A review by vicktorea
Bootleg Stardust by Glenn Dixon

Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

This was tag-lined to appeal to people like me who loved Daisy Jones and the Six, but it seemed the only similarity was that it was set in the 1970s and about a guy trying to make it big.

I found the dialogue to be really one-dimensional and the writing style just did not appeal to me; it felt very young (almost middle grade) in the descriptions and depictions so I found it hard to take the story seriously and to even place who this story's target audience was (was it YA? Was it adult, since the main character is, technically an adult? I'll never know).

There was nothing that helped set this in the 1970s either, other than the synopsis and a few song references. There was nothing atmospheric about this and I was bored so I decided not to finish it.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.