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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was absolutely everything a work of women’s fiction should be! I breezed right through it because I loved it so much! I like when women’s fiction books have multi-faceted plots and romance is just one of them. Because I like love stories fine enough, but not really when that’s the only focus of the book. This book had so many other things going on. A cruise to Alaska, first of all. I love books about vacations so that was a plus right away. Then there was the main story of Greta trying to refocus herself and regain her passion for music, plus the repairing of her relationship with her father, and then the love story was a fun extra added in. I liked that Greta was the same age as me and how relatable she was despite being a semi-famous musician (I imagined her as sort of like a Sara Bareilles type). I highly recommend this book to everyone, because I think it has something for everyone!
I really wanted to like this book as it’s been on my tbr for a while and I’d heard good things. This book could’ve easily done with being about 150 pages shorter and so much of the dialogue felt repetitive. For a book that was very character driven, there wasn’t a lot of depth to the characters and it was a very disappointing read
emotional
hopeful
reflective
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was just kind of boring. Every page was a recap of the plot—she’s a rock star and her dad is mad about it for some reason and also she had a meltdown on stage. These two points were repeated over and over to the point that finishing this was tedious. There were some very sweet moments and some sad ones. Her love interest was not interesting. He was too serious and boring. I didn’t see what she saw in him and it just ended weird between them.
2/5 stars
The book started off quite promising. I was quite intrigued as I began it. I enjoyed the potential of exploration of the complex emotions that come with the death of a parent, a rocky relationship with the other parent, a difficult time in one's very public-facing career, and a new romance. However, I don't think the book actually spent enough time with any of those aspects. I think that the time spent on the main character's relationship with her father definitely needed to be much longer and needed to be explored in much more depth. Considering where it began, their relationship could not have been fully fixed in only a week and to truly be any kind of fixed, the father would've had to have spent way more time reflecting and apologizing than he did. I think this book would've been much better if it had focused on only 1 or 2 of the plot aspects and the depth of feeling they would inspire and/or let the book grow, say, another 100 pages to better accommodate the complexities of the topics it tried to involve.
I wanted to like this and I thought I would to begin with. I'm afraid to say that's not what happened. 2 stars.
The book started off quite promising. I was quite intrigued as I began it. I enjoyed the potential of exploration of the complex emotions that come with the death of a parent, a rocky relationship with the other parent, a difficult time in one's very public-facing career, and a new romance. However, I don't think the book actually spent enough time with any of those aspects. I think that the time spent on the main character's relationship with her father definitely needed to be much longer and needed to be explored in much more depth. Considering where it began, their relationship could not have been fully fixed in only a week and to truly be any kind of fixed, the father would've had to have spent way more time reflecting and apologizing than he did. I think this book would've been much better if it had focused on only 1 or 2 of the plot aspects and the depth of feeling they would inspire and/or let the book grow, say, another 100 pages to better accommodate the complexities of the topics it tried to involve.
I wanted to like this and I thought I would to begin with. I'm afraid to say that's not what happened. 2 stars.