by Suzanne Supplee
This book really tugs at my heart. The way Retta chases her dreams of becoming a singer.. it's so motivating and inspiring, what i liked was that the book shows that there was difficulty and hardships on chasing our dreams. This made the story more realistic. And the friends she made..;(Overall I ga...
3.5This is one of those novels that is pleasant, undemanding, funny, enjoyable but still required a little something else to make it memorable. Perhaps it suffers from that unnamed condition that most "happy" realistic fiction books suffer from. If it's a real life setting and doesn't have fast-pace...
I've had a string of bad luck with books lately. I intensely disliked the last two I read (Jane by April Lindner and Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly) and the three I read before that just didn't do it for me (Hush by Eishes Chayil, Matched by Ally Condie, and Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott). So i...