Backstage

Center Stage! #0.5

by Caitlyn Duffy

Cassie thinks she may have met the boy of her dreams . . . just a few weeks before he becomes the dream guy of every girl in America. High school senior Cassie Walters has attended more high schools than she can count as she’s hopped all over the country with her mother since freshman year. She’s passed through so many classrooms and hallways that she doesn’t even bother making friends anymore, because she considers it a waste of time. But everything changes when a teacher convinces her to attend a drama club meeting, and she meets a guy named Elliott with an incredible voice who aspires to become a contestant on a reality television show. In this novella prequel to Duffy’s latest full-length novel, Center Stage!, Duffy invites readers to return to the world of The Rock Star’s Daughter and its beloved characters.

Genres: Amazon

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 2015

About the author

Caitlyn Duffy is a Brooklyn-dwelling, chihuahua-lovin' freelance writer, who is currently developing a series of YA novels for Lovestruck Literary around the celebutante students of a fictitious boarding school.

Reviews

[Debbie is on Storygraph · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the author's Center Stage so queued this up to read on the plane back to DC today. It was cute but seemed more like the opening few chapters to a novel instead of a self-contained novella. I wasn't expecting much since I knew it was supposed to be a story about a very minor character who was only mentioned in Center Stage, but I felt myself growing very invested in Cassie. Unfortunately, the novella ended just when it seemed like her story was starting to take off.

Hopefully Duffy will give her a full story in the future.

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I genuinely like the characters portrayed in this prequel to Center Stage. The storyline is interesting, with characters who have a lot more going on underneath than their surface "public" personas show. I'm really looking forward to reading Center Stage when it comes out to see the outcome of the singing competition and to see what happens with Cassie and Elliott and how both Elliott and Allison will cope with the contest.

[Shay · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars