Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for early access to this title in exchange for my honest feedback!

This is the kind of story that you get lost in; you fall in love with the characters as their adventure unfolds and when you reach the end and know how things are wrapped up, you can’t help but feel like you’re saying goodbye to a friend.

What stood out to me the most was how both Darren and Decklee fought for what it was they wanted, yet the final outcomes couldn’t be more different. It (in my opinion) showcases how the people you love and care about hold such a strong connection to you and that truly means the world.

A story I’ll be thinking about for a long time for sure!

Thank you Penguin Teen and Viking Books for the #gifted ARC and thank you PRH Audio for my #gifted listening copy of Every Time You Hear That Song! #PRHAInfluencer #PRHAudioPartner #PenguinTeenPartner

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬
𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬: 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

★★★★★

Oh my heart! Jenna Voris you have stolen my heart! This is a YA book that will resonate with so many people. There are so many themes explored in this book, including friendship, fame, love, queer identity, and so much more. This one is so worth the read! This is guaranteed to be one of my favorite YA books of the year!

I don’t often cry when I read books, but this one brought tears to my eyes. It’s the type of book that I will read again and that I will recommend to YA readers, and even adult readers. I truly adored this book and the characters just stole my heart and I just found it to be so well done. Every Time You Hear That Song is beautiful. It’s heartwarming. It needs to be read.

🎧I alternated between the physical book and the audiobook, which was narrated by Emily Lawrence and Allison Strong. Let me tell you, these two NAILED it. They were so perfectly casted for their roles and I loved my time listening to them bring their characters to life. I highly recommend the audiobook if you enjoy listening with your ears. I promise, you will not be disappointed with either format!

🎸YA Queer Contemporary Novel
🎸Dual Timeline
🎸Small Town
🎸Road Trip
🎸Coming of Age

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Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris was an absolute amazing story.
A charming coming of age story that was incredibly hard to put down.
The author created great characters that I feel in love with. This book is perfection overall, but I think my favourite element in it was the characters. I just couldn't help getting attatched to them.
A charming queer YA romance that I believe most will just totally love!

Thank You NetGalley and Viking Books for Young Readers for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

I think books that center around singers/rockstars/musicians just aren’t my cup of tea.

I tried, I really did try to get into this book but it wasn’t my favorite. I didn’t hate it either though, it was just okay.

Don’t take my word for it though, give it a chance. Just because it wasn’t for me, doesn’t mean others won’t enjoy it.

I would still recommend people to read this book, especially if they like books that have to do with singers and musicians.

I was given this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I really enjoyed this read! The cover was giving me Dolly Parton and the premise was giving me Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I was invested in the story of Decklee and Mickenlee Hooper and even as a non-country music fan, I was drawn into the lyrics and the history and the scavenger hunt mystery and wishing the music was somewhere real for me to listen to. The one takeaway I’ll give, which was actually my similar feedback for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s work is that I was more invested in who the MC was writing/learning about than the MC themselves. I wasn’t invested in Kendall at all unfortunately and I don’t know why. She was likeable and relatable, but I wasn’t rooting for her or her road-tripping Beau. I wish they were peeled back and this was entirely about Mickenlee and Decklee from start to end

Thank you to NetGalley for approving me to read this ARC. I have to be honest, I wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did. I of course requested it because I was interested, but I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I enjoyed the back and forth POVs, and how everything in the book connected. There wasn't anything mentioned that didn't add to the storyline or explain part of it. The author made me feel like I was on this road trip with Darren, and felt like I was traveling with Decklee. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to a friend who wants a light, romantic read with some nice LGBTQ+ representation.

I was all in on this book when I read it was scavenger hunt with a country music twist. But I had no idea what was truly in store for this reader. Dual timelines, unlikable characters, said mystery hunt, I couldn't get enough of all the complications. Voris wrote a truly engrossing coming of age tale that goes beyond your barely conceived expectations.


Thank you to PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group | Viking Books for Young Readers, and NetGalley for providing an eARC for a honest review.

I loved the road trip aspect and the way friends might not even know each other until they’re together on a road trip! I also really enjoyed the historical flashbacks with Decklee! I’m gonna think about this book for years!

As someone who is a hard sell on a road trip story, I really enjoyed this! Every Time You Hear That Song is a nice blend of queer coming of age story with a light mystery element, and queer historical fiction.

A famous country singer- Decklee Cassel has died and left behind a scavenger hunt of clues leading to unpublished music and a cash prize. Darren is a teen journalist and huge fan, and she goes on a road trip to find clues with her co-worker. Then we flash back to the 1960's as Decklee is fleeing her hometown and getting her start, but sidelining relationships in her pursuit of fame and public adoration.

I was invested in both timelines and they wove together nicely as the story slowly unfolds. A very solid YA novel that will probably appeal to a lot of readers! I received a copy of this book for review from the publisher, all opinions are my own.

I loved this! As a Bisexual woman who grew up in the South parts of this really hit home. This book is a perfect mix of heartwarming and heartbreaking. It’s a very quick read that I only put down to wipe tears out of my eyes. I can’t wait to pick up a physical copy.

*Thank you so much to NetGalley and Penguin Group for the e-ARC!

This book felt like if you created an alternate version of Dolly Parton, who was the most despicable and unbearable person on the planet, and her tornado of historical chaos was being chased down by two one dimensional teenagers in a Shein version of National Treasure.

Also, the names in this book made me want to die. I refuse to believe anyone, let alone multiple people, would voluntarily choose names like that to live and die by.

Thank you to Netgalley and Viking Books for Young Readers for the advanced copy.

(4.5)
A perfect small town coming of age story with a road trip and set to country music. I was intrigued by this book since discovering it a few months ago. I’m a big fan of country music and this felt a love letter to what country music and what women in country music can accomplish.

We follow two POVs; Darren, a girl who feels too big for her small town of Mayberry. She knows she wants to get out and cannot stay there forever. Decklee, who in the 1960s left the same small town for a chance to make it as a country superstar.
After Decklee passes away, she leaves a quest for her fans to discover a time capsule.
Darren, who has loved Decklee’s music joins up with her co-worker Kendall for a road trip to find the time capsule and discover more about themselves along the way.

We see Darren drive across the south in search for clues to where the hidden time capsule could be. While also getting Decklee’s POV of her rising career, and seeing how much Decklee wanted to be famous and what she was willing to risk it for.

Without getting into any spoilers, it was truly a joy to read this book. I also found myself getting emotional with Darren and Decklee’s stories. These women were so similar in so many ways and to see the dual timelines was really special.

I really enjoyed this book and it is definitely one that will stick with me.

Thanks again to Netgalley and Viking Books for Young Readers for this advanced copy.

This was a fun book for sure! I do like Jenna Voris's writing style, I think she can write humor and that is a difficult thing to do. Her characters all feel so human, and Darren for sure was very relatable.

For once, I didn't feel like the romance was my favorite part of the story. I liked Darren and Kendall's budding romance, and the homoerotic breakup of Decklee and McKinlee, however, I thought the themes of queerness and still feeling loyalty to your small town even after it burns you much more interesting. I also found the mystery very compelling, and it kept the pace exciting throughout.

I dare to say that if you like the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, you will like this, I feel that it had a lot of the same themes and story beats. However, this was definitely a YA book, which is why I think I struggled, because I have a hard time with contemporary YA books because I have a hard time relating to their struggles.

Overall, I had a good time with this book, and there were some pretty strong parts, but I don't think it will stick with me like some other books.

I absolutely adored this book. I essentially read it in one sitting. I loved how honest and true the book was. Darren and Kendall were amazing. Decklee was everything and nothing I expected. This book was so incredibly good

When I saw this book was about country music and it had a sapphic love story that was honestly all the information that I needed to read it. I really liked it. Both timelines were great stories and all of the characters were pretty interesting. Definitely would recommend it!

Fantastic book by Jenna Voris. She has created another world you just want to live in and experience for yourself. You will fall in love with these characters and their story.

Thank you to Penguin Group and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

While I was intrigued by the idea of this book, I didn't expect to enjoy it this much. The two timlines and the two main characters were complimentary to each other, but also showed how both Darren and Decklee were driven by different motivations. I also enjoyed that Decklee wasn't a good person - this made her a more realistic character and I would have prefered to see more of her.

While I wasn't keen on the Darren/Kendall romance (give me more friendship based relationships!), I liked how the author concluded their arc.

The reveals were quite obvious for me, but I still enjoyed the book. A fun and emotional read for all the country fans (and for those that aren't)!

this book was so interesting to me! definitely not what i was initially expecting but i still enjoyed it. i definitely feel like i need to re-read this knowing what i know now to see what clues i may have missed about a certain identity.
thank you jenna for the physical arc via ig giveaway❣️

This book is like if Dolly Parton were secretly a lesbian, with a huge dash of Rocketman and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but without the contrived extra twist at the end, so obviously I ate it up. I love the dual POV, the historical aspect of it and the whole road trip/scavenger hunt was very fun. It also made me super homesick for Nashville and wish I could hear the songs (although lbr making music from books translate to IRL isn’t the easier thing to do).

I like that Decklee isn’t a ~nice character, she’s ambitious and willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants and honestly…kind of is a straight up asshole! I like that there was no neat happy ending for her, she got everything that she ever wanted career-wise, but at what cost.

I guessed the ~reveal a little bit before it happened, but that’s a good thing! It’s always nice when a reveal makes everything fall into place, rather than come out of nowhere and again I loved the realism that there was no happily ever after love story, despite writing a final album together. I did NOT guess who Dani was though, and that was a great Easter egg.

I don’t have as much to say about the present day storyline, but Darren was a really great character and she and Kendall were cute. The way Darren was written as a bi character was so real and realistic and her struggles with how she feels about Mayberry/wanting to get out etc was a great part of her story arc. The ending made me cry, and I really enjoyed the book!

Thanks to NetGalley and Viking Books for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an ARC of this story
SPOILERS TO FOLLOW

I didn't expect to like this story as much as I did. I'm not much of a country fan and the idea of a scavenger hunt road trip didn't really appeal to me but I decided to give it a shot! I was really glad actually that Darren wasn't the one who found the time capsule. It would've felt unrealistic to me if she was the one to figure everything out/find all the clues. Her finding the first one was great but I fully expected her to overall loose the competition. Having her loose was a good climax for the story so she could look inside of herself and think about what Mayberry really means to her/what is really important to her in life.

I also expected, since Decklee was a really big star with millions of fans, that Darren wouldn't be the only one to come to these kinds of conclusions about where the clues might be. Not everyone would've been able to put it altogether obviously but having other people be able to figure out the clues as well alongside her made the most sense in that situation. Having Darren be wrong about the last clue in particular was really great too because I was also fully convinced that the last clue would be in Mayberry because that's where Decklee was from/where Micknlee ended up. When the time capsule showed up in Nashville, in front of the studio, it really captured how in the end, Decklee was only thinking of herself and what kind of impact she would have and not the people who helped make her in the industry and who tried to love her.

Ending the story with Darren talking about how she and Kendall broke up was also very realistic. Honestly, if they'd stayed together I would have probably rated it lower. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them together. They were a cute couple but Kendall didn't want to leave Mayberry and Darren couldn't stay. It wouldn't make sense for them to try to force something that ultimately wouldn't work and leave one of them miserable.

Ultimately, the road trip Kendall and Darren took was really fun. their personalties really shone through everything and I liked how they were able to stop and have fun on top of searching for clues. I was also glad that Darren made some really good apologies to the people she hurt in the book. It really put into perspective how AWFUL of a person Decklee was. (I really didn't like Decklee. I could understand wanting to be something BIG and be remembered but you don't have to step on all the people who helped you get there). The contrast between both girls was great so I really enjoyed the dual POV's even if I didn't like Decklee herself.