Review: sweet and unexpected
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
This is a YA book that is quite different from other YA books I have read. Isabelle is a disgruntled teenager whose father used up her college fund to keep his business afloat and mother left when she was a child. She starts attending community college in a state of disbelief and despair. It's where she meets Evan, the TA for one of her classes that she did not really want to take. What makes this book different is the way music, and poetry is woven into the story to describe how Isabelle's perceptions of the community college experience change over time, and that Evan is not the perfect hero who always lands on his feet but also has real world problems that are not easily solved.