This is a retelling of Cinderella! A high school graduate joins a local Quidditch league and finds the place where she belongs. Ellen has the perfect summer planned out until her nefarious step-mom grounds her. When her friends convince her parents to let her join the Quidditch team, Ellen is in for a surprise. It's not what she imagined it to be and she's training with other Harry Potter fans. Disclaimer: I got this book from @NetGalley and it's adorable.

This Is How We Fly is contemporary YA fiction focusing on a graduating high school senior, Ellen, as she navigates the summer before college. The description by the publisher that this is a coming of age story and a Cinderella story is fairly accurate.

It does seem like there is a lot of "drama" in this book. There is drama between Ellen and her friends. There is drama between Ellen and her family. There is drama among the Quidditch team members. So, if you like drama, this is a book for you.

Ellen is also wound really tight when it comes to issues. She cares so passionately about everything--feminism, gender-issues, the white misogynist patriarchy, the environment, veganism, etc.--that it causes her a lot of stress when other people do not value these issues at the same level she does.

The dialogue flowed naturally and the Quidditch element was a fun component, but this isn't a particularly fast-moving book and the drama issues did start to feel exhausting and tedious after a while.

Overall, I think this is a book that would appeal to some high-school upper class-men because the themes, the passion around causes, and the relationship issues will feel quite familiar and relatable to them.

Review of an Advance Digital Copy