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A review by idoltina
Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris
5.0
Queer girls, treasure hunts, and country music? Yeah, this book owns my whole disaster bisexual, country music loving heart.
Voris embodies the heart of country music in this book. At its core, country music is about storytelling, about subverting expectations, about being willing to dream bigger, about longing for home, about losing yourself deeply in every messy, wonderful feeling, about loving and leaving and learning to live with what you've lost. Voris is so smart in the way she crafts this story: she uses dual POVs as well as "flashbacks" to lead us heart-first into character arcs and love stories and a quest for treasure in more ways than one. The result is a page-turner I couldn't put down and finished in a day after sobbing my little heart out multiple times.
As a queer woman, it was hard not to feel so deeply seen throughout parts of this story, and those moments of painful empathy - with Decklee, with Mickenlee, with Darren - healed parts of me that wished I had something like this when I was growing up.
My only lamentation of this book is that the music isn't real, because my god, what I would give to be able to sit down and listen to any and all of it.
[NetGalley was kind enough to provide me with an ARC for this title.]
Voris embodies the heart of country music in this book. At its core, country music is about storytelling, about subverting expectations, about being willing to dream bigger, about longing for home, about losing yourself deeply in every messy, wonderful feeling, about loving and leaving and learning to live with what you've lost. Voris is so smart in the way she crafts this story: she uses dual POVs as well as "flashbacks" to lead us heart-first into character arcs and love stories and a quest for treasure in more ways than one. The result is a page-turner I couldn't put down and finished in a day after sobbing my little heart out multiple times.
As a queer woman, it was hard not to feel so deeply seen throughout parts of this story, and those moments of painful empathy - with Decklee, with Mickenlee, with Darren - healed parts of me that wished I had something like this when I was growing up.
My only lamentation of this book is that the music isn't real, because my god, what I would give to be able to sit down and listen to any and all of it.
[NetGalley was kind enough to provide me with an ARC for this title.]