Review: The good, the bad, and the ugly....
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
The good:  Decent premise, lost of talk about clothes and shoes.The bad: The main female character, Emily, is not likable.  She's a selfish, self-centered, immature, naive, shrew.  I mean, the girl ends up in tears during an argument in which her choice of underwear is criticized.  (I'm not joking.)The main male characters are... idiots. I think we're supposed to see them as passionate and flawed, but they're also selfish, and so clueless it's comical, but I don't think it's supposed to be.The main romance (Emily and Johnathan?) is ridiculous and completely inexplicable.Then there's the sexuality. We all start off straight, then we find out that Stacy is bi, no wait!  He's gay!  Emily's practically a virgin, no wait, she wants a one night stand, oh, she has a date with a lesbian!  Johnathan's a man whore, no he's committed to Emily, no he's screwing around with groupies.... on and on it goes.  No introspection, no discussion or agonizing, no growth, just BOOM! Sex happens and it's supposed to pass for love and/or relationship development.And then... Johnathan is a cocaine addict!  Out of pretty much nowhere.  We find out that all of the band members are addicts and so is Stacy and they all met in rehab?  Reaching much?The dialogue is not good, either.  Much of it is unbelievable and improbable.  There's a part where Johnathan has "tainted" his.... body; I laughed so hard I snorted.  Considering Emily and Johnathan were both utterly distraught in the scene, I'm pretty sure the humor was not intended.The Ugly:  The grammar, syntax, usage, punctuation.  It's really bad.  Periods in the middle of a sentence, then a sentence that should have been three or four.  Word order so insane that you actually cannot decipher what the author is trying to tell you.  Really bad syntax that leaves you befuddled and unclear on what's happening. The use of words that sound similar to (but are not homonyms of) other words are used and again, it's up to you to figure out what Logsdon meant to tell you.  Using the wrong word in situations of there,their, they're, or too, to, and two, and more.  This book did not seem to have been proofread, edited, or even looked over before it was uploaded.The Verdict:  The execution of this book is very poor. The idea sounds fun, and it could be a good story, but it's just really badly done.  I don't mean to savage the author, she just needs some training, a dictionary, and a professional editor.  I won't be reading the rest of this series and that's too bad. I love a good rock star romance; this isn't one.