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A review by alexfromistemor
Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
4.0
Cute little book all about expectations and self-confidence. Melly spends so much of her time ricocheting around in her head, fighting with her self-confidence issues (I can relate), and eventually learning to speak up for herself. It has to be so hard to be at a camp that's so much about being seen when you're an introvert, even when you're 'just the rhythm section'.
Speaking of the camp, Rockaway sounds soo cool! I did have flashes of memories to my own camp experiences as a kid. I'm not a musician in any sense of the word, but I so wanted to go to this camp.
Melly's friendship with Olivia feels natural and honest, both when they are in and out of sync with one another. They argue, Melly worries about their friendship, but in the end, they are so close to one another. When Melly tells Olivia about Adeline, and she's just so completely supportive...ahh, it's wonderful.
And Adeline, wonderful, supportive, positive-against-almost-all-odds Adeline. She's such a wonderful, refreshing character who connects with Melly immediately, and yet is never pushy. The two girls' feelings for one another are genuine and very well handled, and it's nice to see both a character for whom this is all new and she's figuring herself out, and one for whom knows exactly who she is and where her preferences lay.
Speaking of the camp, Rockaway sounds soo cool! I did have flashes of memories to my own camp experiences as a kid. I'm not a musician in any sense of the word, but I so wanted to go to this camp.
Melly's friendship with Olivia feels natural and honest, both when they are in and out of sync with one another. They argue, Melly worries about their friendship, but in the end, they are so close to one another. When Melly tells Olivia about Adeline, and she's just so completely supportive...ahh, it's wonderful.
And Adeline, wonderful, supportive, positive-against-almost-all-odds Adeline. She's such a wonderful, refreshing character who connects with Melly immediately, and yet is never pushy. The two girls' feelings for one another are genuine and very well handled, and it's nice to see both a character for whom this is all new and she's figuring herself out, and one for whom knows exactly who she is and where her preferences lay.