Weekly Reads: Foolish Hearts

I kept hearing wonderful things about Foolish Hearts but every time I'd read the premise, I'd think... nah... not for me. See even though I'm a librarian, I'm not a big Shakespeare fan. GASP, the horror! Right? But I picked it up anyway, and the story is the sweetest thing in the world, and I didn't want to put it down.

My rating: 5 stars

Summary from goodreads:

A contemporary novel about a girl whose high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream leads her to new friends—and maybe even new love.

The day of the last party of the summer, Claudia overhears a conversation she wasn't supposed to. Now on the wrong side of one of the meanest girls in school, Claudia doesn't know what to expect when the two are paired up to write a paper—let alone when they're both forced to try out for the school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

But mandatory participation has its upsides—namely, an unexpected friendship, a boy band obsession, and a guy with the best dimpled smile Claudia's ever seen. As Claudia's world starts to expand, she finds that maybe there are some things worth sticking her neck out for