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Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden

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nemoslittlelibrary's review

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challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Happy publication day to Tobias Madden! This has been a highly anticipated release, and I just firstly just want to thank NetGalley, Page Street Publishing and Madden for an earc of this book💖 

Noah Mitchell only has one friend, albeit strictly online, the funny and wonderful MagePants69. However, this has not stopped Noah falling absolutely head over heels for him. Noah breaks out of his own comfort zone in an attempt to meet MagePants69 in real life and mission get a boyfriend is underway. 

This book has so many wonderful subplots that add to the overall plot equally and bring it all together: we have Spire of Dusk the RPG that Noah plays with his online love, the theatre that he joins to meet MagePants69, divided family tension and the underlying mystery of what the hell happened in Year 9 to make him lose all of his friends and be scared of ever telling the truth?! 

Things I LOVED about the book:
✨This story portrays awkward teen years to a T. The nerdy awkward moments, the second guessing every single decision you ever make, the anxiety, the first time love - everything just made my heart melt and reminded me how big of a deal everything is when you’re that age.
✨ The Spire of Dusk world-building. Madden really put his all into describing the game and it was amazing to have this little bit of a fantasy world written into what otherwise is a contemporary YA novel. 
✨ Noah’s older sister Charly and demi-god Alex are the most supportive people I have ever come across in a book and every interaction between Noah and them two had me grinning ear to ear. 
✨ Showing skinny shaming is STILL body shaming so yeah don’t do that please x
✨ Eli and Noah’s relationship forming, however the lying trope did always tainted it for me and broke my heart a little. 

I do want to disclaim the lying is throughout the entire book, and not just from our MMC Noah, so if that’s a trope you can’t get behind I would say this isn’t for you. The thing that made this lose a star for me was I just don’t think Noah’s reason was a big enough justification for his actions, but then I have to think of how young he is and how impressionable he was at the time of said action (but I won’t say anymore…go read it and find out what I mean😉) 

The whole book is dramatic, I mean we’re combining 17 year olds and theatre…but weren’t we all a little bit like that when we were 17? I laughed, cringed, sighed, smiled and wanted the world to swallow me up along with Noah the entire journey. What a brilliant first read for the new year👏🏼
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