Look Both Ways

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 5, 2016

Review

Brooklyn is spending her summer before senior year of high school at the esteemed Allerdale Playhouse summer stock theatre. She is hoping to make her mark within her family of successful theatre folk. She isn’t sure that she has what it takes to perform before audiences, though she is a fair pianist and a creative parody writer. Her mother is hopeful that Brooklyn will find a new love during the summer, be that lover male or female, and is appalled that Brooklyn is still a virgin at 17. What takes place during the summer revolves around love, sexual orientation, disappointment, and the usual drama of those in their late teens and early twenties, somewhat intensified as all the attendees are actors and uber emotional. People are not what they seem at Allerdale and Brooklyn becomes very confused on myriad levels. This is a welcome change for young adult readers who may be exhausted by all the books about vampires, post-apocalyptic scenarios and protagonists with special talents or dead mothers. Consider this for your shelves.

Overall Book Score: very good