I have to open this by noting that I received this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I'm grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this.

This was a really fun and enthralling story! I went in not very sure what to expect--the "musical fiction" kind of threw me for a loop, and in the opening pages I was absolutely this was going to be a slog, as I'm not a person who cares very much about the kinds of musical fandom that Nick and his friends do, but rapidly I got sucked into the mystery plot, and I really have to say Holliday did an amazing job of making like deeply relatable and realistic teen characters. Nicky especially was just a masterclass in that tension of being almost-an-adult, and not having full control over like your emotions and reactions, but still fully facing the consequences of that. All of the characters, though, were really lively and lovely. And I bet if you like and care about like the 60s British pop music scene, you'd be way more clued in than I was about all of that stuff.

Will say there's some period-based homophobia that ends up lingering, but I was able to continue reading and didn't find it particularly triggering, more just annoying.