At her lowest point, a teen girl finds solace and a potential crush in her local theater’s mascot’s DMs, sparking a quest to uncover the true identity of this mysterious figure. From the bestselling author of The Magic Fish comes a new fairy tale romance with a twist.
What do you do when you’re the girl who can do it all, and suddenly you can’t?
After burning out last year, Angelica is ready to get her life back together. Thankfully she has amazing friends to support her…including Peri the Bear, the mascot of her town’s local theater. At her lowest moments, Angelica found comfort in private messaging Peri’s social media account, and well, she might have a bit of a crush. Now, Angelica is interning at the local theater in the hopes of finding the person beind the account and thanking them. Who was this mysterious stranger and why did they help her out? Was it just caring for a stranger…or did they feel the same connection that Angelica felt?
A cute teen story about grief, the act of grieving, and the way the world seems to crash down around you when you’re still in the middle of it. It can last so much longer than you think and still affect you years later even when you think you could be done.
But really, you build a life around that grief, don’t you?
It’s a good story, a love story, a friendship story, a grieving story, and it’s funny, cute, smart, simple. There’s layers to peel back that I don’t think I can manage to without reading a second time (and my timer was ticking on it, since I borrowed it from the QLL and I wanted to return it ASAP since I just sat on it for so long…). It addresses burnout and the many things that can happen to people when they grow and change…
Gods, though. It’s a lot packed into one little story about a giant bear and a princess.
