ggish 's review for:

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne

4.0

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Perhaps a more appropriate name for "The Love Song of Jonny Valentine," might have been "The Unauthorized Biography of Justin Bieber." Justin and Jonny share so many similarities, that it's hard to imagine Justin having a dissimilar view on his life and career. I never thought I'd actually feel sympathetic toward Justin Bieber. He, like the fictional Jonny Valentine, is a multimillion dollar industry - packaged and sold by a clever marketing strategy - it must be hard having all that rest on your shoulders - not to mention the constant fear of childhood predators, your absentee father, and your hard partying mother…all the while trying to successfully navigate your way through puberty. Teddy Wayne succeeds in creating a character so real, as I mentioned before, that it's difficult to imagine "the real thing"(Justin Bieber) feels any differently. Don't get me wrong, I know this is a work of fiction - obviously - but in all the important ways I think it's a diary of every famous child star.