It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It’s a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA.

As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, she increasingly finds herself reduced to a body, a voice, an object. Surrounded by the wrong kind of people and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything, and one mistake can shatter a career.

My Thoughts:

The book is set in the 90’s and features a young women called Amber, not only has she received the biggest phone call of her life but she gets to move away from her old life too. She is fame hungry, so when she gets the call to become a singer she cannot believe her luck. Though for Amber it does not last long, she struggles to connect with the people around her and they are the wrong kind of crowd that you definitely should not get involved with but being fame hungry Amber will do anything to get to the top. It was eye opening to see what potentially could happen in the music industry. Drama, lies and consequences are brought together in this debut novel.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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