Amazon.com:Summer is here, and 16-year-old Allie, a self-professed music geek, is exactly where she wants to be: working full-time at Berkeley’s ultra-cool Bob and Bob Records. There, Allie can spend her days bantering with the street people, talking the talk with the staff, shepherding the uncool bridge-and-tunnel shoppers, all the while blissfully surrounded by music, music, music. It’s the perfect setup for her to develop her secret identity as The Vinyl Princess, author of both a brand-new zine and blog. From the safety of her favorite place on earth, Allie is poised to have it all: love, music and blogging.
Her mother, though, is actually the one getting the dates, and business at Allie’s beloved record store is becoming dangerously slow—not to mention that there have been a string of robberies in the neighborhood. At least her blog seems to be gaining interest, one vinyl junkie at a time….
The Vinyl Princess is perfect. Main character Allie lives her life loving music, her job selling vinyl and her friends and family, basically she's awesome and I want to be her friend. The book was realistic but in the way that everyone in the book was cooler than me and I only wish I was that awesome. From Allie's extensive knowledge of music to her best friend Kit's fashion know-how I bow down to these people and am extremely jealous of them.
While the characters were great the overall atmosphere of the book was rocking as well, it gave off a bit of an Empire Records vibe for me, independent record store with a bunch of musicheads and freaks running around humor etc. There was also a bit of a mystery (that I solved just before Allie) involving a string of robberies in town and a bit of romance. Basically The Vinyl Princess is a very well rounded story with music holding the whole thing together.
Another awesome thing about the book I really appreciated was that the Vinyl Princess zine is real, I actually have a copy and I believe the blog is real as well! I love when an author takes the time to make the book come to life and doesn't just use something for the book but takes the time to make it real for the readers. That gets a major thumbs up from me.
Overall a great young adult book for teens and music lovers alike!
The Vinyl Princess was released on December 22nd!
Genre: Young Adult
5/5 Stars
ARC provided by publisher
Awesome review. Can't wait to read this one.
ReplyDeleteA 5 star! Sounds perfect *adds to wishlist*
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read my copy!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that the zine was real. How very cool!
ReplyDeleteYay! Great review! I loved this book as well. I got a final copy from Harper and it had an actual copy of the zine, which I totally happy squeeed about. Then I found out that the author lives in Sf which is like an hour from me. xD
ReplyDeleteLovely review for a lovely book! <3
I'm so glad you enjoyed this book so much - and wrote such a fantastic review of it! :) This book caught my eyes a few months ago, before it came out, so I bought it as soon as I could but haven't read it yet. I'll have to soon!
ReplyDeleteYou many not know it all about music and fashion, but you're definitely the book princess! Sounds like a fun book!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds great!
ReplyDeletei love love love this book. i just think that the way Prinz thinks and writes is so cool. Just like you, i feel uber jealous of her.
ReplyDelete