Cupid's Revenge

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Between the deep seeded feelings Tilly has found for Katherine, her love for her best friend, her family issues and the production of the play Cupid's Revenge, Tilly's life has been sent into one hell of a tailspin, and no one knows where it'll finally slow down. Every girl likes a musician. Also, it indicates I’m good with my hands, which, you know, is a really good quality. Sexually speaking.” Tilly is dragged to a play so her best friend can impress a girl he has a crush on. With a family full of creatives, her parents, her sister, and even her Grandad who just recently moved in with them due to health issues, Tilly was the odd one out, the boring one who had nothing to do—at least in her family's eyes. Tilly is dragged to audition for a theater event by her best friend Teddy because he is "in love" with Katherine who is auditioning. Tilly falls for Katherine too, resulting in a big mess. Meanwhile, Tilly adjusts to her grandfather moving in, and he has early Alzheimer's. This book handles a very important and serious topic, Alzheimer’s disease. Tilly’s grandfather is diagnosed with it and he moves in with Tilly due to her grandmother no longer around. It’s handled well and it shows the readers how this disease can not only worry a family but bring a family together by working with one another to try and get a hold of it.

Cupids Revenge is a light, upbeat YA novel full of good deeds, forming friendships and high school crushes. It follows our main character Tilly and her best friend Teddy who both seem to take a liking to Katherine Cooper - Bunting (aspiring actress and Stagecoach performer). Along the way, they end up in a production called Cupid’s Revenge which is raising money for a charity for the arts. Then she opened the front door, and the next fifteen seconds played out as predicted, all “hello, hello,” as did the closing of the door, Katherine Cooper-Bunting’s sudden presence in the hallway, and us appearing in her direct line of vision.

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We’d been neighbors all our lives; our parents are—well, were—literally BFFs, and Teddy and I were born only four months apart. And even though our mothers insist this was merely a coincidence rather than the result of meticulous reproductive planning, we knew the truth.

As a lover of Wibke Brueggmann's debut novel, Love Is For Losers, I jumped at the chance to read her newest release, and it's safe to say that my excitement was well placed.The essence of awkwardness and discomfort that comes with discovering and knowing who you are, but not knowing how to use that when it comes to not just your love life, but also your personal life, is wonderful and makes the story seem so much more real and raw. It makes the characters feel more like people you know, as opposed to just fictional characters in a book. Something that I admired in Brueggmann's first novel, Love Is for Losers, and absolutely adored in Cupid's Revenge is her ability to truly capture what it's like to be a gay teenager, with such little experience when it comes to relationships.

She's left with two options, and neither of them are things that she wants. She either hurts her best friend, or she loses what could potentially be her only chance of an epic high school romance.I want to thank the publisher Macmillian Children's Publishing Group for giving me a copy of their new book, Cupid's Revenge. Cupid, that little cherub who with his bow fires arrows into the hearts of those whose time it is to fall in love does not distinguish between boy and girl or notice when the arrows may have flown in the wrong direction. Best friends are there for each other through everything, at least that is what they like to think but when real life decides to take unusual twists and turns they have to learn how to twist and turn with it and discover what they will really do for one another. Wibke Brueggemann’s Cupid’s Revenge is all about best friends, first loves and how you can never choose who you fall for but may want to keep all these people in your life. The grief was written so well in this book, how the loss of one of her close friends affected her. Tilly mentioned several times about death, how her Grandad could die and she would be the one there to find him or when her best friend Teddy was skateboarding she freaks out about him almost getting hit by a car. It's in the subtle things and the pain and panic are really brought out front and center. Seeing Tilly heal and not see Grace was really nicely done. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and Wibke Brueggmann is certainly earning her new spot on my 'must read everything she ever publishes' list! Both of us were born into musical families, but neither of us had inherited the musician gene, which was the cause of unspeakable embarrassment for our parents. Mum and Dad gave up on my musical education pretty early, but only because my older sister, Emilin, was already a genius on the piano. But because Teddy’s an only child, his parents literally didn’t want to believe how utterly useless he was and made him take Grade 2 violin exams when he was twelve and all the other kids were, like, six. When he couldn’t get through the theme tune of The Flintstones, they took him home and never spoke of it again.