A review by 21stcenturyvole
Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips

2.0

Realistically probably a 2.5 or so - it’s essentially a competently written Disney Channel Original Movie with a little more rl serious aspects. I think my problem is that it didn’t actually feel like a book about music although that was ostensibly what it’s largely about - musician names are dropped like buzzwords but nothing ever gets delved into deeply. In general it felt very pretty but not deep at all, with pretty much all of the characters being extremely one dimensional, including the protagonists. I had much more interest in some of the side characters. Honestly i think the book maybe didn’t commit hard enough to the Cinderella pastiche - when it decided to delve into more serious territory it lost some of the charm and it wasn’t written at a level equal to its eventual themes.

I am serious about it being a DCOM, though, I’d absolutely watch a movie of this.