Hi Readers,
Today I bring you yet another book review
This book combines two of my favourite things reading (that's a no brainer as it is a book and you tend to read them!) and music.
The book is (drum roll please) Songs About A Girl by Chris Russell
This book is about a girl named Charlie Bloom who never wanted to be 'with the band'. She is happiest being out of the spotlight, behind her camera, being unseen and unnoticed. But when she is asked to take photos backstage for the hottest new boy band called Fire&Lights, she is unable to pass this chance up.
She is then catapulted into a world of paparazzi and backstage bickering, Charlie soon finds herself caught between to gorgeous but damaged, frontman Gabriel West, and his boy-next-door band mate, Olly Samson. The boys rivalry threatens to tear the band apart, Charlie stumbles across a mind blowing secret, hidden in the lyrics of their songs.
I ended up enjoying reading this book it is a YA book and fans of One Direction will enjoy reading this book it's full of insight into what boy bands get up to backstage. Charlie her self often questions herself and her abilities so she is a bit insecure and self doubts herself which pops up in the book a fair few times as teenagers often question themselves and their choices another topic that this book handles well is online bulling and bulling in general, which I thought was good to bring the spotlight onto it and you do feel for Charlie when this happens a couple of other topics it covers well is betrayal, friendships and family dynamics.
This book tackles some hard/difficult subjects but manages to stay light and fun it is a very gripping book and Charlie is a very believable teenage character and the their is a very good cliff hanger at the end which makes you want to read the next book in the trilogy. I'm looking forward to reading the next book Song About Us and continuing the story.
I gave this book
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Thanks for Reading
All the best
Stacey
