Review: What a Joke!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
It's books like Drive Me Crazy that are destroying the rock-star romance sub-genre.Drive Me Crazy is painfully boring for the first half of the book. Almost nothing happens. There is barely any spark or chemistry between Quinn and Elise. In fact he seems to take pity on her more than anything. NOT sexy at all and that's a huge problem since this is supposed to be a ROMANCE. There is zero romance and zero chemistry between these two. Childish pranks and friendship? Yes. Sexual tension? Not so much. Quinn's idea of a fun prank is to have his love interest be forced to parade around naked in front of his bandmates. Huh? Yeah, I really feel the heat and attraction!What was most offensive to me was that  "Shaken Dirty" is supposed to be "the hottest rock band on the scene" whatever that is supposed to mean. Instead, Drive Me Crazy (hey wasn't that a Britney Spears song???) read like an old lady's view of what the music "scene" is these days. I felt like she must be remembering back to when New Kids on the Block was the big deal. The author seemed to have zero grasp of what the "rock scene" really is these days and it was painfully obvious. Shaken Dirty is such a generic rock band. Are we talking Metallica? One Direction? Nickleback? The Rolling Stones? Motley Crue? Pierce the Veil? Avenged Sevenfold? All huge in their respective "scenes" all extremely different types of music, bands, fans and income. Since Quinn used a stylist and had no problem with his motorcycle being bedazzled, I'm going to assume this was based on some sort of boy band.Oh my god, as if that wasn't headache inducing enough, the conflict is paper thin and BORING. Elise fell and bumped her head when they were kids so Quinn is terrified she will fall and bump her head again. That's the extent of "their past coming rearing back to haunt them." seriously, yawn. Oh, and Quinn's dad was mean.What should have taken me 4 hours to read took me like 4 days, this was so boring. I realize Tracy Wolff is a "best selling" author and I'm sure her other books are lovely, but this was so awful, I don't think I can pick up another book with her name on it. I'm assuming all the glowing reviews are from people who received the book for free from Brazen's publicity department and would like to continue receiving free reads, because I don't know how any one could read this drivel and not roll their eyes. I felt robbed at .99 cents and I definitely wouldn't pay $2.99 or whatever the current price is.