i have got to stop picking up singer/song writer books
it is the RARE book that gets me to care about celebrities and musicians and this one kind of mii have got to stop picking up singer/song writer books
it is the RARE book that gets me to care about celebrities and musicians and this one kind of missed the mark. which is sad because the hero in this book, the musician, was not a complete tortured dick like most authors try to make their heroes for this particular trope.
this was just so painfully basic. it wasn't an awful read it was just boring. 2 kids with troubled pasts. heroine gets kicked out by drug addicted mom & awful step dad and goes work on a ranch with an up and coming singer. and then a lot of low stakes shit happens. not even a lot happens, i take that back.
on the one hand, grateful that this wasn't completely steeped in angsty singer cliches but also with none of the angst there was nothing to grab on to. i usually like brittainy's writing but the constant declarations of love by the hero rang really insincere and really rushed to me. and the heroine, while she was going through shit... it was just nothing i cared about.
this probably won't be the last thing i read from this author but i don't have the urge to pick anything else up from her for a while....more
so if you didn't already know, i waited for over a year for this book. i prayed and i waited and i wished for it to come to me swhere is the angst tho
so if you didn't already know, i waited for over a year for this book. i prayed and i waited and i wished for it to come to me sooner but alas. i still had to wait until october. and i'm a little bit disappointed.
i think the biggest issue i had with this book was that jax's character seemed so incongruous with the characterization he's given in the previous 2 books. he's the other lead singer & guitarist for Kill John and he attempted suicide before the events of the 1 books (these are standalones but they're all about one band). when we get to meet him he's really sullen and angry and angsty. and i was thrilled to read about a character who's obviously been through some shit.
but when we get in to jax/john's book we don't get that same level of anger. i understand that people have layers but we're thrown into him being almost completely recovered from his depression (which isn't even a thing? i digress) and just genuinely a nice guy now.
yeah we've got some flirting and tension between him and his new girl and he does question his worthiness a couple times. and there is one minor breakdown. but overall this was not the angsty, gritty, raw story that i had been hoping for.
and that might just be my own fault for having that expectation because objectively, if you hadn't read the previous 2 books, i think you would really fucking like this book. it's incredibly sexy, the characters have a playful banter and relationship that i could see people actually having in real life. and there wasn't needless drama thrown in either.
it really wasn't bad. it just wasn't what i needed it to be. and i didn't get the proposal of my dreams either... so 3 stars....more
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