I will always read everything Jeff Zentner writes. His first two books, The Serpent King and Goodbye Days, are two of my favorite books. I can now add Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee to that list of favorites. Zentner has a way of writing characters that makes them so alive, so real, that you feel like you know them. Rayne and Delilah's Midnite Matinee is a simple story of friendship, but it is also complex in its simplicity. Zentner examines the nuances of friendship, and how they survive, by creating two vibrant, intelligent, hilarious teenage girls. Readers who pick up this book with fall in love with the main characters and will want to read the book again as soon as they finish it.

Lovely story of two girls finding out what it means to follow a dream...and what new beginnings and endings feel like.

Loved the side characters and the weirdness of the Orlando visit. I think teens will enjoy!

I loved this story of friends who did a TV show and going through different things in their lives from finding a dad to romance. Loved the friends and manager :) Great story and loved that it was in different point of views.

What a great read! So much fun! Will have you laughing out loud and wondering how Zentner thought of such things and then gets serious and deep and has you reflecting. Loved it.

A funny and poignant YA book about friendship and making your way in the world. Jackson, Tennessee High School seniors Josie Howard and Delia Wilkes are best friends who created and host their own public access television show. Midnight Matinee is a campy creature-feature complete with dorky attire, low budget “so-bad-its-good” horror movies, and two delightfully risible, costumed, witchy hosts named Rayne and Delilah.

As BFFs Josie and Delia work through what will happen to the show and their friendship after high school, the action is peppered with a search for a long-lost, deadbeat, dad; a cartoonishly over-the-top sequence with a has-been film producer and his Russian mafia sidekick; a slowly developing love story with the world’s greatest guy and wannabe MMA champion; and plenty of (gratuitous?) butt and fart jokes.

The writing is good — some hysterically funny live and text-based banter (the collection of one-line descriptions of country music alone is worth the price of admission) mixed with heartfelt scenes of connection, questioning, and resolve.

Great for fans of John Green.

Intelligent, funny, quirky, and beautifully written. I love the way Jeff Zentner writes friendships, and how he develops characters that you wish were real people. Definite must-read!