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Mixtape Kind of Love: Musically Inspired Romances

September 6, 2019

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Before Spotify and iTunes I was making playlists for every mood I have ever felt and every big event that has happened in my life. I have made playlists for first heartbreak, first love, moving to college, and random one such as drinking wine and introspective runs at night. Playlists are one of the ways to my heart, in fact, one of my most romantic gifts was a playlist my ex-high school sweetheart made me. There is nothing like a good romantic playlist to really profess your love for someone!

One of my favorite things about reading is when an author pairs music with a story. When authors create their own Spotify playlists to go with the book I get extremely giddy! I am a firm believer that reading should be an interactive experience and in my book reviews, I am always crafting book playlists to go along with the book as well as fancasting characters before the movie adaptation is even announced! These three books are my top musically inspired romances that make me swoon and play Coldplay songs all day.

The Victoria in My Head by Janelle Milanes

Victoria Cruz is a girl that is tired of the predictable monotony of her life. She goes to a prestigious prep school in New York and she lives with overprotective Cuban parents. Her parents have many expectations for her to go to an Ivy League college and essentially live the American dream that they themselves have worked hard to provide for her. Only Victoria has different plans in mind where she dreams of singing on stage. When she encounters a sexy guy named Strand who gives her a flyer to audition for his band, she makes a decision that will change her life forever.

Victoria in my Head hits me on a deeply emotional level because the main character is Cuban-American like myself and struggles through all the feelings I had about myself in high school. She is still trying figuring out what she wants in her life and doesn’t feel like she fits into her Cuban-American identity. Victoria is constantly living in her own head and she is constantly daydreaming about the kind of life or the kind of girl she wants to be. When get gets the opportunity to be in a rock band, she gets caught up in a love triangle with two bandmates Levi and Strand! This is a love triangle that is done so perfectly because it mounts the tension, the conflict, and the palpable chemistry between the characters. This own voices underrated book is a story chockful of indie rock with all the teen angst, growing pains you can ever ask for, and it deserves some love!

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Amy and Roger travel cross-country from California to Stanwich, Connecticut and they go through an emotional journey that brings them closer together and makes them realize that love and life is a detour. This is the kind of book where you feel like your on a road trip with Amy and Roger and it’s the kind of road trip that you never want to end.

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour is one of the most EPIC musically-inspired romances I have ever read! Matson has a gift when it comes to crafting the most incredible playlists and I consider her my mixtape soul sister. The romance behind Amy and Roger’s romance blooms through their intricately crafted road trip playlists. There are songs in the book that introduced me to new artists such as Wilco’s “California Stars” and it’s the one song that repeatedly plays in my head.

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & the Six is the story of an up-and-coming 1970s rock band who became famous when the singer Daisy Jones joins the rock band and ultimately makes rock history. The story chronicles the journey of the band from their beginnings, their rise to fame, and the tumultuous relationships that were made throughout the years that the band was together. Daisy Jones & the Six is written in an oral history format and it tells the story of an iconic 1970s band and the reason for their mysterious breakup.

My heart would not be able to handle not including one of my favorite books of the year! The romances that develop between the characters are written in such a realistic fashion that it seems like they are real people you can look up on google. The music that is inspired by this book is classic 1970s rock and the music throughout this book captures the tortured romance between the characters of Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne. There is such an unreal passion that sparks between Daisy and Billy and it speaks through their song lyrics. The romance between Daisy Jones and Billy is the kind of romance you will continue to ship long after it is over and it will leave you with one of the biggest book hangovers of your life!

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The Queen of Historical Fiction and Taylor Jenkins Reid Book Reveal

April 4, 2019

When I found out that Taylor Jenkins Reid was coming to Books & Books in Miami only seven days apart from her book release Daisy Jones & the Six, I screamed louder than my 14-year-old self in a Hanson concert! Daisy Jones & the Six was the one book that I was HIGHLY ANTICIPATING! This book was the one book of the year that I wish I could read for the first time and ever since I read Daisy Jones I literally have been thinking about this book every day since I have read it! 

Listening to Taylor Jenkins Reid discuss her book was captivating and I loved some of the tidbits she revealed about her writing process of the book. One of the questions I asked her is the amount of detail she revealed when she described the music. The way she was writing this book was as if she was a musician herself and she revealed that her husband and brother are musicians and that’s how she was able to write about the technical aspects of the music with such precision! I am absolutely baffled at the amount of skill this woman has to create the kind of book that makes you feel like you want to google Daisy Jones & the Six! She has this incredible ability to write characters that are so real, that you wish that they existed and that’s why she is my official queen of Historical Fiction! 

Daisy Jones & the Six was greatly influenced by Fleetwood Mac and other female rock stars like Linda Ronstadt! The moderator had a wealth of knowledge when it came to the seventies rock genre since she was involved in the seventies music scene as well and there was a great connection between the author and the moderator discussing their love of seventies music. 

Jenkins also revealed that she was also influenced by the indie duo band The Civil Wars who broke up in 2014. There was never a response as to why they broke up but judging from the unreal chemistry they had together when they sang there were rumors of an affair. Jenkins actually said the break up with The Civil Wars is what greatly influenced the beginnings of Daisy Jones & the Six!

Now the news that made me fangirl-squeal was when she revealed to our book audience for the first time that she is actually writing a new book that is set in the eighties in Malibu, California! Taylor Jenkins Reid is my MVP of Historical Fiction in my eyes and this is probably going to be another Taylor Jenkins Reid book that will rip me apart!

Taylor Jenkins Reid in person is an absolute love and I am so happy and thrilled to have the opportunity to meet this incredible woman! She is so sweet and personable that I was actually comfortable enough to ask her advice for the current book I am writing. Meeting Taylor Jenkins Reid was one of my best literary moments of the year! While I impatiently wait for Taylor Jenkins Reid to write another book I am just going to continue shipping Daisy and Billy while listening to my Daisy Jones & the Six Spotify playlist! 

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Waiting on Wednesday: Daisy Jones & The Six

February 27, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday was created by Breaking the Spine, and is now hosted by Wishful Endings (as Can’t Wait Wednesday). It’s a feature where they discuss one of the most anticipated upcoming book releases. The anticipated book release is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid!

Catnopsis

Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

Why I’m Waiting

My heart is bursting with fangirl excitement for Daisy Jones and the Six because I live for rock star romances. I was a Hanson groupie from 1997-2000 (Not a naughty groupie!) and I always dreamed of marrying Zac Hanson, read bad Hanson fanfiction, and watched Almost Famous on repeat! 

Throughout my years of growing up, I had a fascination with the 60s and 70s, dramatic True Hollywood Story documentaries such as the one on Fleetwood Mac, and I daydreamed about being around for the Bob Dylan concert where he grew famous for playing the electric guitar in a folk concert. I know I am a bit extra now but I am going to be all over this book the second it is released on March 5th!

My excitement is also now quadrupled because Taylor Jenkins Reid is coming near my hometown March 12th to Books and Books in Coral Gables! She is the author that made me fall in love with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and I am so excited for Daisy Jones & the Six that I am 90% confident that I am going to finish this book by the time I meet her! I know I always say that I am going to finish authors books by the time I meet them and don’t always fall through but I am way BEYOND excited for her book release! 

What is your “can’t-wait-Wednesday” fangirl-crazy books?! Chat with me and tell me about the book releases your crazy about! 

 

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Top Ten Tuesday: 2019 Anticipated TBR List

January 29, 2019

Top Ten Tuesday was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. Top Ten Tuesday this week consists of my most anticipated reads of 2019!

1…Daisy Jones & The Six

Ever since I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo I was DONE FOR! I am forever in the mercy of anything that Taylor Jenkins Reid writes forever! Daisy Jones & the Six is a story about a rock band in the 1970s and I haven’t come across many historical fiction books about rock bands! Since I am a registered fangirl for many bands throughout my life (cough cough Hanson and No Doubt) and I am obsessed with the movie Almost Famous this book is right up my alley! Read my book review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo here. 

2…King of Scars

I know nothing about this book and I don’t want to know ANYTHING about this book because I am just finishing the first book of the Grisha trilogy Shadow and Bone! I am already addicted to the series even though the writing is sub-par but the plot has me completely sucked in! This girl cannot resist the Darkling and the “hint of the smile that plays on his lips!” I am way behind in the Bardugo fandom and I am planning to meet her this Thursday in Miami! I know after meeting her I am going to be even more excited about reading King of Scars!

3…Again, but Better

I have been following Christine Riccio’s YouTube channel Polandbananas ever since I started to get into BookTube! I followed her journey through writing this novel and I am so excited to read this contemporary new adult novel that is set in college! Oh and London! Say what?! I haven’t read many novels in a college setting and I am pretty sure Riccio won’t disappoint me with this book!

4…With the Fire on High

I met Acevedo unexpectedly for a Tomi Adeyemi book signing and once I heard her speak I immediately bought her book The Poet X! This book is about a struggling teen mom trying to take care of her daughter and abuela while having aspirations to work as a chef. My excitement for this book is unreal and if it’s anything like The Poet X, it will probably become my top favorite reads of 2019! Read my book review on The Poet X here.

5…The Princess and the Fangirl

Geekerella was one of my favorite reads of 2017! I loved the quirky/geeky fandom of this Cinderella retelling! This is the second book to the Starfield fandom and I am ready to fangirl away with this book! Ashley Poston genuinely knows how to write about fandoms and I am ready to join the Starfield fandom fleet again when it comes out this April! 

6…Slayer

Before Dawson’s Creek and before Felicity, I was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And then I became a total freak over the will they won’t they relationship between Dawson and Joey and Felicity’s stalking tendencies for Ben that I got majorly distracted! I have been wanting to rewatch the Buffy series again for a long time but I never got around to it. I am very excited about the Slayer book and I hope it will reignite the love I had for Buffy when I was thirteen years old! 

7…On the Come Up

The Hate U Give is a book I will never forget and one of my favorite reads of 2018! Angie Thomas wrote about the black lives matter movement in such a powerful way. I fell in love with the characters from The Hate U Give because they were so authentic. On the Come Up is about an aspiring rapper who is facing financial issues with her family and how she goes after her dreams of becoming a rapper. On the Come Up also discusses social issues with freedom of speech and I have a feeling this book will be one of the most inspirational books of 2019!

8…Tell Me Everything by Sarah Enni

 

 

 

 

 

Sarah Enni’s podcast First Draft is one of my fave podcasts of all time! Her interviews are always fascinating, entertaining, and articulate. She interviews many authors but mostly YA authors in her podcasts! I am really excited about this book since I am curious about Sarah Enni’s writing since I love YA contemporaries and I love that the protagonist is an aspiring artist! Art is one of my favorite past times and if I am not in a book event I am usually frequenting an art event! I am beyond excited for Sarah Enni and can’t wait to pick up this book!

9…Girl Stop Apologizing

Girl, Wash Your Face was my ultimate self-help book of the year of 2018 and I have a feeling Girl, Stop Apologizing is going to be the “ultimate” self-help book of the year of 2019! I have written about Rachel Hollis NONSTOP on my blog and I will never stop raving about this woman! Rachel Hollis is my homegirl because her book makes you feel like your just hanging out with your wise girlfriend over a bottle of wine! 

10…Don’t Date Rosa Santos

This book completely took me by surprise. I was perusing through YA releases and just found out about this book today! The protagonist of this book is Cuban and it is written by an own voices author! I just read Janelle Milanes’ book Analee, in Real Life and I am looking forward to reading this book too! I am all about supporting latinx authors especially if it is written by a Cuban American author because there isn’t a lot of Cuban rep in YA books! This book is described as a Gilmore Girls meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before with a hint of magical realism! Nina Moreno’s book has all my favorite elements of a YA book and I am ready to gobble this up as soon as May approaches! 

 

Chat with me and let me know what are your most anticipated reads of 2019?!

 

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Magical Three Monday Reads Tag: Holiday New Year Edition

December 31, 2018

 

New Year’s Eve is finally here! Here are my top three magical Monday reads that I cannot wait to read for the New Year of 2019! 

1…The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

My excitement for this book is an absolute understatement! I devoured The Night Circus and if anyone knows about Erin Morgenstern you would know that The Night Circus was the debut novel for this author! There are few authors out there where their first novel is an unequivocal masterpiece and The Night Circus is in this category for so many reasons! If you haven’t read Morgenstern’s work and you want to experience the reasons why her writing is pure magic then read The Night Circus before the November release of The Starless Sea!

 

2…Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid completely broke my heart with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and I have a feeling Daisy Jones & The Six will be no exception! If you’re curious to hear my thoughts about Evelyn Hugo, read my review about this book that left me a massive book hangover here. 

I have always had a fascination with the ’60s and 70’s ever since I was a little girl and instead of listening to Boys 2 Men and Ace of Base, I was grooving along to bands like The Turtles, The Beach Boys, and the Beatles!

Daisy Jones & The Six is giving me the Penny Lane feels and this book is right up my alley because when Almost Famous debuted I was obsessed with the character of Penny Lane back in high school!

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Although this isn’t a story about a groupie following a band, this is about a girl named Daisy who becomes one of the lead bandmembers of an iconic band in the 1970s! Taylor Jenkins Reid clearly has a gift of writing historical fiction after the success of Evelyn Hugo and I have a feeling this book is going to be HUGE!  I am pretty certain this is going to be my fave book of 2019! March can’t come quickly enough!!!

 

3…Again, but Better by Christine Riccio

Christine Riccio is the first booktuber I started following on Booktube when I found that Booktube was an actual thing and I absolutely gobbled up her channel polandbananasBOOKS! I had the pleasure of meeting Christine Riccio in BookNet Fest and I am so excited for her debut novel!

Again, But Better is a new adult contemporary novel set in college and I am SO EXCITED to read this book because there are not enough new adult contemporary novels that are set in college! I love to read novels set in college and the last one I read was Fangirl which disappointed me, unfortunately. Find out why the book Fangirl was a big dud for me and why Rainbow Rowell and I no longer get along here.

Christine Riccio wrote a book that is right up my alley especially since the main character takes a semester abroad to London! My book nerd heart is dying to go to London to go book shopping and of course go on the Harry Potter tour! Since I have been watching Christine Riccio’s channel for a while now I have a feeling there will be a Harry Potter tour involved here hopefully! EEEK!

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This is a coming of age novel and I am a sucker for coming of age novels especially when it involves a new country! This book comes out in May and I am planning to start reserving this book in the library! One of my bookolutions for 2019 is to not buy any books for the New Year…unless there is an author signing involved and I don’t own their books!

I have a feeling 2019 is going to be the most amazing year for reading! What are your three magical reads for 2019?! Chat with me in the comments below!

 

Feel free to participate in this book tag and Happy New Year of Reading and fangirling!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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