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shelbanuadh 's review for:
Invitation to the Blues
by Roan Parrish
I was never really interested in Ginger or her story, so I actually opted to skip Small Change and dive into this one. Seeing as this is told strictly from Jude's POV and Small Change from Ginger's, as opposed to Christopher's, I figured there wouldn't be too much I was missing out on.
The only thing that I would say you miss out on from not reading Small Change is a better physical description of Faron and Jude, which at the halfway mark, I was still having a bit of difficulty in visualizing (seeing as I can't actually visualize things and just end up googling vague descriptions to find a reasonable facsimile)... especially since the model on the cover doesn't match Jude's description at all other than by also being a ginger. So, halfway through, I jumped over to my copy of Small Change and found the parts when Ginger first meets Faron and Jude, and those descriptions gave me a better idea, especially when it came for Faron. So, if you are like me and not keen on Ginger, I think you'd be fine to skip it.
So, yeah, my only complaints about this book is the slightly less descriptive appearance of the MCs than the book in which they are just side characters, and that the guy on the cover doesn't match Jude's description - as if that hair could be braided and where are the freckles that Faron so loves?!!! - which is why I prefer when authors don't have models on their covers. But, I think those are very minor issues to have with a book.
The only thing that I would say you miss out on from not reading Small Change is a better physical description of Faron and Jude, which at the halfway mark, I was still having a bit of difficulty in visualizing (seeing as I can't actually visualize things and just end up googling vague descriptions to find a reasonable facsimile)... especially since the model on the cover doesn't match Jude's description at all other than by also being a ginger. So, halfway through, I jumped over to my copy of Small Change and found the parts when Ginger first meets Faron and Jude, and those descriptions gave me a better idea, especially when it came for Faron. So, if you are like me and not keen on Ginger, I think you'd be fine to skip it.
So, yeah, my only complaints about this book is the slightly less descriptive appearance of the MCs than the book in which they are just side characters, and that the guy on the cover doesn't match Jude's description - as if that hair could be braided and where are the freckles that Faron so loves?!!! - which is why I prefer when authors don't have models on their covers. But, I think those are very minor issues to have with a book.