ARC Review - Drummer Girl by Ginger Scott

Synopsis:

Arizona Wakefield was a beat without a melody. Living a half-breathing life in a half-finished neighborhood with parents who always wore half-hearted smiles, the high school senior only had one thing that let her color outside her family’s perfectly drawn lines—her drums. 

Jesse Barringer was a song without a chorus. The son of a washed-up rock star who’s also one hell of a deadbeat dad, he was given two things from his father—musical genius and a genetic link to the bipolar disorder that drives him mad. 

One night in a garage at the end of a cul-de-sac in the middle of a bankrupt California neighborhood, Jesse’s melody found Arizona’s rhythm. An angry boy with storm-colored eyes found a blonde angel in Doc Martens with missing lines in her own story. Where her rhythm stopped, his words took over, and together, they wrote one hell of a story.


** Drummer Girl is a mature YA/New Adult romance that touches on mental health, drug abuse and includes mature sexual situations.

Review:

☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

I have racked my brain thinking of all the correct words to describe my feeling for this book and I'm going do my best. 



"It feels fragile, this budding friendship that's definitely more. People don't swat at butterflies, they tread lightly."



This book discusses the, sometimes really hard to talk about, subject of mental illness. It's not an easy subject, but one that needs to be talked about more. One that needs to be more normalized in conversation. This book comes at a time where people are becoming more open about talking about it, but we're all not quite there yet. This book is very important in time right now and just in general.


Ginger Scott brings up the subject so well in this book. Never once does she downgrade the characters feelings in this book or make jokes and make it seem less than it is. 


Arizona Wakefield has her own issues in her family, and within herself, when Jesse Barringer the son of a washed-up rock star moves in down the road from her.


Both of them find something special in the other. They find a connection to each other through music. 
I absolutely love the way this was done and how it was described. The way that both of them bond to each other and feel through the music was something magical to read. 



"Beautiful reckage. We all have our own lakes."



Like I said both of them have their own issues that they have to work through on their own, but they also make each other stronger. 


I don't want to go too into detail because this story is really one you need to read for yourself. 


Arizona and Jessies story is one of importance. A story of pain, hopelessness, struggle, love, and truly one of strength. 



"This is a slow, careful gift from a boy I find dizzyingly perfect despite all of his crazy. He doesn't pretend to be something he isn't. He's a genius, he's a wreck- he's my first."




The things and the lessons that you take away from this story are amazing. 


To this to date, this is my favorite story of Ginger Scott's and I feel like it should be read by everyone. 




*I received an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*