The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich : Music & Books OH MY!

The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: May 16, 2017
Rating: 4/5

Today's post is going to have a couple of my favorite things. Books and music. I am the kind of person that needs to have music on while I'm reading. It adds to the experience and music was such a fun addition for me while I was reading this book!

Here's a little bit about this book:

There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets.
Caden is a Nice: The boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection. Dylan is a Bad: The brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome. The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her. Will she choose a Nice or the Bad?
Both Caden and Dylan are living in the outside world for the first time. They are well-trained and at the top of their games. They have to be – whoever the girl doesn’t choose will die.
What the boys don’t expect are feelings that are outside of their training. Feelings that could kill them both.

This book takes all those tropes such as love triangles, teenage spies, good vs. bad guy, and turns it into something genius! This book was funny, unique, and everyone needs to read it! Some of my favorite aspects of this book were the pop culture references. Friends and How I Met Your Mother are two of my all time favorite shows and if you're a fan as well you will definitely pick up on the references that are weaved into the book. 

Along with shows there is a lot of music mentioned. Artists such as The Killers, Nicki Minaj, the Smiths and others artist/bands are mentioned. Music is everything. It makes you feel good. It helps you cope with difficult moments in your life. It pumps you up before and during your gym workout. Music is a universal language. 

I have found a few songs that I think fit perfectly with this book and so I have created a playlist for you to listen to while you read this book. 

The song I'm featuring in this post is a song I played on repeat while reading this book. It fits the two main characters Caden and Dyl perfectly! During their drives together late at night, this was the song that I heard in my head. 

These are some of the lyrics that I found fitting for their relationship:

"And we don't know what we're waiting for

And we don't know the truth anymore

And we can't see clearly through the fog

So we end up chasing ghost

Outside these walls we're criminals

They chase us down, we're singing hymnals..."

-Hymnals (RAC Remix) by Grizfolk

I am in LOVE with this song and I listen to it daily. I tend to get obsessed with songs and listen to them for a long time before I move on. 

Do you listen to music while you read or do you need quiet?


Be sure to check out my playlist below! 

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