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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
The writing isn’t terrible, but it’s overly, pointlessly descriptive, melodramatic, and trying way too hard to be mysterious.
This was a book club pick, so I made myself keep going until I was halfway through, but I already finished one book club assignment that I didn’t enjoy this year, and there are too many other books that I want to read for me to put any more time into this one.
This was a book club pick, so I made myself keep going until I was halfway through, but I already finished one book club assignment that I didn’t enjoy this year, and there are too many other books that I want to read for me to put any more time into this one.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The only reason it's getting a two is because I like Dolly and what she does to get books in the hands of children.
Listened to the audiobook. It took me a few chapters to get used to the multiple narrators, but I loved having Dolly & Kelsea Ballerini as narrators and ended up enjoying it! I enjoyed the storyline and the ending. I’m excited this will be a movie!
This was ok. Not really a mystery but the insights about the country music industry were believable and the characters were good albeit a bit predictable. Still….worth reading.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 ⭐️ I liked this book, I think I had the most fun reading it just because you could listen to each of the songs Dolly’s made for the novel as you go! Makes you feel like you’re really there watching them perform.
I’m not sure I ever read a James Patterson novel but saw this on the NYT list with a co-author of Dolly and I was in. So got this from the library on Libby and forgot I had it on hold until it showed up in my app. Ain’t that always how it goes?
I enjoyed this story. It was fast-paced and even the parts of exposition moved along nicely. You could talk about deeper themes — like identity, redefining our past, forgetting our past. There is a thread of domestic abuse that runs through the Keyes story which is not well-developed. But it’s not meant to be. It struck me as odd at first but then not so odd. I’m not a big fan of country music but I am a big fan of Dolly’s and the story here unfolds a lot like one of her songs.
I enjoyed this story. It was fast-paced and even the parts of exposition moved along nicely. You could talk about deeper themes — like identity, redefining our past, forgetting our past. There is a thread of domestic abuse that runs through the Keyes story which is not well-developed. But it’s not meant to be. It struck me as odd at first but then not so odd. I’m not a big fan of country music but I am a big fan of Dolly’s and the story here unfolds a lot like one of her songs.