I recommend this book for anyone who loves Broadway musicals and a good mystery. Millie was a pretty unlikable character at the start of the story, but I quickly grew to love her!

Thank you to Netgalley and MacMillian for an eARC of this book.
From the author of Tweet cute, this book is a gender bend Mamma Mia retelling. Following Milly who has never known her mother and find some old journal posts from her father about three women who could potentially be her mother. She decides to go undercover to meet all three of these women and to find out which one is her mother. In order to get to know one of her potential mothers, she decides to take on this internship where she is forced to work with her arch enemy Oliver.
First off I really enjoyed the character of Millie, and absolutely loved all the Mamma Mia references. I was very curious how they would do this as a gender bend version and I thought the author did a good job with that. Where the story was lacking and I think I would’ve enjoyed it more is if there was a little more focus on the romance and relationship developing between Millie and Oliver. Especially considering they are enemies and it is essentially a enemies to lovers trope there really needed to be more development. I found that we didn’t get enough of the relationship growth between the two characters which made the ending between them a little unrealistic. I just didn’t really feel a connection between the two.
Overall, it was a good contemporary read but I expected more.

This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

I adored this book. Millie is such a fully developed character and you find yourself rooting for her throughout. As a Broadway fan myself, I loved all the theater and showtunes references. The book, while generally a feel-good story, deals with mental health, unwanted pregnancy and issues of abandonment in a fresh and thoughtful manner.

Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press/ Wednesday Books for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

This book is a theater kid book for sure but not have been one I still love it now I don't get the references but I love the story line it a mamma Mia themed going but with a twist. Millie Not my fave she very over the tope at times, but i still feel for the girl. She makes mistakes and learns from them. God I want to gush about this books but i wont because of spoilers. so I'm going to finish with this it was slow at times but I still love this book.

3.5 stars.
While this isn't my favorite Emma Lord book, it's still a pretty cute story. Millie's relationship with her dad is a sweet one and I loved all of their talks together. Millie comes across old Livejournal entries by her dad that talks about her absent mother. She figures that there are three possible women that could be her mother so she decides to take the summer to see which one it is. As she describes it, it's a "Millie Mia" situation but real life isn't a charming musical. Despite her desire to be a Broadway star and someday be in a musical. In her quest to get to know her possible mothers, she takes a Broadway dancing class, is in contention for an internship, and bonds with her possible half-sister. There's also butting of heads between a male classmate of hers that morphs into something else entirely during the summer. The story is sweet and entertaining where the family relationships are the strongest part. I would recommend it if you're looking for a light YA read.

If you love NYC, Broadway, musical theater and some cute high school romance, you will adore this book. Living only an hour away from the city, I could picture the places and imagine it all playing out.

Millie Price is a girl on a mission. After an embarrassing video from when she was 10 is starting to lost its influence on her theater dreams, Millie is determined to be accepted and attend a musical theater high school in California. Her father is not on board with this dream. As a single dad parenting with his sister, he is especially attached to Millie and doesn't like the idea of her being so far away. And then there's the question of who her mom is. When she stumbles across an old online diary of her father's, Millie decides to take her summer and narrow down between 3 possible suspects that still live in the city. She takes on a job, dance lessons, and more to figure this out. And then there's her arch-nemesis who is trying to take her internship away from her. It's just so cute!! I would definitely let my teens read this one.

Thanks to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Millie Price really wants to be a Broadway star. When she gets into a pre-college acting program she thinks this is her big break, but her father doesn’t want her to go to school across country. Millie decides to track down the mother who abandoned her as a baby to get her approval. This leads her to an unexpected internship, the possibility of a half sister, and dreaded dance classes, but which of these ladies is her mother? And why did she leave Millie with her father after having her.

I really enjoyed this book and loved the gender bending take on Mamma Mia. There are so many Broadway references throughout the story which I loved. NYC was the perfect setting for this book, and I loved how the internship took Millie and her nemesis, Oliver, all around it.

There were so many great characters in this book like Teddy, Millie’s best friend, Oliver, her rival, and Heather, her aunt. My biggest issue was Millie. I found her “Millie moods” to be a bit much and didn’t love how dramatic she was. I know that’s how her character is meant to be, but I really preferred the parts of the story when she wasn’t over the top.

I loved Oliver and Millie’s relationship throughout the book and seeing them go from enemies to friends to maybe a bit more. I also liked that this storyline wasn’t the main focus of the book, but was just the right amount of romance and focused on the growth of both characters.

Although I was able to figure out who Millie’s mom was, it didn’t ruin the book for me. This was my first Emma Lord book, and now I’m excited to read her others.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review. This book is available now.

So fun and sparkling for any theater, New York, or Mama Mia lovers. I loved the mom mystery and it kept me guessing until the end.

This was a really cute and quick read. Definitely a case where everything lines up perhaps a little too perfectly for the main character. The highlight for me was the relationship between her and her dad.

Thank you St. Martin's Press for sending me an advanced copy of When You Get The Chance by Emma Lord. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Hi, can Millie Price be my new best friend because she is everything amazing talented and cool about theatre nerds (and I should know, I am one!). Millie and her moods make me want to give her the biggest hug ever. and who doesn't love that cover?? A beautiful lovely inspiring novel of growing up, down, in and away. I want to say more but I can't begin to describe how beautifully hearted and talented Emma Lord is with her writing.

I love St. Martin's Press it's one of my favourite publishing houses and they continue to release incredible writing I can't wait for everything they do next.

In general, I’ve found myself avoiding YA for a while now. The characters are often melodramatic to a fault and unlikable. I find them far too exhausting to read. The conflict is avoidable and the emotions are forced. Emma Lord’s writing is NOT that. She writes teenage characters with just the right amount of melodrama (because, let’s be real, teenagers ARE melodramatic). Their emotions are BIG and their problems are big, to them at least. They’re not cliches, they’re just very young people learning to navigate the world around them the best they can. Millie is no different. She wasn’t my favorite character, and was insufferable at times, but she does grow quite a bit throughout the story. Oliver is sweet and grounding, Teddy is a solid best friend, the side characters they meet along the way are fun. I saw the big twist coming but I don’t think it was overly obvious.

This was a cute YA contemporary story! I really liked the main character, Millie, and her search for her mom. At times I felt that the story relied a little too heavily on the reader knowing about the plot of Mamma Mia, which I could see detracting from some reader's enjoyment of this one. Millie was an interesting main character and I liked seeing her come into herself as the story went on. I also really enjoyed the entire ensemble cast, especially Teddy, Oliver, and Chloe. I do wish we explored their characters more outside of Millie, but they made up a good group of friends and love interests. Plotwise, it was a pretty standard YA story with a slight Broadway twist. That is to say, it was a quick and easy read but still entertaining. I wanted a little more from the search for Millie's mom, and the ending I thought was pretty predictable.

Overall, this was a quick and fun read!

3.5 stars. Sweet YA rom com with a nod to Mamma Mia! Loved Millie’s friendship with the neighbor across the hall obsessed with geocaching. Loved her relationship with her dad and aunt. The search for her birth mom was a little far fetched (how did her dad not tell her the mom’s name?) and it all buttoned up a little too perfectly to be even remotely realistic. I do feel like theater kids (middle school and high school) would absolutely love the show references and all the things these New York City kids get to experience.

“𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪’𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.”

𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖: in a book inspired by mamma mia - millie price is trying to convince her father to let her go to madison musical theatre precollege program all while trying to find her birth mom.

𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒: i just want to give this book a big hug. this one was so much fun to read. millie’s energy and passion for what she loves was so adorable. i also really loved the fun mamma mia spin this book had where millie had three potential people she thought could possibly be her mom. there were so many broadway/theatre references so if you are someone who loves broadway i think you would recognize tons of the references in this one. there was also a cute little romance thrown in here between millie and oliver which i adored.

Thank you so much to Emma Lord, Wednesday Books & NetGalley for a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I absolutely loved this book. I love the theatre kid center of it, and especially the Mama Mia theme throughout. Emma Lord does a great job with giving you all of the feels in her novels, and When You Get the Chance was definitely full of emotion and heart. I loved all of the various relationships throughout the novel, not just the other characters relationship's with Millie, but their relationships with one another. This was a lighthearted book with a little bit of heavy subject matter as Millie tries to find her mom, but I think it was done in a way without making it feel too heavy to read.

A sweet story about a high school junior who uses the summer to try to convince her dad to let her go to an early college for musical theater. She also dicovers her dad's LiveJournal and begins a Mamma Mia like quest to try and find her mom - is it Steph, the actor turned secretary, Beth, the creator of a Broadway club, or Farrah, the dancer? It was a sweet story but I have actually preferred Emma Lord's other novels even as a big Broadway fan.

Emma Lord is one of my favorite YA authors. Her writing is the perfect mix of fun and lightness that makes reading so enjoyable. The characters are always mature, yet not too much so for the age group. Her stories are grounded in such reality. She will forever be one of the YA authors I recommend to anyone looking for sweet stories to warm their hearts.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Millie Price dreams of becoming a Broadway star and living in NYC with her dad and aunt is the perfect place to start. However, she has bigger ideas and wants to attend a precollege program that will take her out of state, but her dad isn't on board with her plan to move across country to attend this school. Millie devises a plan to find who her mom is and maybe get her on board with her precollege program.

I'm reminded of the tv show Glee and Millie is Rachel. It's a lighthearted quick read that leaves you feeling happy.

Fantastic book! I ended up listening to the audiobook, and loved it. I think any Emma Lord fan will devour this one! I will definitely be recommending it to patrons.