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Foolish Hearts
by Emma Mills
When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris, the it-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with the goofiest, cutest boy Claudia has ever known, Iris and Claudia are in for an eye-opening senior year.
I’m going to change my rating from 4 stars to 5. When I first started this book, I was immediately hooked. I’ve had this book on my shelf for a while but never really realized what a gem it was. Claudia is your average high school student who has the privilege of attending a fancy private school because her father works there. She doesn’t really fit in but she doesn’t not fit in either, if that makes sense. It’s almost as though she makes herself not fit in because she thinks she doesn’t belong. I don’t think the description above really does the story justice. Claudia and Iris are forced to work as partners on a project and when they blow it because of their hostility towards each other, they are both assigned to the school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to make up the project. The play is put on with the neighboring boy’s private school which is where Claudia meets Gideon. Gideon is popular, super cute but also super dorky in his own way. Claudia has been hurt before so she more or less ignores him and his obvious interest in her. Throughout the story, Claudia, Iris, Gideon, and the rest of the play’s cast and crew are thrown together in various situations so that Claudia cannot ignore Gideon and grows to actually like Iris as a friend.
There is also a subplot to the story which I didn’t love and is why my original rating was 4 stars. My overall love of the story overshadows my dislike of this portion. Claudia has a brother and a sister. Her sister lives in another city with her husband. Claudia, her brother, her sister and her husband, as well as Claudia’s best friend Zoe all play this video game. It’s sort of how they stay connected as a family. Zoe goes to the public school in their town but comes over every day to spend time with Claudia. She is really Claudia’s only friend. Eventually it comes out that Zoe isn’t just Claudia’s best friend, she’s secretly been dating Claudia’s brother Alex. When she finds out, Claudia pretty much flips out and it causes a rift between them. I didn’t like this part of the story because it just doesn’t really add up to me. I don’t have siblings but I have close friends who have siblings and due to my closeness with their family, I’ve never seen their siblings as anything less than semi-siblings of my own. I could never imagine dating any of them. Ultimately it all works out but I just wasn’t that interested in this part of the story.
Despite my lack of interest in part of the story, I believe others will love the story as a whole just as I do. I think this was a cute, high school story with a happy ending. My take away from this story is: Why on earth did I wait so long to read it?! I loved it.
Emma Mills is the author of First & Then, This Adventure Ends, Foolish Hearts, Famous in a Small Town, and Lucky Caller. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and has recently completed a PhD in cell biology.
Here's a link to my blog: https://ashleesbookishadventures.tumblr.com/post/619120708477419520/foolish-hearts-by-emma-mills
I’m going to change my rating from 4 stars to 5. When I first started this book, I was immediately hooked. I’ve had this book on my shelf for a while but never really realized what a gem it was. Claudia is your average high school student who has the privilege of attending a fancy private school because her father works there. She doesn’t really fit in but she doesn’t not fit in either, if that makes sense. It’s almost as though she makes herself not fit in because she thinks she doesn’t belong. I don’t think the description above really does the story justice. Claudia and Iris are forced to work as partners on a project and when they blow it because of their hostility towards each other, they are both assigned to the school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to make up the project. The play is put on with the neighboring boy’s private school which is where Claudia meets Gideon. Gideon is popular, super cute but also super dorky in his own way. Claudia has been hurt before so she more or less ignores him and his obvious interest in her. Throughout the story, Claudia, Iris, Gideon, and the rest of the play’s cast and crew are thrown together in various situations so that Claudia cannot ignore Gideon and grows to actually like Iris as a friend.
There is also a subplot to the story which I didn’t love and is why my original rating was 4 stars. My overall love of the story overshadows my dislike of this portion. Claudia has a brother and a sister. Her sister lives in another city with her husband. Claudia, her brother, her sister and her husband, as well as Claudia’s best friend Zoe all play this video game. It’s sort of how they stay connected as a family. Zoe goes to the public school in their town but comes over every day to spend time with Claudia. She is really Claudia’s only friend. Eventually it comes out that Zoe isn’t just Claudia’s best friend, she’s secretly been dating Claudia’s brother Alex. When she finds out, Claudia pretty much flips out and it causes a rift between them. I didn’t like this part of the story because it just doesn’t really add up to me. I don’t have siblings but I have close friends who have siblings and due to my closeness with their family, I’ve never seen their siblings as anything less than semi-siblings of my own. I could never imagine dating any of them. Ultimately it all works out but I just wasn’t that interested in this part of the story.
Despite my lack of interest in part of the story, I believe others will love the story as a whole just as I do. I think this was a cute, high school story with a happy ending. My take away from this story is: Why on earth did I wait so long to read it?! I loved it.
Emma Mills is the author of First & Then, This Adventure Ends, Foolish Hearts, Famous in a Small Town, and Lucky Caller. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and has recently completed a PhD in cell biology.
Here's a link to my blog: https://ashleesbookishadventures.tumblr.com/post/619120708477419520/foolish-hearts-by-emma-mills