Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
Henry Holt, Macmillan Publishing Group, 2017
Hardcover, OwlCrate edition, 312 pages
A contemporary novel about a girl whose high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream leads her to new friends—and maybe even new love.
The day of the last party of the summer, Claudia overhears a conversation she wasn’t supposed to. Now on the wrong side of one of the meanest girls in school, Claudia doesn’t know what to expect when the two are paired up to write a paper—let alone when they’re both forced to try out for the school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
But mandatory participation has its upsides—namely, an unexpected friendship, a boy band obsession, and a guy with the best dimpled smile Claudia’s ever seen. As Claudia’s world starts to expand, she finds that maybe there are some things worth sticking her neck out for.
Review:This is it. The YA novel that we’ve all been waiting for that brings a bit of everything into it.
Romance, old friends, new friends, a diversity of characters. I loved the multitude of characters – the tough Asian girl, the dorky popular boy, the lesbian couple you want to see come back together. And all the little relationships in this story were so real and cute – between siblings, between best of friends, between friends who started as indifferent acquaintances.
Plus, there’s a smattering of great references in it – Harry Potter, a One Direction-esque band, some classic Shakespeare, Korean bbq – all things that create a YA novel that I’m recommending to everyone.
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