Review: Wonderful and Refreshing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
In Bloom was a refreshing change of pace. I have read many books centered around a “regular girl” falling for a rock star, but this story was one of my favorites. It was witty and fun and gave us a look at day-to-day life on the A-list. Olivia Bloom is an awesome character. She is the kind of girl you want to be best friends with. She proved herself to be strong, independent and secure in who she is over and over again. Berkeley is the frontman for Berkeley & the Brightside. His band has been a hit on the music scene for years and he is used to life in the spotlight. Thankfully he was a little older, a little wiser, and past his I’m-going-to-sleep-with-every-girl-I-meet phase. Parker and Blair make for hilarious best friends. They kept me laughing throughout the book with their antics and ridiculous conversations.I loved the integration of social media into this story. Every chapter begins with a few tweets sent back and forth between the characters. It was honestly one of my favorite things about the book. It gave me a piece of the characters’ personalities and helped to round out the characters completely. The plot was more than just another hot rocker with a girl back home who is sleeping with groupies and forgetting to call, forcing her to play out her insecurities and break up with him repeatedly. Both Liv and Berkeley had substance as characters and I respected and loved them for that. I really enjoyed their story and I can’t wait to meet the rest of the band over the course of the series!