2.5 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley and Shadow Mountain Publishing for the ARC!

I originally requested this book because I myself and am alto saxophone player, and I was delighted to find out that Lani has a silver saxophone just like me!

However, I felt like the plot was more of a concept of a story rather than a fleshed out novel. A lot of things happened, but also nothing happened. The author had something really good in theory with the parallel telling of the 8 Invincible Brothers alongside the plot, but it didn't really translate well. That could be because I was reading it on mobile. Maybe it's because I am a musician, but I felt the random spatterings of musical terms as adjectives were unnecessary and forced. I really liked the plot where Lani was invisible with her mom because of her younger brother, but it was really unrealistic for her mom to just acknowledge that and try and change herself. I felt like we needed more time and more stakes to really send that home.

Obviously, I am an adult, so I could be reading into this middle grade literature too heavily. I think if you give this book to younger middle grade kids (6-7th grade) they would probably really like it.