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A review by ofbooksandromance
All Note Long by Annabeth Albert
2.0
2 stars
I have very mixed feelings about this series. Book one didn’t work for me, but I loved book 2 so I was very hopeful that I would enjoy this one too, but sadly, it also didn’t work for me.
Quick summary: Michelin is closeted country star and Lucky is a go go dancer trying to make it into the dancing world and Michelin goes to the club where Lucky dances and Michelin ends up being outed. Michelin and Lucky start to fake date because the label think it might help Michelin’s career.
Let me just start by saying that I don’t really enjoy angst, I like when my books are happy and I don’t have a high tolerance for angst, which really didn’t help me here because this entire book is very sad and angsty, so thats the first thing that didn’t work for me. I really appreciated Michelin’s character but he had a lot of internalized homophobia and it got way too heavy for me after a while. It was really well done though, just not for me.
Honestly, there are a couple of things that really bothered me with this book but the biggest one is Lucky. I just didn’t like him, at all. He wasn’t very nice to Michelin most of the time and it really bothered me, I just thought he could have done much better.
I really want to talk about one thing though. So the big conflict of the book was because Michelin didn’t want to be an out and proud country singer, he just wanted to stay in his corner and sign his music and Lucky wanted him to be proud of them or he couldn’t be with him. So they break up at 75% because of that. But Lucky also betrays Michelin in the worst way, which I thought was way worst than what Michelin did. Yet Michelin was the only one to apologize and do a public gesture where he signs a song he wrote for Lucky, but Lucky barely apologized for betraying him and I thought it wasn’t fair at all. Like sure Michelin had some issues and maybe wasn’t the most proud, but he wasn’t the one the worst one in the situation to me. To explain it, Michelin told Lucky that was in love with a guy before and that he broke his heart and then Lucky accepts to dance in that guy’s music video (that is only doing it to hurt Michelin) because it will help his career and he never cares about hurting Michelin’s feelings. And then Lucky backs out of it BUT he says it’s because it would make him look bad and all and not because of Michelin. To me he should have said no because it would hurt his man and he knew it. I really really hated that. It was a massive betrayal to me and I didn’t like how it was shown like it wasn’t a big thing, it was really important to me. And I don’t see how they can have a strong relationship after that.
I just want to mention one thing that I really liked and that was the fact that Michelin is demisexual. It was really nicely done and I loved how he discovered his sexuality and how he burned for Lucky, that was really nice.
I received an ARC of this book in exchange of my honest opinion
I have very mixed feelings about this series. Book one didn’t work for me, but I loved book 2 so I was very hopeful that I would enjoy this one too, but sadly, it also didn’t work for me.
Quick summary: Michelin is closeted country star and Lucky is a go go dancer trying to make it into the dancing world and Michelin goes to the club where Lucky dances and Michelin ends up being outed. Michelin and Lucky start to fake date because the label think it might help Michelin’s career.
Let me just start by saying that I don’t really enjoy angst, I like when my books are happy and I don’t have a high tolerance for angst, which really didn’t help me here because this entire book is very sad and angsty, so thats the first thing that didn’t work for me. I really appreciated Michelin’s character but he had a lot of internalized homophobia and it got way too heavy for me after a while. It was really well done though, just not for me.
Honestly, there are a couple of things that really bothered me with this book but the biggest one is Lucky. I just didn’t like him, at all. He wasn’t very nice to Michelin most of the time and it really bothered me, I just thought he could have done much better.
I really want to talk about one thing though. So the big conflict of the book was because Michelin didn’t want to be an out and proud country singer, he just wanted to stay in his corner and sign his music and Lucky wanted him to be proud of them or he couldn’t be with him. So they break up at 75% because of that. But Lucky also betrays Michelin in the worst way, which I thought was way worst than what Michelin did. Yet Michelin was the only one to apologize and do a public gesture where he signs a song he wrote for Lucky, but Lucky barely apologized for betraying him and I thought it wasn’t fair at all. Like sure Michelin had some issues and maybe wasn’t the most proud, but he wasn’t the one the worst one in the situation to me. To explain it, Michelin told Lucky that was in love with a guy before and that he broke his heart and then Lucky accepts to dance in that guy’s music video (that is only doing it to hurt Michelin) because it will help his career and he never cares about hurting Michelin’s feelings. And then Lucky backs out of it BUT he says it’s because it would make him look bad and all and not because of Michelin. To me he should have said no because it would hurt his man and he knew it. I really really hated that. It was a massive betrayal to me and I didn’t like how it was shown like it wasn’t a big thing, it was really important to me. And I don’t see how they can have a strong relationship after that.
I just want to mention one thing that I really liked and that was the fact that Michelin is demisexual. It was really nicely done and I loved how he discovered his sexuality and how he burned for Lucky, that was really nice.
I received an ARC of this book in exchange of my honest opinion