The Victoria in My Head by Janelle Milanes just sounds adorable! I love that it has a musical theme and a character that doesn’t fit the description of your typical rock star. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
The Victoria in My Head by Janelle Milanes
Title: The Victoria in My HeadAuthor: Janelle Milanes
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication Date: September 19, 2017
Victoria Cruz inhabits two worlds: In one, she is a rock star, thrashing the stage with her husky voice and purple-streaked hair. In the other, currently serving as her reality, Victoria is a shy teenager with overprotective Cuban parents, who sleepwalks through her life at the prestigious Evanston Academy. Unable to overcome the whole paralyzing-stage-fright thing, Victoria settles for living inside her fantasies, where nothing can go wrong and everything is set to her expertly crafted music playlists.
But after a chance encounter with an unattainably gorgeous boy named Strand, whose band seeks a lead singer, Victoria is tempted to turn her fevered daydreams into reality. To do that, she must confront her insecurities and break away from the treadmill that is her life. Suddenly, Victoria is faced with the choice of staying on the path she’s always known and straying off-course to find love, adventure, and danger.
From debut author Janelle Milanes comes a hilarious and heartfelt tale of the spectacular things that can happen when you go after what you really want.
Book Quotes: The Victoria in My Head
I can predict my life with scary accuracy.
About Janelle Milanes
Janelle Milanes is originally from Miami, FL and received her BA in English Literature from Davidson College. A lifelong YA addict, she moved to New York for her first job as a children’s literature associate at Simon & Schuster.
For the past five years, Janelle has worked as a teacher and librarian throughout the New York City area. Her first novel reflects many of her own experiences growing up as a second-generation Latina in America.
Janelle currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two cats. Her favorite Disney princess is Belle, since she was also a big book nerd.
This sounds like a fun read, so I hope you enjoy it! Awesome WoW pick 🙂
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
This sounds fun and I like books featuring music. Great pick!
It does sound rather adorable. I think I saw this a little while back because it’s on my wish list/TBR lol. My WoW
Oh, this sounds fun and cute! I hope you enjoy it when you get to it!:)
The cover is awesome, with the album. And I like the idea of this one. I know that stage fright, nervous, scared to death, pee in your pants fear. It would be interesting to see it translated on page.
I totally agree! 🙂
First time hearing about this one. I hope its as good as it sounds 🙂
This definitely sounds like one I might enjoy! Great pick!
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This sounds good and I like the fun cover