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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
This is one of the most beautiful stories about grief and love, specifically familial love and unconditional, selfless love. The main characters Oliver and Emery are so easy to connect to. If I could have hugged them through the pages, I would’ve never let them go.
Oliver is grieving in the most relatable way. I’ve seen many people cope in similar ways, myself included. He isolates and puts up a wall, but you can still feel that he’s got a beautiful soul. He is just incredibly broken and working through as best as he can.
Emery is such a strong FMC and I live for it. Her love for not only her family (ish) but strangers and humanity as a whole is so genuine and selfless. The enemies she makes are just sick to their stomach with jealousy of her light.
The “villains” of this story are kind of cliché. Almost too fucked up to be believable but I say that with a grain of salt because I’m sure, unfortunately, that those kinds of people do exist. They were effortless to hate but again, I almost felt like they were written to be so outrageously unlikeable and like it didn’t give me a chance to make my own connection/disconnection with them. I hope that makes sense. Also—and I know you’re not supposed to say stuff like this—but the kid got on my nerves the entire book. Sorry.
All in all, this book felt like a hug. Even though I didn’t feel like I needed one necessarily, it was still welcomed and I’m glad it was there for me.
Oliver is grieving in the most relatable way. I’ve seen many people cope in similar ways, myself included. He isolates and puts up a wall, but you can still feel that he’s got a beautiful soul. He is just incredibly broken and working through as best as he can.
Emery is such a strong FMC and I live for it. Her love for not only her family (ish) but strangers and humanity as a whole is so genuine and selfless. The enemies she makes are just sick to their stomach with jealousy of her light.
The “villains” of this story are kind of cliché. Almost too fucked up to be believable but I say that with a grain of salt because I’m sure, unfortunately, that those kinds of people do exist. They were effortless to hate but again, I almost felt like they were written to be so outrageously unlikeable and like it didn’t give me a chance to make my own connection/disconnection with them. I hope that makes sense. Also—and I know you’re not supposed to say stuff like this—but the kid got on my nerves the entire book. Sorry.
All in all, this book felt like a hug. Even though I didn’t feel like I needed one necessarily, it was still welcomed and I’m glad it was there for me.
challenging
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
a coisa que mais me irrita nesse livro é a responsabilidade que jogaram na Sammie de ficar com a criança do abusador dela, ficam repetindo o tempo inteiro que ela "abandonou" a irmã e a filha sendo que ela tava lidando com muita coisa, so no final o oliver reconhece os problemas da sammie e ele é a unica pessoa.
Pelo menos o casal é fofo
Pelo menos o casal é fofo
4 stelle!
La Cherry è una scrittrice che ho sempre ammirato. I suoi romanzi sono pieni di emozioni e neanche questa volta mi ha deluso.
Mille canzoni d'amore è un dolce slow burn, con una coppia davvero interessante.
Durante la storia vengono inserite davvero tante problematiche, ma credo che non tutte hanno avuto il giusto tempo per essere trattate come dovevano.
La Cherry è una scrittrice che ho sempre ammirato. I suoi romanzi sono pieni di emozioni e neanche questa volta mi ha deluso.
Mille canzoni d'amore è un dolce slow burn, con una coppia davvero interessante.
Durante la storia vengono inserite davvero tante problematiche, ma credo che non tutte hanno avuto il giusto tempo per essere trattate come dovevano.
Beautiful story!
The Mixtape was my first read by Brittainy C. Cherry. This was such an emotionally, gut wrenching story. Oliver and Emery’s journey was wonderfully written. I laughed, I cried and felt myself being torn apart and put back together along with the characters. The narrators did an amazing job portraying Oliver and Emery!
The Mixtape was my first read by Brittainy C. Cherry. This was such an emotionally, gut wrenching story. Oliver and Emery’s journey was wonderfully written. I laughed, I cried and felt myself being torn apart and put back together along with the characters. The narrators did an amazing job portraying Oliver and Emery!
hopeful
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved the story of emery and Oliver! Music plays a big part of the story. It’s okay to get rid of toxic people. Family is who you choose!
This is one of those books that you just want to stay with this couple. You want to see Reece grow up, Sammy heal, just the growth and love of their family. I loved every second of this book.
June 2021 Kindle First Read. Which is the only reason I chose it. KFR is usually a choice of thrillers, thrillers, or psychological dramas. Or a thriller. The fact this was billed as a contemporary romance was such a welcome change. Which is was for the most part, but overall the book was just kind of okay.
The story itself is intriguing - how two people broken down by life find their way to each other to lift each other up and heal. Oliver is part of a rock duo with his twin, Alex. Oliver blames himself for Alex's death in a car accident and turns even more reclusive and distant. Emery is a single mother, struggling with keeping a roof over their head and food on the table. Emery is very distant from her family in order to keep her daughter from the abuse Emery has suffered with her whole life, so she has no support other than her fairy godmother of a neighbor.
There are a couple of twists I didn't expect, and some I saw coming from a mile away. Almost all of them are hand-waved away without any real resolution or consequences. It would have been a stronger book if Cherry had focused on those instead of the non-romance romance. The romance itself is kind of forced, as if it is their traumas that make them find each other attractive. There's nothing that made me believe they would have fallen in love otherwise.
Starting to think I need a shelf for interesting-plot-meh-execution.
The story itself is intriguing - how two people broken down by life find their way to each other to lift each other up and heal. Oliver is part of a rock duo with his twin, Alex. Oliver blames himself for Alex's death in a car accident and turns even more reclusive and distant. Emery is a single mother, struggling with keeping a roof over their head and food on the table. Emery is very distant from her family in order to keep her daughter from the abuse Emery has suffered with her whole life, so she has no support other than her fairy godmother of a neighbor.
There are a couple of twists I didn't expect, and some I saw coming from a mile away. Almost all of them are hand-waved away without any real resolution or consequences. It would have been a stronger book if Cherry had focused on those instead of the non-romance romance. The romance itself is kind of forced, as if it is their traumas that make them find each other attractive. There's nothing that made me believe they would have fallen in love otherwise.
Spoiler
In one flashback chapter, Emery and her sister Sammie are at a meet & greet backstage at an Alex & Oliver concert, and have a memorable meeting between the four of them. But there's no mention of it otherwise, and both Oliver and Emery act like they've never met. It's more understandable from Oliver given how many fans he probably met in his life, but if there was that attraction he has in the rest of the book, you'd think he'd have remembered meeting her. I don't know why Emery wouldn't have said anything about it either. There's no reason to keep it hidden. It feels like part of an earlier draft that got missed in revision.Starting to think I need a shelf for interesting-plot-meh-execution.