Review: Feeling dazed and confused
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
So I really tried with this book! By the time I got half way through it, it was just excruciating to finish. I almost stopped at minimum 3 times but wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. I hate giving bad reviews but I have to because I wish I had read a review like this so I could have avoided it.Like:The concept. I liked the idea of a writer in a coffee shop meeting a rockstar unbeknownst to her. That was cute and I thought it could really go somewhere, that is until.....Dislike:Insta-love on overdrive-Many other reviewers have a problem with "insta-love" stories and usually I disagree because before reading this book any "insta-loves" described in other books happened over a couple weeks and for me I can deal with that, but this book was wayyyy too fast with the love. They literally met and it was like 'we're in love-lets share our darkest secrets and help me make huge life decisions' - umm seriously common!Are there pages missing??-I felt as I read it that I was missing pages of the story because it was too fast paced -yet somehow dragged out. The things that were overly described seemed monotonous ("the song" that's really a mystery to the reader I'll explain below) yet the actions and events seemed to be glazed over (rick and the bands past, this epic charity event, any real background on johnnie).Emo Man POVI find that it's difficult for a lot of the writers to write from a mans point of view and though there are "hearts and flowers" kind of guys out there this one was so over emotional I found it to be more of a turn off than endearing. It didn't seem realistic. Not because there aren't guys like that out there but this was wayyy too much upfront with a 48 hour relationship****SPOILERS AHEAD DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOWTHE SONG! (Most annoying topic in a book ever)This song is so epic yet all I know about it is what i just mentioned and that its acoustic - no lyrics, no background, no clue of what the hell it's remotely about. Oh except that Jess's secretly amazing voice is exactly what's missing on the track. Uhh I can't with this song! It will forever haunt me that I have no clue wth it was. I don't expect the author to be a song writer but I'm a huge rockstar romance fan and every book I've read even the worst ones at least attempted a few lyric lines or reference to what the song was about if one was mentioned. This song is the most suspenseful part of the book!The ProposalGod how do I even put this into words. I guess this reflects on my earlier comment about an "emo man's POV". I'm a hopeless romantic at heart I really am but if a man proposed to me by telling me he had picked this ring out years ahead of time after writing a song because he knew one day "the woman" for him would understand the song and his band -just from hearing the song- I would consider him neurotic. That is so weird to me. I know it was meant to be a romantic "aww" moment but it wasn't for me. I literally screamed out in my room 'you have got to be kidding me'.The Roller coaster endingSo after reading all this confusing, fast paced, craziness it ends with a cliffhanger but not pertaining to the actual couple in the book but another band member finding out he might had a child ....that just sealed the deal for me in this pot o'crazy storyI felt this book really had good bones to be a great book but just failed for me and I hate to say that because I love rockstar romances but this just didn't cut it.