Thank you to the author and the publisher.

I love books about songs since I love music. Each chapter was a song and artist I was either familiar with and recognized songs.

I read the backstory from the author on her FB page and knew I had to read this. I also love the song which the it was based on, Plain White T's “Hey There Delilah.”

Cecelia was a writer for The Rolling Stone in the late 90s and was conceived at Woodstock with parents who loved the music of the 70s and involved in music, so she was immersed too. A lot happens in this book not only with her writing life but with her feelings about her father who abandoned her to live with his new wife and kids when she was a teenager and her late mother and her relationship with her boyfriend Pete who she's been seeing who's about to give up on her for many reasons. Cecelia was only in her late 20s but married to her job and he couldn't handle that and I can understand why.

The other plot was about Sara Friedman, in 1979, in Miami who spent a lot of Jewish holidays and summers there with her extended family. She meets Eddie but her parents (especially her mother) don't approve because he's not Jewish. Yes, there's a connection between the title of this books song).

I'm a sucker for a good epilogue where I cry sometimes, and this was it.

If you're a music lover, this is a must read. As Tina Turner once sang, “Simply The Best.” ( )