When You Get The Chance by Emma Lord

Hey book lovers! I’m here with a book review for When You Get The Chance by Emma Lord. After giving Tweet Cute 5 stars and You Have A Match 4 stars, I jumped at the chance to request an ARC for When You Get The Chance. I’ve already added her next novel to my Goodreads TBR even though I don’t know the title, publication date or cover. Lord’s writing is guaranteed to make me smile.

There’s a chance Millie’s estranged mother has seen Millie’s embarrassing viral video of her playing Jo in her middle school’s musical of Little Women.
There’s a chance that Millie may find her biological mother.
There’s a chance that Millie may find herself actually growing to like her enemy.

Millie will never know unless she takes a chance.

About The Book 📚

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58292871-when-you-get-the-chance

Title: When You Get The Chance

Author: Emma Lord

Publication Date: January 4, 2022

Publisher: Wednesday Books

Suggested Reader Age: 14+

Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

About The Author

“Emma Lord is the NYT bestselling author of YOU HAVE A MATCH and TWEET CUTE, a BuzzFeed market editor, and dessert gremlin living in New York City, where she spends whatever time she isn’t writing either running or belting show tunes in community theater. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a major in psychology and a minor in how to tilt your computer screen so nobody will notice you updating your fan fiction from the back row. She was raised on glitter, a whole lot of love, and copious amounts of grilled cheese.” https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18673646.Emma_Lord

My Review

› Millie has been accepted into a musical theatre precollege. Her dad doesn’t think it’s a good idea. Millie has never met her mother, but she has discovered that her mom is involved with theatre in some way, and so Millie makes a plan to find her mother so she can help convince Millie’s father to let her go to the precollege instead of staying in high school. Millie’s journey to find her mother leads her to take dance lessons, join a musical theatre enthusiast meetup group, and get sucked into a competition against Oliver (her high school rival) for an internship.

› I use the CAWPILE method to rate books.
0-3 Really bad
4-6 Mediocre
7-9 Really good
10 Outstanding

› Characters: 10
I feel like I should warn you – Millie is annoying. Her decisions are impulsive, but she does learn a lot…so if you find yourself rolling your eyes at Millie’s actions and words, hang in there. The relationship between Millie and her dad is the best. ♥

› Atmosphere: 9
Excellent emotion/mood/tone, however, I found it hard to picture myself in each setting (which is normally something that’s easy for me, I’m a visual reader).

› Writing Style: 10
High quality, authentic dialogue, easy readability, love the writing style.

› Plot: 8
Not a page-turner for me. Great beginning, but the middle and end were a little weird for me.

› Intrigue: 10

› Logic: 10

› Enjoyment: 10

Average 9.6

1.1-2.2 = ★
2.3-4.5 = ★★
4.6-6.9 = ★★★
7-8.9 = ★★★★
9-10 = ★★★★★

My Rating ★★★★★

› Final Thoughts
• Inspired by “Mamma Mia”, When You Get The Chance is a charming and heartfelt story about taking chances and getting second chances. One of my favourite books I read in 2021!