📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 When You Get the Chance
AUTHOR: Emma Lord @dilemmalord
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: January 4, 2022
The Review 📚 When You Get the Chance
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I have loved every Emma Lord book I have ever read. I was very happy to have the opportunity to listen to this audiobook on @netgalley (and thanks also to @wednesdaybooks )
💜 What I liked:
- This book is FULL of theater references that make my heart so happy. Emma Lord’s writing style is whimsical and so cohesive that you can’t help but fall in love with the characters. And Millie is one character you need more of. She has a love/hate relationship with Oliver, but through the book, their chemistry is undeniable. Millie’s search for her birth mom as well as her journey of self discovery is also a topic of exploration.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I would have loved even more of Millie interacting with her friends. Or even a sequel? What will she do next? I am here for that ride.
🚦 My face at the end: 🥰
💬 The Narrator:
- I really appreciated the way the narrator, Jesse Vilinsky, was so clear in this book. A narrator’s style could make or break a book and I am so glad this one was so effective.
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Musical theater
- 2. Supportive community
- 3. Mom search
- 4. Little women
- 5. Milkshakes
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Millie wants to be a theater star, but she also wants to find her mom. She only has a summer to find herself.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 When You Get the Chance
Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price’s dream to become a Broadway star. Not her lovable but super-introverted dad, who after raising Millie alone, doesn’t want to watch her leave home to pursue her dream. Not her pesky and ongoing drama club rival, Oliver, who is the very definition of Simmering Romantic Tension. And not the “Millie Moods,” the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, always at maddeningly inconvenient times. Millie needs an ally. And when a left-open browser brings Millie to her dad’s embarrassingly moody LiveJournal from 2003, Millie knows just what to do. She’s going to find her mom.
There’s Steph, a still-aspiring stage actress and receptionist at a talent agency. There’s Farrah, ethereal dance teacher who clearly doesn’t have the two left feet Millie has. And Beth, the chipper and sweet stage enthusiast with an equally exuberant fifteen-year-old daughter (A possible sister?! This is getting out of hand). But how can you find a new part of your life and expect it to fit into your old one, without leaving any marks? And why is it that when you go looking for the past, it somehow keeps bringing you back to what you’ve had all along?