2.82 AVERAGE

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sunjaybooks's review

3.0

"We get it, you're weird."
Came for the ace positivity. Stayed because I was already halfway done.
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kuzu's review

3.0

ok i found some of Tom's Banksy-esque artist aesthetic deeply irritating but it was cute. like, these kids are kind of annoying but who isn't kind of annoying as a teen? i'm mad at Tom for using the Holocaust as a rhetorical device and also for referring to gayness as "being attracted only to particular genitals" (which is cissexist) but otherwise... cute

alyce6d980's review

3.0

First things first I need to say a huge thank you to Sourcebooks Fire, for allowing me to review this title on NetGalley, and to NetGalley for the service that they provide.

'Loving the drums hasn't made me love piano less. Just as Sam has stayed in my heart even after I fell for Tom. Some things, it seems, are always the same even after things change.'

Sam and Ramona have a band together. Ramona has been in love with Sam since she met him, but there's no way she could tell him that and risk breaking up the band. Sam has been in love with Ramona too: but she's a confident girl, and if she liked him she definitely would have told him already.
So far, so cliched.
Then Sam and Ramona meet Tom, who becomes the vocalist for their band. The chemistry between the three of them is instantaneous, and their friendship becomes solid very quickly. But then things become difficult, because Ramona falls for Tom, and Tom likes her back.

Read the rest of my review here!
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nicof3c98's review

3.0

I am so happy this book exists.
This this this! I want more like it. The writing didn't personally make my heart go '!!!' but I loved the characters, and the way they played together. (Literally!)
I am terribly happy to have it on my shelf and I hope to see a lot more like it in the future.