Will she be able to fake it until she makes it or disaster is just around the corner? When she gets the chance to become part of an industrial rock group which incidentally includes also the chance to rent a room in a shared house, she jumps at the occasion even if she has to fake it they ask for someone with stage experience and she has none.īetween the hysterical/weird/grumpy guys populating the house, the job at a psychic shop, her father not talking to her, rehearsals and her first live performance looming, Jasmine's life becomes hectic to say the least. She's left with no car, no job, no place to stay, very little money, two guitars and one kick-ass amplifier.Īnyway, at the beginning, she was coming out as a bit of a spoiled brat and I could smell clichés from a mile away. Of course he doesn't agree, hence the kicking out. Her father is one of those quite oppressive types and Jasmine wants to defer her enrollment in Stanford. We meet Jasmine being kicked out of the house by her father with her car broken down in front of an auto shop. The beginning, to be honest, wasn't really promising. So what a pleasant surprise it turned out to be, I'm so glad I was proven wrong. The past two YA contemporary books I read were pretty disappointing and I was sort of expecting this one to follow the lead. My expectations for Amplified were middle to low. Might it be because musician are always irrevocably hot? Yeah, that's probably more like it.Ĭome on, who wasn't mesmerized at some point in their life by the guy playing the guitar in front of a bonfire during a hot summer night? Only me? Ok, FINE.

Might it be because I can actually hear it like a soundtrack, just like in a movie and it makes it more vivid? Maybe. So I guess I might have a thing for books with music in them.

Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly