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As If on Cue
by Marisa Kanter
I really enjoyed this book. Natalie Jacobsen is a junior in high school and her friends unite to save the arts when budget cuts threaten to end most extra curricular activities in the arts, except the band which is advised by her father. Natalie and her best friend Henry wrote a play over the summer called Melted- the opposite of Frozen about the climate crisis as an opposite of Frozen. Except will the school fund the play? Natalie teams up w her friends and rival Reid Callahan, who is her father's clarinet protégé and son of her parents best friends, sister to Hannah, Natalie's younger sister Delia's best friend. There's chemistry between Reid and Natalie. Their prank war gets in the way majorly and propels the play into a musical.
Trigger warning for emotional dad - daughter communication issues, microaggressions for Jewish people of Anti Semitism. Excellent representation for Jewish, LGBTQ, etc. There is something Natalie does with about 20% of the book left that had me mad and difficult to defend. Trying to remember she is 17 years old and teens react with emotion and without logic, still was a pivotal point where it was difficult to sympathize with her. Cute PG13 romance though.
45/☆
Trigger warning for emotional dad - daughter communication issues, microaggressions for Jewish people of Anti Semitism. Excellent representation for Jewish, LGBTQ, etc. There is something Natalie does with about 20% of the book left that had me mad and difficult to defend. Trying to remember she is 17 years old and teens react with emotion and without logic, still was a pivotal point where it was difficult to sympathize with her. Cute PG13 romance though.
45/☆