Wonderful Feels Like This by Sara Lövestam is a moving story about self-discovery, resilience, and the power of music. It follows Steffi, a teen struggling with bullying, who finds solace in jazz and forms an unexpected bond with a former jazz musician. With warmth and inspiration, it’s a perfect read for fans of character-driven YA that celebrates individuality and connection through art.

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.

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'.