I’d heard good things about this book, but that hasn’t always panned out for me. What did I think? Check out my review of Today Tonight Tomorrow!

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Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Solomon. To be published on July 28, 2020 by Simon Pulse. Thanks to the publisher for providing a review copy.

Synopsis from Goodreads: Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left—and then they’ll destroy each other. As Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams.

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Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow

Today Tonight Tomorrow was a journey in the best possible way. Rowan and Neil have been not-so-friendly rivals through out their high school career. She wins one awar.d, he wins the other. Their classmates (and me as a reader) regard them with a bit of annoyance. What’s their deal? Do they have to win everything?

But Rowan and Neil have their eyes on two more high school prizes. First, the honor of being class valedictorian. The other, winning Howl, a scavenger hunt and elimination game that the senior class traditionally plays the night before graduation. 

As the game progresses, we learn more and more about Rowan and Neil and begin to understand them as people: their motivations and what’s really behind their fierce rivalry. I figured out one main plot point but there were many other aspects of the story that I didn’t expect at all.

Today Tonight Tomorrow touches on issues like parental expectations and anti-Semitism. It’s a love letter to the city of Seattle and also defends the importance of romance novels, which I appreciated.

Today Tonight Tomorrow manages to be fun and have a lot of substance too. Definitely recommend!

Have you read this one? Talk to me in comments!

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I loved Erin Hahn’s debut, You’d Be Mine, about two rising country music stars who fall in love. What did I think about this book, which had a very different vibe, musical and otherwise? Check out my review of More Than Maybe.

More Than Maybe by Erin Hahn. Published by Wednesday Books on July 21, 2020. Thanks to the publisher for inviting me to join the blog tour and providing a review copy.

Synopsis from Goodreads: Growing up under his punk rocker dad’s spotlight, eighteen-year-old Luke Greenly knows fame and wants nothing to do with it. He prefers the anonymous comfort of the locally popular podcast he co-hosts with his outgoing and meddling, far-too-jealousy-inspiringly-happy-with-his-long-term-boyfriend twin brother, Cullen. But that’s not Luke’s only secret. He also has a major un-requited crush on music blogger Vada Carsewell. Vada’s got a five year plan: secure a job at the Loud Lizard to learn from local legend (and her mom’s boyfriend) Phil Josephs (check), take over Phil’s music blog (double check), get accepted into Berkeley’s prestigious music journalism program (check, check, check), manage Ann Arbor’s summer concert series and secure a Rolling Stone internship. Luke Greenly is most definitely NOT on the list. So what if his self-deprecating charm and out-of-this-world music knowledge makes her dizzy?

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Review of More Than Maybe:

I absolutely loved Erin Hahn’s debut and was excited that her next book, More Than Maybe, also featured themes of music, family and romance. 

If you’ve read You’d Be Mine, be ready for the fact that More Than Maybe had a very different vibe, though. The mood of each book reflects the type of music it features. More Than Maybe, which features 80s and 90s music, grunge, and classic rock, felt a lot sharper and edgier than You’d Be Mine, which was emotional and had a stronger romance plot line and a whole lot of angst and longing (just like a country song!)

More Than Maybe is set in the coolest college town in the USA (Ann Arbor, Michigan!) and featured two main characters who are each the child of a former musician. Luke is musically talented himself but prefers to stay behind the scenes, podcasting and write songs, much to his father’s disappointment. Vada, a music blogger, is hoping for a career in music journalism … if her father, who has remarried and started a new family, will cough up money for college.

More Than Maybe had a alt/indie vibe that reminded me a lot of movies like High Fidelity or Empire Records. In some ways I felt that Luke and Vada seemed a) older than high school age and b) way too cool for me, with their extensive music knowledge, insider music jokes, and habits of communicating through texts of links to YouTube videos of songs.

Luke and Vada were an interesting couple. He’s British and more reserved, she’s a brash American. But together they make (okay I won’t say sweet music – way too corny) a perfect opposites attract couple.

If you are music obsessed, you will definitely love More Than Maybe. Hahn is a really wonderful writer – this book reminded me a lot of one of my other favorite writers, Emma Mills – and I remain a huge fan.

Thanks for checking out my review of More Than Maybe. If you want to find out more about You’d Be Mine (which I highly recommend) you can find my review here.