{"id":13682,"date":"2023-04-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13682"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:07:53","slug":"l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13682","title":{"rendered":"L is LOVE RADIO: advice, music, more? by Ebony LaDelle (YA book review) @A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Someday, he’ll be a hip-hop DJ and radio host.
Someday, she’ll be a noted writer on New York’s literary scene.
These days, maybe they can find time to find each other\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing relationship advice on the radio is a highlight of Prince’s senior year, so very full of helping his mom who has multiple sclerosis and caring for his 6-year-old brother Mook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dani has an iron-clad plan for getting out of Detroit: be accepted to a great college in NYC, earn her Master of Fine Arts in writing, and become an author who changes the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As their paths cross for the first time since middle school, Prince thinks he might have a chance with his long-time crush, but Dani is intent on her exit plan. She does give him three dates to change her mind about starting a relationship<\/a> – just three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweet, thoughtful dates – interspersed with her flashbacks to an awful incident some months ago and his mom’s medical needs and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you schedule falling in love?
When is a relationship past recovering?
What about a friend who lets you down one time too many? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told in alternating chapters by the two teens, including transcripts of Prince’s radio shows and Dani’s unsent letters to noted Black women authors as she struggles with writer’s block on her all-important admissions essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What love song would you play to ease someone’s heartache?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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