This Song Will Change Your Life Book Review

     I just finished this book called This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales. This book is a mix of teen fiction and realistic fiction. It is about a 15 year old girl named Elise Dembowski and how she believes that she was born to be unpopular. She explains how throughout the school years, less and less people want to interact with her. After all the years of being 'uncool', Elise takes the executive decision to remake herself into a new person. She gets rid of her old clothes, tries new hairstyles, attempts to listen to new music, and stays up to date with celebrity news. All of this doesn't work in the new school year and she doesn't become popular. Eventually, Elise starts to think that there is nothing left for her in this world and becomes suicidal for about a day.
     Elise's parents are divorced so they both live in different houses, that happen to be on the opposite sides of town. Seven months after she calls a girl named Amelia because she started cutting herself and Amelia called the police, Elise goes out in the middle of the night. She meets two girls, Vicky and Pippa, in an alley that was actually the entry way to night club called Start. There she becomes friends with the DJ, Char, and the bouncer, Mel. One Thursday night when Elise goes to Start, Char has to take Pippa home so he puts Elise in charge of the music. She only makes one transition to another song before he is back but she wants to learn more. Eventually, Char teaches her how to DJ better and she gets her own DJ equipment, and Char shares his Thursday night shift with her. This book is basically about how she struggles to keep her DJ life a secret but still manage to survive her 'unpopular' day life. She goes through struggles with new friends she makes at school, her family, her friends at Start, and especially with herself.
     Honestly, there were times when this book got me mad because sometimes some of the characters would do dumb things. Overall, I enjoyed reading it and I liked how at the end of the book the author describes the the different places and times Elise would play music and what songs she would like to listen to. I would recommend this book to people who like music, semi-quick reads, teen fiction, and realistic fiction. I say that this book is a semi-quick read because it can be a quick read if you read fast, but if not then it would only take you a couple of days. In conclusion, I enjoyed reading this book and I think that others would like to read it as well.