200 reviews for:

Stone Cold Notes

Julia Wolf

3.72 AVERAGE

jf_reads's review against another edition

4.0

emotional 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

mandersjojo's review against another edition

4.0

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Wren (Birdie) and Callum first interact when she sends him fan mail.  His band is just starting out.  He's known as stone cold since he doesn't talk to pretty much anyone.  Ever.  For some reason, he was drawn to Wren's emails years ago.  He found himself exchanging emails with his Birdie without actually knowing her. 

 

Wren was the girl in high school that didn't date and wasn't really treated well by her peers.  She found an outlet with emailing Callum Rose, bassist for The Seasons Change, a rock band growing in notoriety.  After a terrible prom experience, and being hurt trying to meet Callum after a show, Birdie finds herself changing so much about herself.  After having a child, she moves in with her great aunt since her parents were horrible toward her when she got pregnant. 

 

Years later, Wren starts a new job at Good Music as a receptionist.  When Adam and Callum, two members of The Seasons Change, approach her desk and Adam starts talking to her, Wren is taken back to years ago when her life changed.  Callum doesn't say a word to her, but she knows he doesn't realize who she is from his past. 

 

Through some crazy events, Callum and Wren start spending time together.  Let me tell you, Callum is a bit over the top and possessive.  Ok, not a bit.  A lot.  But in this world, it all makes sense and he's perfect for Wren and her son. 

 

Ok, I am all over the place with this series.  I read book 3 first (or so I thought).  I was about 2 chapters from the end and found out that book 1 was available on Audible with my membership so I started listening to it while working on some things around the house.  I finished book 1 while still not done with book 3.  Then I moved on to book 2, audio version, and realized I'd read that one last year.  It was… odd (review on that one), but now that I've read book 3 and listened to book 1, the characters made more sense.  What I’m getting at, is you can read all of the books in this series as a standalone, or completely out of order, and you will be fine.  I just highly recommend diving into these books for a great rockstar romance series.  They won't disappoint. 

ooohchet's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The story of Callum and Wren is really intense, obsessive, steamy and at times cute too. As a reader you’re not left wondering what happened with a character or storyline. Everything has a nice clean ending. I also really enjoyed the fact that the epilogue was set two years later. Overall, a very good read and would most likely read it again. 

morgan_hood's review against another edition

4.0

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Why did I enjoy this THAT much? Sigh..

Spoiler

though let me say, if any man tried to pull some stalker stuff on me like that it's a no from me. Then again if he wanted to pay my student loans ....

phoenix_fire_reading's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

beautyb1993's review against another edition

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This book caused my mental health to plummet. The main portion of the story didn’t bother me at all but the email exchanges just was so similar to my past experiences that it caused me to spiral. I was enjoying every aspect of the story but that part. 

bookstodissassociateto's review against another edition

4.0

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hmmmm..... reading about this type of obsession was fun... would it be equally as fun in real life? Probably not. I found myself pulling out of the pages to take a breather because Callum is INTENSE and then going this is weird, scary and I would run away fast if this was happening to me and my 3 year old. But while I was heads down in the story I was right there and ready to accept Callum completely manipulating this women's life for 3 years without her knowledge.

But he's rich, famous and good looking so that makes crazy obsession a little bit more palatable right?

There were a lot of flaws in both Callum and Wren, we didn't get as much background on Wren as we did Callum so she just came across as a chubby girl with no self esteem and fighting depression. Meanwhile Callum's adolescense seems to explain his oddities.

Interesting twist with the voyeurism kink and the fact that Wren was the only person Callum had ever had penetrative sex with.

I did find the single mom trope to be just that.. pretty tropey. She got pregnant after 1 night with a friend of her cousin during a depression spiral after feeling rejected by Callum. But he didn't know who she was so......

I had a lot of thoughts on this one I gues.

knbartheld's review against another edition

5.0

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*Stone Cold Notes* by Julia Wolf
The Seasons Change #2

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anxietygirl74's review against another edition

2.0

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2.5
A lot of this book was a 3 star read for me but it got too unhealthy for me to ignore. By the end there is a definite “if I can’t have you, nobody will” vibe they keep referring to as “pure but psycho love”. Uhhhhh…. I think it leans more towards psycho than pure but ok. If stalker romance is you trope then enjoy it to the fullest. Obviously it isn’t a trope that works for me.

lexxacat's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced