Kayleigh's Reviews > Lemonade Mouth: Adapted Movie Tie-In Edition

So I watched the Disney channel movie of this book when I was a child and loved it so when I found out it was a book I obviously had to read it. This book was just so boring though. I rewatched the movie after reading this and I think the great thing about the movie is how fast it is. The book however takes so long to actually get started. You spend the first 100 or so pages just getting the characters to the detention that starts the whole plot of the book. After that it kind of picked up and kept my attention at least enough to finish. I also really disliked a lot of the characters. They get better as the book goes on but in the beginning I hated being in their heads because their innervoices are so self centered and they all think that they are better than everyone while also simultaneously thinking that they are the outcasts of the school. This book is also just a sign of the times when it was written it has racist, sexist, and fatphobic comments sprinkled throughout that really remind you that it is from 2007. Also this is a little nitpicky but for a young YA book this book had so many big words that I was stopping and questioning if this was really meant for children to read. I don't anticipate myself ever reading the sequel and unfortunately this is one of the times where I think the movie is better than the book.