A review by brokenrecord
Beneath Wandering Stars by Ashlee Cowles

3.0

3.5 stars. This was a falling-for-your-brother’s-best-friend/road trip/enemies-to-lovers romance, which are 3 things I absolutely adore, so this should've been perfect for me, but for some reason I never really got into the story. There were parts I liked, but other parts fell flat. Also, there was a bit where Gabi’s ex-boyfriend wrote a letter to her that was like, “I got into UC Fresno so I’m moving to CA after graduation since I can’t pass up this opportunity to make it big in the SoCal music scene!” which like, ignoring the fact that UC Fresno does not exist, FRESNO IS NOT IN SOCAL. IT IS NOWHERE NEAR SOCAL. THE MEXICAN BORDER IS CLOSER TO LOS ANGELES THAN FRESNO IS. And if you wanted him to go to school in SoCal, there are literally 800,000 colleges you could’ve chosen from??? I recognize that this is a SUPER minor nitpick, and it certainly didn’t like ruin my enjoyment of the book, but it definitely took me out of the story and was just bizarre. And when I'm not invested in a story, little details like that one end up being a lot more irritating and harder to wave off.