So I started listening to The Sound of Stars that same day.
And yes, I feel bad about reviewing THIS book before the one(s) I’d finished first, but that’s part of this story and I’ll address it later. The audiobook showed up as available to check out on April 23rd and I’d just finished something else. Since I was in the middle of yet another book at that moment, I chose to wait. I had to decide whether to purchase it through Audible to have it NOW, or wait for the library. I checked on it and saw I would get it soon. It wasn’t until the author announced that the audiobook was available via Audible that I remembered that it was on my Libby waitlist. I added it to my wait list and promptly forgot about it yet again. When my list of currently checked-out audiobooks on my library’s Libby app gets low, I scroll through what’s new in audiobooks, and I squeed in delight when The Sound of Stars showed up. I then resumed the book I was currently reading. I took happy selfies with it in the store, came home, tweeted about it, and added it to my autographed books collection.
I had to go! I drove the 17 miles and claimed the very last autographed copy. Luckily, my Instagram feed alerted me that the author had just left some autographed copies of The Sound of Stars at a Barnes & Noble in Tampa. I decided it was best not to drive the 90 minutes, especially during a worldwide pandemic. I can’t think of them any other way.) Of course, as I spoke these words out loud, I remembered that I am agoraphobic and that I don’t actually know Ms.
(Yes, all the people I follow on Twitter on my friends. My heart leapt and I told my husband that I wanted to go meet my friend. Alechia was just one of a thousand people I followed, until the day she posted that she was in Orlando, Florida, doing a book signing. I’m not entirely sure how Alechia Dow or her debut novel, The Sound of Stars, came across my Twitter feed. “The most weird and wonderful genre-blending YA book of the year.” ~ Eric Smith, author of DON’T READ THE COMMENTS and agent at P.S.
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