This is an engaging young adult romance that looks at following your dreams, overcoming adversity and making right decisions. I’m an old adult and a long way from being the book’s target audience but I still enjoy the occasional YA story that sends me lamenting my long departed youth and remembering……. how it all feels. And that is a testament to this author who writes so convincingly that it stirred my memory.
Nikki is from an impoverished background, close to her half sister but struggling to maintain a relationship with her mother. She is a talented singer and musician and has dreams of a career in California. She has a best friend Malachi (Mal) who is such a lovely character and before she leaves for California he persuades her to spend a week with him as he attempts to offer her reasons why she should stay. And don’t be forgetting that this is a romance. 😉
There are many ups and downs, crises and confrontations but for all that it is ultimately a feel good book and quite uplifting. It’s well written with a well paced narrative for its intended audience and the characters are well defined and believable.
My thanks to Readers First for my copy.
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