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A review by sc104906
The Sound of Us by Julie Hammerle
2.0
Kiki is going to the opera camp, where her sister got her start. However, the stakes are higher for Kiki because her sister has graduated from the Opera program, but has no ambition to do anything other than party. Kiki's parents will not pay for college in the opera program and encourage her to go to the college where they work. But, forget that! Kiki is going to work her butt off at camp and leave her geeky obsession with a tv show behind. She will make friends and have a great time. Kiki is trying to get into the class of the greatest vocal teachers in the midwest, but he is kinda a jerk. Kiki's only outlets at the school are forbidden, so she is forced to decide between her future and happiness.
Is this the summer of trading everything away, so that you can be cool? Several books I have read this summer have been about that. The fandoms discussed in this book are either not popular enough for me to know what in the world the author is talking about, or the fandom base is super not interesting and unappealing. I think the book would have been bettered if the weird undercover geek girl was taken out, because it wasn't really developed anyway. Also the frenemy, twitter thing, did not work for me. It was like thrown in the mix but didn't really flow or make a difference. Several things about this book did not work for me.
Is this the summer of trading everything away, so that you can be cool? Several books I have read this summer have been about that. The fandoms discussed in this book are either not popular enough for me to know what in the world the author is talking about, or the fandom base is super not interesting and unappealing. I think the book would have been bettered if the weird undercover geek girl was taken out, because it wasn't really developed anyway. Also the frenemy, twitter thing, did not work for me. It was like thrown in the mix but didn't really flow or make a difference. Several things about this book did not work for me.