As risk of losing her job, Sammy Espinoza goes back the only place she's spent more an a year, to find a reclusive musician who may be able to help her.
I received an early copy of this book from Penguin Random House, which is a complete honor if I'm being honest.
Sammy Espinoza writes music and band reviews under a pen name, but after writing a review for her exes band that didn't go as planned, she is walking on thin ice with her boss.
In order to keep her job, she heads back the one place she ever considered a hometown, where rock star Max Ryan is apparently hiding out. If she can convince him to show her his new music early, she might have a chance to win her job back.
There is a lot of background with Sammy, her mom, and her extended family connected with this town as well. Some of it I enjoyed, and most of the time I found her mother really annoying. She ends up meeting with her a grandmother who she thought wanted nothing to do with her, and learning more about her late father and the rest of the family she had missed out on.
This book was pretty in the middle for me. I think as characters Sammy and Max were fun individually, but together they weren't really my favorite. A lot of their relationship started with her lying and I'm not sure if I fully think it would end happily.
As we know at this point, I do enjoy a music boy and definitely enjoyed that all well. I also liked the queer rep in this book as well as the editions of learning about your family heritage when you never felt connected to it.
3/5 Stars
This book is expected to be published July 18, 2023.
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