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Rise to the Sun
by Leah Johnson
Author: Leah Johnson
Genre: Contemporary
Age Range: Young Adult
Format: Paperback
Published: 6th July 2021
Pages: 322
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Goodreads Synopsis
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival.
Olivia is an expert at falling in love . . . and at being dumped. But after the fallout from her last breakup has left her an outcast at school and at home, she’s determined to turn over a new leaf. A crush-free weekend at Farmland Music and Arts Festival with her best friend is just what she needs to get her mind off the senior year that awaits her.
Toni is one week away from starting college, and it’s the last place she wants to be. Unsure about who she wants to become and still reeling in the wake of the loss of her musician-turned-roadie father, she’s heading back to the music festival that changed his life in hopes that following in his footsteps will help her find her own way forward.
When the two arrive at Farmland, the last thing they expect is to realize that they’ll need to join forces in order to get what they’re searching for out of the weekend. As they work together, the festival becomes so much more complicated than they bargained for, and Olivia and Toni will find that they need each other, and music, more than they ever could have imagined.
Packed with irresistible romance and irrepressible heart, bestselling author Leah Johnson delivers a stunning and cinematic story about grief, love, and the remarkable power of music to heal and connect us all.
Review
Trigger Warnings: References to parental loss, panic attacks, gun violence and non-consensual image sharing (listed at beginning of the book)
This review may contain spoilers.
I’ve been wanting to read this one for a while and I picked it up in February and I really enjoyed it. I just wanted to note that trigger warnings are listed at the beginning of this novel, which I really appreciated, and I hope to see more novels doing this in the future. This novel takes place over the course of a weekend at a musical festival, I don’t think I’ve ever read a book set at a music festival before, so I really enjoyed this setting. My favourite aspect of this book was definitely the atmosphere, Leah Johnson’s writing captures the atmosphere of the music festival so well. Another aspect of this novel that I enjoyed was the plot, I found it to be really engrossing and I found it hard to put down. I also really loved the relationship that developed between Olivia and Toni, they're so cute.
Overall, this was an atmospheric YA Contemporary novel that had an engaging plot that made it hard to put down. I can’t wait to read whatever Leah Johnson writes next.
Genre: Contemporary
Age Range: Young Adult
Format: Paperback
Published: 6th July 2021
Pages: 322
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Goodreads Synopsis
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival.
Olivia is an expert at falling in love . . . and at being dumped. But after the fallout from her last breakup has left her an outcast at school and at home, she’s determined to turn over a new leaf. A crush-free weekend at Farmland Music and Arts Festival with her best friend is just what she needs to get her mind off the senior year that awaits her.
Toni is one week away from starting college, and it’s the last place she wants to be. Unsure about who she wants to become and still reeling in the wake of the loss of her musician-turned-roadie father, she’s heading back to the music festival that changed his life in hopes that following in his footsteps will help her find her own way forward.
When the two arrive at Farmland, the last thing they expect is to realize that they’ll need to join forces in order to get what they’re searching for out of the weekend. As they work together, the festival becomes so much more complicated than they bargained for, and Olivia and Toni will find that they need each other, and music, more than they ever could have imagined.
Packed with irresistible romance and irrepressible heart, bestselling author Leah Johnson delivers a stunning and cinematic story about grief, love, and the remarkable power of music to heal and connect us all.
Review
Trigger Warnings: References to parental loss, panic attacks, gun violence and non-consensual image sharing (listed at beginning of the book)
This review may contain spoilers.
I’ve been wanting to read this one for a while and I picked it up in February and I really enjoyed it. I just wanted to note that trigger warnings are listed at the beginning of this novel, which I really appreciated, and I hope to see more novels doing this in the future. This novel takes place over the course of a weekend at a musical festival, I don’t think I’ve ever read a book set at a music festival before, so I really enjoyed this setting. My favourite aspect of this book was definitely the atmosphere, Leah Johnson’s writing captures the atmosphere of the music festival so well. Another aspect of this novel that I enjoyed was the plot, I found it to be really engrossing and I found it hard to put down. I also really loved the relationship that developed between Olivia and Toni, they're so cute.
Overall, this was an atmospheric YA Contemporary novel that had an engaging plot that made it hard to put down. I can’t wait to read whatever Leah Johnson writes next.