One more dog blog post on this last day of March...author Shannon Hale, of Real Friends and Best Friends (graphic novels) fame, writer of one of my all-time favorite books, Princess Academy, released this latest chapter book about a young woman who drops out of high school early to pursue her dream of performing on Broadway. At high school, Josie Pie is such a talented actress that the drama teacher urges her to go to New York and audition for a Broadway show. Things don't turn out exactly as she had hoped or planned, but the rest is where this story goes in a million different directions...all at the same time!
Hale has been writing for a long time, and book 1 in the Princess Academy series really is one of the best teen book I have ever read! And I've read a lot of books, dawg! But Big Deal is anything BUT a big deal. I finished it, so there is THAT, but only because I was hoping she somehow brought this story together in one brilliant finish. The ending did get better, for a little while, but then dissolved again into a "what else could I be reading?" kind of book.
Some of Hale's books are brilliant (those mentioned above, minus this new one), so make a point of checking something out that she has written. But unless you are a thespian (and if you know what that is you probably are one, which is a good thing!), you could spend your time better on any number of other stories. 3 paws, and only because it's Shannon Hale!
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