![]() This is story Julie and Sam! They are only seventeen but they seem like they figured out everything about their futures. I knew it would hurt like hell since I read the blurb! But I eventually requested and I am still happy to read this extremely heartfelt beauty even though I’m an emotional mess right now! I knew it would slice my heart into tiny pieces. I knew this book will break me into pieces. Oh my God! This tear jerker, the most emotional read of the year is finally out! Happy pub day!□□ martins press/wednesday books for the ARC! and sam deserved better, tbh.īut overall, still a decent debut and im interested in seeing what DT comes up with next! the last chapter and epilogue are really quite touching, its just that i know i would have emotionally felt more if i had cared about julie. ![]() Which is such a shame because i think the story at its heart is a really good one and one i think will resonate with any reader who has ever struggled with letting someone go and moving on. so its not her grief and sorrow thats making her lash out and treat everyone like crap, thats just who she is and it makes for a very frustrating and unenjoyable book. but then i realised shes just as selfish and rude in the flashbacks. grieving is an incredibly personal process and everyone handles it differently, so i was willing to tolerate a lot of her anger. I honestly wanted to cut julie some slack in the beginning. ![]() Unable to stand by the sidelines and watch their shared loved ones in pain, Julie is torn between spilling the truth about her calls with Sam and risking their connection and losing him forever.Ī really sweet, sentimental story that is dampened by an unlikable main character. However, keeping her otherworldly calls with Sam a secret isn’t easy, especially when Julie witnesses the suffering Sam’s family is going through. But hearing Sam’s voice makes her fall for him all over again, and with each call it becomes harder to let him go. In a miraculous turn of events, Julie’s been given a second chance at goodbye. Desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls Sam’s cellphone just to listen to his voicemail. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces back memories. Heartbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws out his things, and tries everything to forget him and the tragic way he died. But the romance, and her loneliness, are ever present, and set her up nicely for her real second album.Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out-move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer in Japan. Her soft, digitally layered voice, and the tasteful mix of acoustic and electronic instruments behind her, don’t do such a good job of conveying her anguish. “Like, Jesus Christ, calm down,” she sings on the bouncy folk pop of Cocoon, and must be talking to herself given that she also describes herself as the Antichrist for instigating a breakup, and cries, “Without you, my soul is doomed,” on the shiny Eighties bop Into Your Room. Like Rodrigo, and the queen of this kind of thing, Taylor Swift, she’s also adept at depicting the love lives of young women in a way that wins obsessive fans but might cause outsiders to wonder quite what the fuss is about. Elvis Impersonators finds her imagining what her sister is doing on the other side of the world. Room Service is a sweet acoustic song of longing from the perspective of someone who has experienced way too many hotel bedroom meals. The song Lauren is named after her best friend and begins: “I used to drive you home but now I just drive you crazy,” while the drums clatter energetically and softly spoken synths keep the mood melancholy. It was mostly written between concerts all over the world, and the major theme is feeling isolated from friends, lovers, family and home. The content here also sounds like familiar second album material. ![]() No wonder it feels like this can’t possibly be her first full release. There was an album-length collection of songs from early EPs, Can You Afford to Lose Me? a year ago, and meanwhile she’s been gigging in major American venues supporting superstar Olivia Rodrigo, as well as headlining Brixton Academy herself. Humberstone placed second in the BBC’s Sound of 2021 list, then won the similar, even higher profile, Brit Award for Rising Star in early 2022. Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith and Years & Years are among those who did. Such is the strange state of pop music today, where TikTok offers success in seconds but laying the foundations for anything approaching a lasting career seems to take longer than ever.įor example, it’s historically been common for acts who triumph in the BBC’s annual January poll, a reliable roster of next big things, to release a hit debut album shortly afterwards. This is the debut album from Grantham 23-year-old Holly Humberstone, but in many ways it feels like her second.
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