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Full Flight by Ashley Schumacher
4.0

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advanced audio copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.

This book was super cute. It's a slow romance between Anna and Weston. Anna is new to the band scene and is eager to prove her mettle. She's got a solo in their competition song, but is going to need serious help to be able to keep it. Thank goodness for weirdo Weston who is the mellophone player extraordinaire. When Anna asks him for help, he can't help but to agree. As they continue practicing together and getting to know one another, they start to fall for one other.

It was so sweet and I genuinely loved both of our characters. They were flawed and real and written very true to how a teenager would think and act.

My main issues with this book are these:
1. Anna's parents decide they don't want her spending time with Weston because... they don't know him? And his parents are divorced. Bro..... just invite him over for dinner or something. Then you'll "know" him. And it's not his fault that his parents got divorced!
2. The big spoilery thing at the end. It's mentioned in the book summary, so it's not *really* spoilery, but I won't say exactly what happens. This happened so close to the end that I feel like it wasn't handled as well as it could have been. If it's gonna be listed in the summary.... surely it shouldn't happen in the last 15% of the book, right?

This title has two narrators-- one for Anna and one for Weston. Both were great, but Anna's narrator was just *chef's kiss*

I would definitely recommend this as a slow romance with discussions of grief.