Review : Stargazing from Nowhere by Isabel Thomas, Marilyn Thomas (YA)

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Book Blurb

Kristen Morgan's blog is about to get her into trouble. Deep trouble. Online, she is known as "Stargazer" from the popular Stargazing from Nowhere blog, while in real life she is a regular fifteen-year-old high school student. This online anonymity is quite liberating, allowing her to be completely honest with her readers. Through a twist of fate, Rising Tide, the band she has bashed the most online, ends up in her small town, which sends Kristen into an excited panic. To continue gathering fresh material for her blog, she poses as a Rising Tide fan. After sneaking into the band's private party, she comes face to face with the band's drummer, Michael Stevens, who happens to be even more gorgeous in person than she cares to admit. Something unexpected also happens to her when she meets him: she becomes giddy, nervous, and inarticulate, leading Kristen to realize that her interest in Michael has nothing to do with her blog, but everything to do with her heart. As Kristen and Michael grow closer, does she have to make a choice between blog or boyfriend...Or is the choice made for her?

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Toot's Review by Stacy Sabala

Kristen is from a small town and frustrated with the nonexistent life she seems to have. She is bored and feels frozen in place. So secretly she has and maintains a blog where she discusses famous people. She has plans to leave her small town and believes her blog will help her do that. She is very dedicated to it. In fact she is known for her posts about the band Rising Tide. They were once her favorite band but they have been struggling and she had been highly critical of them. In fact she gets almost hostile. So when she finds out they are coming to her town to write songs and possibly work with her uncle, she is determined to get the scoop for her blog followers. She and her friend Maggie go to a taped interview for the band and sneak into a party they host.

Kristen overhears lots of information when she is around the band. Some of it she uses for her blog, but as she gets to know the boys better she starts to feel guilty. In fact as her feelings for the drummer, Michael, grow she panics that he will find out who she really is. She doesn’t know what to do.

Of course karma always has a way to fix things and secrets always have a way of coming out. Kristen knows that her world will come crashing down around her.

The storyline was an interesting one. Any teenage girl would love to have a famous band come stay in her town. Then to have her famous band member crush actually like her in return is a dream come true for most.

However Kristen was not my favorite character. She was very passive and as the story continued I liked her less and less. Her opinions on her blog were strong and focused but in real life she was nothing of the sort. It was a bit unrealistic for a fifteen year old girl to be so unsure of how she felt.

The story was also predictable. I knew how it was going to go and end. I was hoping she would be brave enough to come clean herself. With that said I would give it a 3 out of 5.

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