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Get Back

Young Adult Indie 186

Get Back, Imagine...saving John Lennon

November 09, 2015

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4.3

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The reviews on Amazon.com are all over the map for this book so I decided to check it out for myself. Here's what I think: it's a fun, fast-paced book into a world I only wish existed, a world where I could go back in time and visit with the Beatles and maybe, just maybe, stop tragic events from happening. As nearly everyone says, this novel is a FUN READ. Is it literature? Nope but so what? I've read so many many literary novels where there is no plot. It is refreshing to read one that is full of plot and fun characters.

To recap briefly, Lenny the teenager meets the girl of his most recent dreams, a girl named Yoko and together they travel to the '60s to meet the Beatles via an iPod supplied by Lenny's grandfather (who is gay and BTW, this book is filled with DIVERSITY...having gay and Asian characters and that's a point in its favor). The two teens hang out with the Beatles but Yoko has an ulterior motive -- she wants to meet her grandmother who died when she was young. The grandmother was a backup singer with a lot of '60s groups and knew the Beatles personally.

The plot all comes together in the end and you'll find yourself whipping through the pages as I did. If you want a fun read and a page-turner, this one's for you. If you want to read high literature, then probably not but not all books need to be one thing. Enjoy!!! That's my advice lovelies.

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The reviews on Amazon.com for this book are all over the map so I decided to check it out for myself. Here's what I think: it's a fun, fast-paced book into a world I only wish existed, a world where I could go back in time and visit with the Beatles and maybe, just maybe, stop tragic events from happening. As nearly everyone says, this novel is a FUN READ. Is it literature? Nope but so what? I've read so many many literary novels where there is no plot. It is refreshing to read one that is full of plot and fun characters.

To recap briefly, Lenny the teenager meets the girl of his most recent dreams, a girl named Yoko and together they travel to the '60s to meet the Beatles via an iPod supplied by Lenny's grandfather (who is gay and BTW, this book is filled with DIVERSITY...having gay and Asian characters and that's a point in its favor). The two teens hang out with the Beatles but Yoko has an ulterior motive -- she wants to meet her grandmother who died when she was young. The grandmother was a backup singer with a lot of '60s groups and knew the Beatles personally.

The plot all comes together in the end and you'll find yourself whipping through the pages as I did. If you want a fun read and a page-turner, this one's for you. If you want to read high literature, then probably not but not all books need to be one thing. Enjoy!!! That's my advice lovelies.