Honestly, somewhere inside, my inner-nerd rejoiced at such a book. How much more do I love Jennifer Echols for placing these characters within a marching band. Embarassing confession? I always wanted to be in band. It seemed like such fun. Playing music, as a group... Never have I wanted that more since reading Major Crush. Drew and Virginia are utterly adorable and as the story progresses things really start to hot up between the two of them. There's a scene in the back of the bus that reminds me of a similar scene in Forget You. School buses, eh?

So, Major Crush begins with Virginia dropping out of the beauty pageant circuit and joining the marching band. She doesn't have many friends, but she still ties for drum major with hottie Drew. Drew and Virginia don't exactly get along and seem to have a little bit of shared history? Virginia seems to be keeping a few secrets of her own, like why she dropped out of pageantry. And Drew is under a lot of pressure to hold up the family traditions.

As always, there's something more going on besides the petty dramas of marching band and I did love all the side stories, with Virginia's best friend, her relationship with her family. I didn't quite get the pressure Drew was going through, with his whole family being drum majors before? Only because I've never heard of such a familal tradition! But still! Two thumbs up.