Audio: August and everything after - Jennifer Savato Doktorski

Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is she supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four years, let alone the rest of her life? And why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future-or feel as if she even deserves one-when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself? 

Audio CD, 7 h
Published May 1st 2018 by Tantor Audio
YA fiction
For review

My thoughts:

This one felt like more than YA, maybe it is NA then.

Quinn is done with HS and is drifting. She has a summer to decide whether do go to College or something else. And her mum wants answers like yesterday. She is staying with her aunt (who was super cool and loves music), and working in a bar.

She has a past, wrong guys and the loss of her bestie. Poor Quinn still blames herself. And this was my second book about losing a best friend in a short while. This one dealt with it differently. 

Then in comes a hot singer and maybe he can be the right one for once.

Oh girl, maybe not. Malcolm is a drug user, sure he is recovering, but he is messed up from losing his bandmates.  Sure they both share that loss and because of that they find each other.

Also, it is a romance and at the same time not. All I can say is that I am glad she does find herself in the end. And sure, gets a bit of romance too.

Plus lots of music!

Narrator Emily Lawrence

All good things here, I liked her voices and yeah, she did not make it YA. That might sound weird, but some make it YA which is perfect. But since this one does feel more NA with drugs, alcohol and smex then her voice fitted it so well.