It is good I did not review Lemonade Mouth before I finished it. Had I, I might not have had very nice things to say. About one-third of the way through it got really interesting and by the end I was cheering for all five main characters. It is really an ensemble novel, told from the point of view of five high school freshman who form a band during detention one afternoon. Wen is from the novel I Am the Wallpaper, though Floey Packer, from that novel, makes only a brief appearance in this book. There are also Stella, Mo, and Olivia, an interesting mix of misfit musicians. The group is completed by Charlie, the unorthodox drummer. Looks like the author Mark Peter Hughes released another book this summer, A Crack in the Sky, a post-apocalyptic story of the type so popular now since the Hunger Games trilogy, which by the way is brilliant and you should read it...if you have not already, in which case you know exactly what I am talking about. Since I enjoyed both books by Hughes I will give this new one a try; I am interested to see how he fares in the science- fiction genre.
