A review by alishalaurit
Forward March, by Skye Quinlan

emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The marching band aspect of this book was absolutely perfect and brought back many memories of spending evenings and weekends in the band room and on the field with my friends. The color guard rep made me sad though because it was all negative.

The plot of the story was interesting enough and I honestly didn’t know how the catfishing sub plot was going to play out. TBH, I’m extremely disappointed with how that wrapped up.
Spoiler Evelyn could have been the sole person responsible and the story would have wrapped up the same. I’m not sure why the author dragged Bellamy and Nadia into the scheme. It felt like there was all this relationship development throughout the book with those 3 and it was all torn down because nobody could say no to Evelyn? I don’t believe that. Both Nadia and Bellamy have stood up for Harper to Evelyn through out the book but none of them felt like doing anything about the catfishing? And for Nadia to say she did it because she was in love with Harper? Idk. Then Harper turns around and forgives both of them after all that. It just didn’t sit right with me.


I also wish we could have gotten to know more about Harpers life post high school. Her parents and teachers made a pretty big deal about what she was going to do after graduation and we just never find out. 
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