Review: Not On Par With Just One Song but a Decent Book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
I read Just One Song and Just One Week in one day but I have to say there was an issue with this book that definitely brought the rating down.This book is about Mia who you met in Just One Song as Nicole's best friend and sister of the heart and Chase, the drummer in Zach Walters band. These two have been hooking up with a no strings attached friends with benefits relationship but it is no longer enough for Chase.Mia is a very confused young woman and has been through some trauma in her life that shaped her idea of relationships,,,and not for the good. She keeps secrets and hurts others in the process. Then she has a major health scare that rocks her world as she faces surgery and the unknown. She has kept this from Chase and her friends and is determined to go it alone. She does not want to be a burden and affect the lives of others with her illness as her mother's health battle did.ALERT...SPOILER AHEAD! Stop reading if you don't want a few facts about why this author and this book was disappointing to me.Chase is in love with Mia and wants to be with her always but she draws him in and then pushes him away, fighting to protect him from her health scare and what she feels is an avoidable future that she thinks wrecked her family. Here is where the book failed for me. Chase gave her his undying love and promised he would never ever stop chasing her, trying to win her over. But then he lets his head think all kinds of stupid, untrue stuff and decided to hook up with someone he just met, to move on and leave Mia behind!!! Is that true love? Is this what you do to the woman you love more than your life? What in the heck happened to the man who swore she was IT for him? Where is that gentle giant of a man who told her just weeks ago, while she was recovering from surgery, that he would never stop trying to win her over? What is it about men who can't seem to keep there package locked up for a short amount of time when they are in love with someone else...who, by the way...is at her brothers home recuperating from a major life altering surgery. This was the ruination of this story for me. The Chase we knew and learned to love would never do this to her. It just brought him down in my books. Please understand, she had asked him to leave her. She felt she and the illness would destroy him like she thought it did to her father. So he left and even though the band was on tour, he went a couple of months without going to see. He has chartered jets for things much less important but not to go to her. This man was crazy insane for her and he wants a hook up to make him forget Mia, even if it is only for a few hours. This hook-up ended up not happening but it was very close. It also hurt me to know he broke his big rule of not ever kissing a fan on the mouth. He broke his promise to himself for this hook up. Gosh I cannot tell you how upsetting it was and apparently I am not the only reviewer that feels this way. It diminished the story and his love for her. I was close to wishing someone else would come along in her life. Even though she fought him and the relationship, she deserved more. I would not have been able to trust him again no matter how much he said he loved me.