Book Review: Lights, Camera, Fashion!

Book: Lights, Camera, Fashion! (Sew Zoey book #3) by Chloe Taylor with artwork by Nancy Zhang and cover artwork by Laura Roode

Edition: Paperback

Description:

What Will Zoey Choose: The Dance or The Dream?

Zoey's school is having a dance, and everyone is talking about who to ask (and what to wear)! Zoey sews special dresses for her friends Kate and Priti, and the girls make a pact to ask their crushes.

Things seem all zipped up...until Zoey gets a phone call from her favorite reality show, Fashion Showdown! The producer reads the sew Zoey blog and wants Zoey to be a guest judge on an upcoming episode. It's a fashion fairy tale! Then reality hits: The show taping is on the same day as the dance.



Rating: 4 stars

Review:

In Lights, Camera, Fashion!, 12 years old Zoey Webber and her three best friends Kate Mackey, Priti Holbrooke and Libby Flynn were excited and about their middle school's upcoming dance. However, Zoey, Kate and Libby were anxious because it was a Sadie Hawkins dance meaning the girls were the one who had to ask someone to the dance. Priti didn't share the other girls stress and worry, she was full of confidence and knew exactly who she wanted to asked to the dance. There was a boy Zoey was thinking of inviting to the dance but she was so scared and stressed out just thinking about it she was not sure she would have enough courage to ask him.

Nerves and excitement aside, Zoey planned to make amazing dresses for her and her friends and write about it on her blog Sew Zoey, which is surprisingly popular. Zoey really loves fashion and is always sketching or designing unique pieces. Her fashion sense isn't always appreciated at school where she is sometimes teased for it.

The excitement Zoey had for the dance couldn't even compare to how she felt when she was invited to be a guest judge on her favorite fashion reality show, Fashion Showdown! When the original guest judge, a high school student wasn't able to do the show, the Producer Rashida Clarke contacted Zoey to be a judge for the show's high school prom dress challenge. Despite only being in the 7th grade, Zoey's fashion blog was already gaining substantial following of readers and fans.

Zoey was ecstatic about the opportunity to be a guest judge that is until she found out the taping for the show was on the same day as the dance and by the time the show finished filming she would be too late to attend the dance. She knew being a guest judge on Fashion Showdown! was a fantastic opportunity but she also doesn't want to miss out on hanging with her friends at the dance.

This was a fun and almost fairy tale like story with Zoey having to make a choice of whether to go to the dance or appear on the show. There is a Cinderella moment for Zoey that I think will put a smile on readers faces because it really was something nice that happened to her.

Although it's been a while since I read anything from this series, I like the Sew Zoey books because they tend to show that it's okay not to fit in, all that matters is being yourself. Along with not worrying about what others think of you and the importance of family and friends.