A review by dracobatreads
My Fair Brady by Brian D. Kennedy

5.0

As someone who grew up around theatre because of my family this was such a joy to read. It was informative in the sense of you know nothing about performing or how to put in a show it went into a lot of detail which was actually very interesting! But, most of all I absolutely loved how even tho the characters were flawed and made lots of mistakes, they learned from them, grew and evolved and that’s just how teenagers are.

I love how queer this book was. The diversity and representation was really great (gay, trans, bi/pan etc). I loved seeing the journey Wade and Brady went on. From learning to change as people, performers, learning to get out their comfort zones. I also liked how realistic it was in the sense that even though you have this image of what you want to do with your future it may not always go as planned and that’s okay. It may hurt, but those feelings won’t last forever.

I laughed a lot and read this book in one day, I did not want it to end. This was one of my most anticipated releases and it definitely lived up to everything I thought it would be, and then some. I relate to Brady a lot in the sense that it’s okay to be quiet, it’s not a bad thing. I do think maybe if Brady was possibly a junior and not a sophomore it would’ve been better, but overall I absolutely loved this book and will be reading it again.

Thank you to Harpercollins and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

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