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A review by brooke_review
Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson
5.0
Sometimes I just need a book that I am reading solely for the entertainment factor. When I am not looking to ponder life’s bigger questions and issues, I usually reach for a lighthearted YA novel. Morgan Matson’s new book Take Me Home Tonight is a 24 hour story, which is one of my favorite literary themes, so I was pumped to pick up this novel about two best friends who spend an epic night alone in New York City.
Kat and Stevie are drama kids in their high school’s renowned theater program. When their theater director decides to postpone announcing the cast for their school’s production of King Lear, Kat is thrown for a loop - she has been on pins and needles waiting to see if she will be cast as Cordelia. Stevie was supposed to be headed to New York City tonight to celebrate her birthday with her dad, but when he cancels on her, the girls decide to cast their worries aside and make a night of it in the Big Apple. Alone. Without phones. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out everything, as you’ll soon discover when you read this delightful novel complete with every catastrophe teenagers alone in the most populous city in the USA might face! I have never had a book give me so much anxiety, yet entertain me at the same time. Not only is Matson a master at writing a developed plot, she is also fantastic at creating scenes fraught with tension and drama. There were several times in this novel that I read with bated breath, feeling actual emotions for the characters. If a YA novel can make me feel this much, it has to be good!
Admittedly, there are many scenarios in this book where the reader has to suspend disbelief and just go with the flow. As I previously mentioned, I read this novel solely for entertainment, so I didn’t mind looking past the fact that many situations in this story were implausible, and that these girls definitely had luck on their side throughout their hijinks in the city. If you need your reads to be 100% realistic, then this novel may not be for you, but if you enjoy books that are simply a lot of fun, then pick up Take Me Home Tonight!
Recommended to fans of Maurene Goo’s Somewhere Only We Know, which both take place over 24 hours in a bustling city.
Kat and Stevie are drama kids in their high school’s renowned theater program. When their theater director decides to postpone announcing the cast for their school’s production of King Lear, Kat is thrown for a loop - she has been on pins and needles waiting to see if she will be cast as Cordelia. Stevie was supposed to be headed to New York City tonight to celebrate her birthday with her dad, but when he cancels on her, the girls decide to cast their worries aside and make a night of it in the Big Apple. Alone. Without phones. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out everything, as you’ll soon discover when you read this delightful novel complete with every catastrophe teenagers alone in the most populous city in the USA might face! I have never had a book give me so much anxiety, yet entertain me at the same time. Not only is Matson a master at writing a developed plot, she is also fantastic at creating scenes fraught with tension and drama. There were several times in this novel that I read with bated breath, feeling actual emotions for the characters. If a YA novel can make me feel this much, it has to be good!
Admittedly, there are many scenarios in this book where the reader has to suspend disbelief and just go with the flow. As I previously mentioned, I read this novel solely for entertainment, so I didn’t mind looking past the fact that many situations in this story were implausible, and that these girls definitely had luck on their side throughout their hijinks in the city. If you need your reads to be 100% realistic, then this novel may not be for you, but if you enjoy books that are simply a lot of fun, then pick up Take Me Home Tonight!
Recommended to fans of Maurene Goo’s Somewhere Only We Know, which both take place over 24 hours in a bustling city.