Review: UPDATED: 2.5 STARS -- Seems like a first draft
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2014
I have not yet read this book but was reading reviews to see if I'd like it.Found OBVIOUS duplicate reviews under different names here.Usually there are fake ones all over the place but here, they're actually WORD FOR WORD THE SAME REVIEW!!!So--I have decided to give this book 3 stars to begin.I will read it and come back and adjust, as warranted.Stay Tuned.REAL READER HERE********************************************************UPDATED:So I read the book.Daisy, a "regular", responsible sort of girl, agrees to go on tour with her fiancé as he helps manage his brother's band. Some pretty major stuff happens VERY quickly--some weird stuff I didn't see coming--and Daisy is soon torn between her fiancé, Landon, and his brother, guitarist Grayson. Who will win her heart?It was a good idea, and I always LOVE the rock genre. However, it feels like a freshman attempt at writing or as if it was done without an editor. The characters were good in the beginning but soon, they all started to sound the same. Daisy, supposedly a "normal" girl-next-door, in NO time is dropping F-bombs, dressing like a stripper, and giving the other band members crap like she grew up on a whaling ship or something. I'm not saying a girl couldn't or shouldn't do that, just that it's not how she is initially portrayed and she changes with lightning speed. Landon, who started out as the perfect, normal fiancé, morphs into...I'm still not sure what. But, like Daisy, changes too quickly and severely for me to believe Daisy wouldn't have seen it sooner.Also, her relationship with Gray happens SO fast, it was hard to believe. Insta love, ok, but the whole story felt rushed and forced. It just didn't flow in any organic way. And the dialogue didn't help. It was unrealistic and all too much the same. Half the time it was difficult to know who was talking.In addition, the plot kind of jumped around from idea to idea, some of it seemingly too engrossed in setting up future books to care what was happing in this one. It just felt choppy and didn't track most of the time.On the whole, this book definitely needs some more character development, better pacing, and another go at the plot. There are bits and pieces of a good book here but they never really come together.