Review: On the bright side, it was free...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
Natalie and Layla are best friends. Their parents are best friends. Then the parents are in an accident together, and Natalie's parents are killed. So now, five years later, Natalie is broken and damaged and doesn't talk to anyone but Layla and hates the world. Layla drags Natalie to a concert at their college by her favorite hard rock band. Natalie hates the band but goes along. The lead singer, Ryan, sees her being miserable in the audience and decides to mess with her. She surprises him, then runs away, and he wants to break her (his words), so he bribes a professor into forcing her to be their intern for the summer tour, with plans to torment her.So, this is supposed to be a steamy romance? An egotistical rock star who flaunts the fact he can and does sleep with any woman he chooses is turned down by a depressed 20 year old with more defenses than the Pentagon. Of course, he wants what he can't have so he ruthlessly persues her, even interfering with her friendship with his best friend (although that friendship consists of two hugging sessions and a phone number exchange). The dialogue is cheesy, the editing is atrocious, and then there is the cliffhanger ending. It is supposed to be an emotionally charged cliffhanger, if the reader cared enough about the characters to feel emotions for them.More time should have been spent on character development and less on describing the drinks consumed by the band members. Oh, and keep the rock star's name straight - he is referred to with a different last name twice in the book, and that's not counting the aliases used at the hotel.This book, as it's written now, is not worth the time to read it. Oh, and Upstate is NOT a town in New York.