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A review by jscarpa14
Aimee and the Heartthrob by Ophelia London
3.0
This was another one where I debated on the rating. I liked it, but I have a lot of trouble relating to a character who writes fanfiction about boy bands, especially when she personally knows one of the members and he's the star of her daydreams put in words. It's one thing to day dream about a crush it's quite another to write down said fantasies and share them with the world.
I've been in the mood for light fluff pieces lately which is how I think I managed to stumble upon a whole genre of books with characters eerily similar to One Direction. Or at least that's the band that comes to mind for me because that's the one that's currently got a lot of songs on the radio with five guys who all sing. That said it might not be a good comparison since I haven't been a preteen for a while and therefore don't stalk top 40 artists online. But anyway having stumbled upon pretty much a whole genre of new adult and young adult romance devoted to the boy band, this title has a lot of similarities to other of this type some kind of adorable, others distracting.
Like the last one of these books I read I thought the many many passages of lyrics were distracting. This one doesn't have as many as the last I read, but there are still a lot more than I think was necessary. Yes I get that the hero is a musician but I don't need to know the words to every song they've ever fictionally written.
Other than the stuff mentioned about the man thing that stuck with me were the flashbacks and emotional range and experience of the characters. These two don't read like they're sixteen and seventeen. And if they've only known each other five years and two of them didn't speak at all plus at least one she was fan fiction crushing on her friend turned popstar then everything else that happened had to have occurred within a two year range and somehow made enough of an emotional impact to be adversely affecting Aimee now. Throw in the prior relationship history of both characters and the timeline just doesn't work. Maybe if these characters were in their 20s now and all that stuff was spread out a bit more plus they'd both had time to have the sort of relationships they've supposedly had then sure, but at 16 and 17 the background stories of both characters aren't really believable and without that it kind of throws off the premise of the whole story.
That said the story was cute and I enjoyed reading it. Fans of boy band teen romances will probably adore the novel.
I've been in the mood for light fluff pieces lately which is how I think I managed to stumble upon a whole genre of books with characters eerily similar to One Direction. Or at least that's the band that comes to mind for me because that's the one that's currently got a lot of songs on the radio with five guys who all sing. That said it might not be a good comparison since I haven't been a preteen for a while and therefore don't stalk top 40 artists online. But anyway having stumbled upon pretty much a whole genre of new adult and young adult romance devoted to the boy band, this title has a lot of similarities to other of this type some kind of adorable, others distracting.
Like the last one of these books I read I thought the many many passages of lyrics were distracting. This one doesn't have as many as the last I read, but there are still a lot more than I think was necessary. Yes I get that the hero is a musician but I don't need to know the words to every song they've ever fictionally written.
Other than the stuff mentioned about the man thing that stuck with me were the flashbacks and emotional range and experience of the characters. These two don't read like they're sixteen and seventeen. And if they've only known each other five years and two of them didn't speak at all plus at least one she was fan fiction crushing on her friend turned popstar then everything else that happened had to have occurred within a two year range and somehow made enough of an emotional impact to be adversely affecting Aimee now. Throw in the prior relationship history of both characters and the timeline just doesn't work. Maybe if these characters were in their 20s now and all that stuff was spread out a bit more plus they'd both had time to have the sort of relationships they've supposedly had then sure, but at 16 and 17 the background stories of both characters aren't really believable and without that it kind of throws off the premise of the whole story.
That said the story was cute and I enjoyed reading it. Fans of boy band teen romances will probably adore the novel.