A Rainbow Like You by Andréa Fehsenfeld – Review by Maisie Dickinson

A Rainbow Like You by Andréa Fehsenfeld
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Rainbow Like You follows Adrian ‘Jazzer’ Johnson, lead guitarist of famous band Size of a Scandal, on tour. He meets Hastings Sinclair, a thirteen year old with synesthesia who needs a ride to New Orleans and offers to help Adrian with his songwriting. I felt like the book was a bit problematic at times but overall it’s a lovely, heartwarming, original story. Adrian and Hastings develop an unlikely but beautiful bond, and the story explores themes of grief, heartbreak, but also love, friendship, and family. My favourite character was Hastings and my least favourite character was Jillian. I recommend this book because Adrian is a very complex character and A Rainbow Like You is a very original, unpredictable story. You can even listen to one of Adrian’s songs, which I think shows real commitment to writing from Andréa Fehsenfeld. “My father used to say, if you’re ever going to fail at something, Mackenzie, fail beautifully. It wasn’t the first time I told him he was full of it. How could failure be beautiful? It was ugly, wrong. You know what he said to that? He said it isn’t in the success we find out who we really are; it’s in the failures. If you consider all of this a failure, then so be it. Just remember you’ve failed beautifully.”

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