In Meagan Brothers's "Supergirl Mixtapes," a music-obsessed girl travels to New York City to find herself.After years of boredom in her rural South Carolina town, Maria is thrilled when her father finally allows her to visit her estranged artist mother in New York City. She's ready for adventure, and she soon finds herself immersed in a world of rock music and busy streets, where new people and ideas lie around every concrete corner. This is the freedom she's always longed for and she pushes for as much as she can get, skipping school to roam the streets, visit fancy museums, and flirt with the cute clerk at a downtown record store.But just like her beloved New York City, Maria's life has a darker side. Behind her mother's carefree existence are shadowy secrets, and Maria must decide just where and with whom her loyalty lies."
This isn't a very good book, but I loved it. The writing is very good and I loved all of the ways that it really feels like a story. It's not glamorized or made better, it really feels like a story we are happening to hear rather than a story written by an author. But, like I said, it's not a very good book. All the plot happens at the end, and there honestly isn't the greatest foreshadowing, it's pretty easy to pick up on. But there's a moment, just one moment of perfect clarity, that makes the book absolutely worth reading. Everything lines up and for a moment it feels like you're dying. It's underwhelming before and after, but for that one moment everything is exactly perfect.
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