Exile is not another glorified novel about rock stars and their groupies. But it's not just about music that marked my teenage years. um, references? You'll get it when you read the book. If you are music fan like myself, and if you appreciate '90 music scene, you will feel nostalgic because of all Nirvana. That will be hard because there's so much more to this story than what is described in the synopsis. How to describe Exile and not give away too many details? Hm. And no, you don't deserve a glare anymore.

Do you know it? When a song inhabits you, possesses you, and moves you like a marionette to its will?'ĭidn't you write this well, Kevin Emerson? But it goes for your book too - I was completely mesmerized. '.all together, it's doing that thing, he's doing that thing that a song can do. Kevin Emerson's Exile is a witty and passionate ode to love, rock and roll, and the freedom that comes in the moment when somebody believes in you, even if you're not quite ready to believe in yourself. Maybe it’s time to accept who she really is, even if it means becoming an exile herself. She knows what the well-mannered Catherine side of her would do, but she also knows what her heart is telling her.

When Caleb reveals a secret about his long-lost father, one band’s past becomes another’s present, and Summer finds it harder and harder to be both band manager and girlfriend. She also finds herself at the center of a mystery she never saw coming. Over tacos on lunch dates to far-off outlet-mall planets and during practices at the Hive with their new band, Dangerheart, Catherine - no, Summer - falls in love with Caleb. That thing when someone sings a song and it inhabits you, possesses you, and moves you like a marionette to its will. But Caleb Daniels isn’t an ordinary band boy - he’s a hot, dreamy, sweet-singing, exiled-from-his-old-band, possibly-with-a-deep-dark-side band boy. The never-skipping-class Catherine part of her knows, though, that falling for the lead singer of her latest band is the least professional thing a manager can do. Catherine Summer Carlson knows how to manage bands like a professional - she’s a student at the PopArts Academy at Mount Hope High, where rock legends Allegiance to North got their start.

Exile by Kevin Emerson