Beauty Returns - Tapa dura

"McNicoll writes with an understanding of the teen persona, switching with ease from the female to the male perspective. Her portrayal of the two main characters and the problems they face is realistic without being maudlin. Of the three books in the trilogy, this one focuses least on the dog-trainer relationship, and so those readers looking for a warm "dog story" will not find it here. Instead, McNicoll focuses on the teens' relationship and the trials and tribulations of growing up. A somewhat abrupt, yet satisfying and dramatic, conclusion to a very successful trilogy.
Recommended."
-- "CM Magazine"

"There are many important issues that McNicoll touches on in this novel: teen-age pregnancy, academic honesty, dealing with loss, coping with blindness, family relationships, abuse. . . All of the details and events intertwine in a way that is believable. . . It is one complication after another that leads to a surprisingly moving conclusion.
"Rated: Good to Excellent!"
-- "Resource Links"

McNicoll knows exactly how to get inside the modern teen psyche and move the story along briskly as the action rises from the trivialities of fashion and matters of the heart to the larger themes of life and death.
-- "CITY Parent," January 2007
"McNicoll writes with an understanding of the teen persona, switching with ease from the female to the male perspective. Her portrayal of the two main characters and the problems they face is realistic without being maudlin. Of the three books in the trilogy, this one focuses least on the dog-trainer relationship, and so those readers looking for a warm "dog story" will not find it here. Instead, McNicoll focuses on the teens' relationship and the trials and tribulations of growing up. A somewhat abrupt, yet satisfying and dramatic, conclusion to a very successful trilogy.
Recommended."
-- "CM Magazine"

"There are many important issues that McNicoll touches on in this novel: teen-age pregnancy, academic honesty, dealing with loss, coping with blindness, family relationships, abuse. . . All of the details and events intertwine in a way that is believable. . . It is one complication after another that leads to a surprisingly moving conclusion.
"Rated: Good to Excellent! "
-- "Resource Links"

McNicoll knows exactly how to get inside the modern teen psyche and move the story along briskly as the action rises from the trivialities of fashion and matters of the heart to the larger themes of life and death.
-- "CITY Parent," January 2007
"McNicoll writes with an understanding of the teen persona, switching with ease from the female to the male perspective. Her portrayal of the two main characters and the problems they face is realistic without being maudlin. Of the three books in the trilogy, this one focuses least on the dog-trainer relationship, and so those readers looking for a warm "dog story" will not find it here. Instead, McNicoll focuses on the teens' relationship and the trials and tribulations of growing up. A somewhat abrupt, yet satisfying and dramatic, conclusion to a very successful trilogy.
Recommended."
-- CM Magazine

"There are many important issues that McNicoll touches on in this novel: teen-age pregnancy, academic honesty, dealing with loss, coping with blindness, family relationships, abuse. . . All of the details and events intertwine in a way that is believable. . . It is one complication after another that leads to a surprisingly moving conclusion.
"Rated: Good to Excellent! "
-- Resource Links

McNicoll knows exactly how to get inside the modern teen psyche and move the story along briskly as the action rises from the trivialities of fashion and matters of the heart to the larger themes of life and death.
-- CITY Parent, January 2007

Guide dog, Beauty Two, brings together her owner Kyle and Liz, who have many reasons to stay away from each other but find their attraction to each other irresistible, in the final installment of the Beauty trilogy.