While spacing out in chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk and added a message to her. Intrigue!
Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging full-on letters—sharing secrets, recommending bands, and opening up to each other. Lily realizes she’s kind of falling for this letter writer. Only, who is he? As Lily attempts to unravel the mystery and juggle school, friends, crushes, and her crazy family, she discovers that matters of the heart can’t always be spelled out…
My review: 4 of 5 stars
I received a signed copy of this book in my August UpperCase box. At first, I wasn't too excited. Really slow to start with but once I got about a third of the way in, I was hooked. This is a high school romance as told through letters between two students, unknown (at first) to each other.
The Characters: Lily was a character I found easy to like. She has a big crazy family and spends a lot of time helping with her younger brothers (babysitting). A music lover, who isn't all that in to the mainstream, she marches to the beat of her own drum. This book is from her viewpoint. Lily constantly writes in her notebook. Doodling, writing her own song lyrics, just writing. Anyway, I just love Lily.
The Plot: While predictable at times, this story was just original enough to keep me reading. What starts out as Lily writing on her desk, a few song lyrics, turns into a pen-pal type relationship. Her and another person exchange letters, hidden in the underside of the desk of her chemistry class. The pace in this was quick enough that I didn't get bored. Also there were parts of the book that were the actual letters. I love it when they do that in books!
Overall I thought this book was adorable. My mom would have called it popcorn reading. Nothing too hard to think about, nothing to weird or scary, just light an fluffy and fun.
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