A moving story about a girl, Steffi, that feels like a misfit. She forms an unlikely friendship with an elderly man who helps her to grow into herself. It's a sweet read. At times it seems like the language is a little disjointed.

A seriously lovely book that I wasn't expecting to be such a quick read. It's a great read for students who need that confirmation that life isn't always their small town. Their dreams can be bigger than their current boundaries. And life isn't always lived in a straight line.

I loved this book! The full review will be posted soon at kaitgoodwin.com/books! Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to connect books to their readers!

Such a refreshing read. A breath of fresh air in the genre. This book comes highly recommended by me.

I can't give a complete review because Did not finish this book. I was bored and I just couldn't make myself read it.

I thought this was a really cute coming of age story. Steffi has always been an outcast and never really fit it, but throughout the novel she finds her niche in the jazz community and really starts to embrace herself and her own music. The friendship between young Steffi and senior citizen Alvar is totally adorable and pulled at the heartstrings.

This book was a really lovely surprise. I'll admit that I wasn't really engaged in the story at the beginning, but before I knew it, I was completely sucked in!

Steffi Herrera is such a wonderful character. Right from the beginning, I felt a connection to Steffi, and I think that will apply to tons of readers. It's not that she's relatable in any specific way - it's more that there's just something inside her that speaks directly to you. Sure, you could put her straight into the cliché boxes of the loner, the one who gets picked on, the one who doesn't quite fit in with her peers, but she never feels like a cliché. She just feels like a person, just like all the best characters do.

I really loved the way this story was told. I love books that have multiple plotlines coming together, especially when one is in the present and one is in the past. This book takes that to a remarkable level, with one story being set in the present and the other in the 1940s. I'll admit that the transitions were a bit clunky - pretty much every time, some sentence would be repeated almost exactly, going from first-person dialogue to third-person narration. The two stories were mostly separate, but the ways that they fit together made both of them stronger.

This was a really good book, but I found myself wishing that it were a movie. The music in this book was so important that i really wanted to hear it accompanying the story, and there were so many scenes that I could envision perfectly in my head. I want to hear Steffi play bass. I want to see the 1940s nightclubs. I want to experience everything.

By the end of the book, Steffi, Alvar, and their stories had firmly worked their ways into my heart, and I'm sure they'll do the same for you.

This ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

“You reach a breaking point when you are tired of having to be the person your surroundings want you to be.”
- Wonderful Feels Like This, Sara Lövestam

Let’s begin with the obvious point, I gave this book a solid three starts. That being said I don’t think this book is absolutely amazing, it’s just left me at a state of ah. On one foot I felt that this book was a compelling fun, light hearted story that really had it’s unique quirks, humor, and style. Which was exactly what Iw as hoping for since the cover of this book is just so fun to look at!While reading the book I truly felt like I was understanding the personality of the book itself. Yes, I know I’m a weirdo for thinking that the book itself has a personality, but it does. The words the author use to describe the story really gave the book it’s own unique personality that i was starting to understand. The book, Wonderful Feels Like This, does earn it’s name because reading it does feel like you’re being transported into a wonderful feeling. But on the other foot I don’t feel like this story was unique to the genre of YA-reading.

There are so many different YA topics being published today, I just felt that the plot and the events of the story felt truly similar to the books that I have already read. This is really disappointed me since the synopsis really began to give me something that would have be been truly unique, refreshing, and even more earning of five stars. I just felt that the lack of delivering this new, refreshing concept was what was truly missing the mark. Even though, Wonderful Feels Like This, did not offer me what I was looking for it still manage to not only grab my attention but carry me the entire way! This is why I think this book would probably but more suited to a younger audiences, I’m 26 years old and I have read a lot of young adult which is probably why the concept of this story was not astounding to me, but I feel very much to someone who has not read as many books of the same genre would find this an amazing read, which it truly is.

What I love about this book is how beautiful it is written. The way the author, Sara Lövestam, manages to describe actions in the book will make you pause and re-read the sentence, just to appreciate the unique way Lövestam arranges her sentences to describe. There are times in which I will admit the sentence felt kinda lost, but I am going to blame that on the fact that the novel has been translated from Swedish.

Overall I felt that , Wonderful Feels Like, is a really great light read. It’s the type of novel that’s great to read for while waiting for you’re most anticipated series to final be released.

DNF at 30%

I am just not able to wrap myself around this one. The time period keeps switching randomly and it is so hard to follow. I have just lost interest in this book. Not for me, unfortunately.

Stopped reading at 25% I tried to give this a chance but it was so boring there's not much plott, it felt like it was more about the past then the present I thought the past tied into the present but I don't see how. I don't even know that much of what's going on in Safi's life nothing much happens in the scenes set in the present. It doesn't explain why the girls at school don't like her or establish her relationship with her family, It just jumps right into her meeting Alvar and the story he tells her. Their relationship isn't even set up well and it's the most important one in the book at least it's supposed to be.

The concept was good the idea of intertwining the past with the present and how music can connect us made this sound like it would be a feel good read, and it wasn't written badly. It was however exicuted poorly of course I didn't finish it so it could have gotten better but I just couldn't read any more the main reason is the transition between scenes and time was odd I often felt like I had missed something it's annoying to constantly reread sentences. Overall this just wasn't my cup of tea maybe if I was a musician I would have appreciated it more, I thought being a fan of music and sweet stories woukd have been enough.

I thought the Swedish names and translations might put me off or make the book less relate able, but that wasn't the case at all and I thought this book showed a really nice and interesting relationship between a young character and a much older character and in a way that wasn't at all cliche'.