Review: thin plot, superficial characters and dialogue
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
This story started out ok. Arianna was a strong chick with a need to succeed in the music biz. She met Bryden and it was insta-hot between them. Then they are thrown together on the same tour. BUT they can't be together because Arianna has a "boyfriend", Brett, to whom she is being faithful. Who is this "boyfriend"? Oh just a guy everyone hates because he did something reprehensible. Oh and whom Arianna met once while she was vomiting drunk, then had a brief, group lunch with him and they spoke on the phone, maybe twice--all over a period of 10 days. THAT'S her "relationship" to which she must stay faithful. (BTW this all happens within the first 50 pages).For me, that really killed a LOT of the tension in the story between Bryden and Arianna. Her protestations of remaining faithful to Brett rang REALLY hollow and only served to underscore how shallow the plot and character development really was.Another problem was Arianna--supposedly a tough girl, she cried CONSTANTLY. Was a total train wreck almost half the book. I have no idea how she didn't get kicked off this tour. Or raped, or attacked in some way... It wasn't deep or compelling, it was just boring after a while.I started skimming two thirds of the way through and even considered just skipping the ending because that's how little I cared what happened to these people.Unfortunately, I DID read the ending and it was both predictable and annoying. I won't give anything away if you still want to read this book, but it pisses me off when women must give up something important in order to "heal." WHY? It's like women aren't allowed to "have it all." Why can't healing happen concurrently with other things? Unless you're a bartender and an alcoholic--where you need to give up your job, obviously--it just doesn't make sense to me.Anyway. Really didn't like this book. I had to force myself to finish it. Do NOT recommend.