Actual rating: 4.5This book was so beautiful

what kind of gay sorcery is this???this is a slow book. not at all action-packed. but somehow I was just so engayged that I barely noticed, and I just fell in love with the story and these characters. this is... so beautiful

I would like to live inside this book, please.If I cannot be a teenage set designer with exactly one best friend living in LA, with parents who order garlic-based takeout every night and have cool jobs, who is usually on a quest of some kind and ultimately falls in love...Well, I'd at least like to be inside that story forever, if I cannot be the story itself.Bottom line: So cute so sweet so nice!---------------pre-reviewi liked this...way more than the first time?that has never happened before....

“as much as i had wanted a love story out of a movie, i know now that movies can only hope to capture this kind of love.” look, this was everything i wanted, and more. going into this novel, i wasn’t really expecting something that i would absolutely love. what i expected was a generic 3 star read that i’ll put off as eh, contemporary isn’t really my preferred genre and that’s nothing new but THIS is the kind of contemporary that i would die for time and time again.everything leads to you is an

3.5 Stars "Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?” Awww, this was so cute. Seriously a nice palate cleanser in between all the angst and fantasy I’ve been reading lately. This story revolves around Emi, who whole working set design in LA stumbles onto a mystery involving a classic film star and a troubled girl named Ava. There's this really fantastic element of movie magic, and it was gre...

i loved this. like a lot. video review to come.

Without a doubt, this is LaCour's best novel by far. While I've loved and taken away something different from every one of her books, I was still blown away by this which, believe me, is no easy task.Film What I appreciate about LaCour's writing style, in general, is the fact that she never writes down to her audience. Instead of depicting young adults whose lives revolve around school, she imbibes each and every one of her protagonists which a passion. In Hold Still it was photography; in The D...

A really great book!

My problem with Everything leads to you is how incredibly one-dimensional and shallow the story is. Everything is either modern! and chic! or vintage! and charming!, polished to perfection. There is very little realism. I always welcome diversity and was happy to see a a lesbian mixed race main character. However, you’re telling me she has never experienced discrimination, rejection or any type of struggle?I don’t buy it.We’ve all been there, especially if you're not white, cis and rich. Someone...

I'm trying to get back into audiobooks, and knowing that contemporary and memoirs are the funnest to listen to, I gave this one a try. I really enjoyed the narrator and the story, so it was a fun listen! But I proved to myself that once again, I have a tendency to let details slip through the cracks when I listen to audiobooks.The main thing I enjoyed about this book is the characters. I thought Emi was a good lens from which the story is told, and her friendships with Charlotte and Ava were so

Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestEVERYTHING LEADS TO YOU is fantastic. It's kind of like a sapphic blend of SUITE SCARLETT and HELLO, SUNSHINE. Set in Los Angeles, it features our heroine, Emi, who is a production designer. This means she puts together and obtains items for sets in plays and movies. (What a cool job!) One day, she goes to a big estate sale up in the hills and finds out it used to belong to a big-shot cowboy actor from way back when (think Clint Eastwood

3.5 starsWith a mixture of Deb Caletti's quiet storytelling and Sarah Dessen's eye for detail, Nina LaCour writes the tale of Emi Price, an aspiring production designer who just graduated from high school. We first encounter Emi after her brother leaves her his polished Los Angeles apartment. His only instructions to her: do something amazing with the place. Emi feels at a loss until she and her best friend Charlotte stumble upon a mysterious letter at the old house of a deceased Hollywood legen...

SO good. Perfect touch of mystery without actually being a mystery. I didn't want this to end!F/f romance and the MC is 1/4 Black.Audiobook review: Narration was great! Would recommend. Some scenes seemed like they were script readings with stage directions, which might have had formatting in the print version, but I'm familiar with stage directions and didn't feel like anything was lost.tw: death by overdose, toxic parent, teen homelessness.

“We love films because they make us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They fill us with longing. But also. They tell us to remember; they remind us of life. Remember, they say, how much it hurts to have your heartbroken.” This is such a Classic in the lgbtq+ fiction scene, especially for wow & YA LGBT lit. I thought this was really sweet, and I actually liked

This review appears on Happy Indulgence. Check it out for more reviews! It’s not often I rate a contemporary 5 stars, but Everything Leads To You deserves every accolade. As a completely enchanting, elegant exploration of movie making in LA, it’s a story of hope, a young starlet and a designer, artistic passion and love that only grows when you give it a chance.The novel starts off with a mystery, where Emi and her best friend Chantelle stumble upon a movie star’s inheritance letter, which leads...

So, this book, in lack of a better word, is awful.There are so many problems with this book that I lost count while reading it so I'm going to try my best to be not spoilery and...nice.I was told that every Nina LaCour book was good, but I don't think I'll be picking up another one anytime soon because her writing style is very similar to an amateur fan fiction writer. "Oh," Ava says, looking at the screen. "The internet is locked or something.""You just need a password. The front desk will giv