her days daydreaming about the cad (yes, you knew there had to be one) and basically flittering away a beautiful opportunity to learn from some of the "best" in the fashion world.

Also, the whole supermodel Jessica inviting lowly intern Chrissy to all these high-brow functions (hey Jessica did you know that Chrissy is not even supposed to be drinking since she is 17?????)is totally incredible and I did not buy it for a minute.

I was also pretty horrified by the fact that this 17 year old walks around New York City at 2:00 a.m. - drunk as a skunk with her shoes in her hands - looking for the subway platform - this was extremely creepy to me.

Finally, for those hoping to get a glimpse of what it is like to work at a fashion magazine - don't buy this book. There is a minimal amount of work being done by anyone at this fashion magazine AND the author barely mentions it at all. It is obvious that the "magazine" setting is just a set up for the storyline and is totally irrelevant to the whole thing.
Also, I cringe at all the perfect opportunities Chrissy has (the Savvy Girl column for example) and insists on blowing off - I think Chrissy needs to go back to high school for a couple of years and GROW UP!!! or stop trying to play with the grown ups and stick with being a teenager! I don't care which you choose - just pick up and stop being so clueless!

As you can read, I had many, many issues with this ( )