Cute story. I loved the interaction between the bands, but there just wasn't enough rocker 'stuff' in this for me! ( )

Now I know why there were so many pages and to be honest it was over kill. Christopher has some demons he is fighting but when he has his nightmares I think it's only necessary write the nightmare once not repeat the same thing every time he has it (and he has them every night! but it was repeated every night so don't get worried) after the first two times I read it I found myself skimming over that part after that. Finally they stop mid way through the book thank goodness. I love books that go back and forth from each persons POV but not when the same situation is repeated from the others POV and not that the author did that every single time but it was done more than I would have liked. I also thought the story was dragging- things could have moved along a lot faster. Now I feel like I have been bashing this book but I truly did love the story line and even know it was dragging on I was still captivated enough to not want to put it down. There were also a lot of other things going on beside Mia and Christopher's drama- the other band members were getting together and the author bought you along for their ride as well without taking the focus off Mia and Christopher. The ending isn't perfect or the complete happily ever after but it's close.
There is a short book #2 Stellar Evolution
Quotes:
"Falling stars aren't always meant to be caught you know?"
"It hadn't taken doctors and therapist to put me back together again. It had only taken Mia to give me back meaning."

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Hm. I am so torn about this. It's a pretty cookie-cutter story and that's what I didn't like about it. But on the other hand, I did like the way the story unfolded (at least until...a certain issue I never like in books). And while the characters were also pretty cookie-cutter, the issues they deal with and the way they deal with them were not, and all of them were pretty well developed. I loved the dynamic between the girls. Guys, eh...didn't feel it as much. The chemistry between Chris and Mia was great, though!

What is different about this is that Chris is not saved by the power of love, as often characters are in books like these (think Christian Grey, Gideon Cross, or whatshisname from The Mighty Storm - Jake something). He actually seeks professional help and in the end he still hasn't worked his issues out. Mia doesn't believe she can save him with some TLC alone, the way heroines often do. She calls him out on his bullshit all the time, which I really liked, because she didn't come of as a sad, pathetic, lovesick puppy willing to do anything to be with him.
So, you know, it actually felt realistic.

Another thing I liked is that they don't just fall in love at first sight - I'd say they start off by disliking each other, they weren't even together that much. There's some serious attraction, but it's well over half of book when anything serious even happens between them.
Though, I couldn't shake off this feeling that the only reason he was falling for her was that she took his nightmares away and he somehow made it out in his head to be more than it was. What if she didn't? And why did that happen anyways?
And his dependency on her to get through the night was unsettling (and the way he went about it, barging into her room, manhandling her, etc. - seriously, not cool. I can't approve of this.) I was happier when he agreed to seek help (even if he was reluctant).

I wasn't a fan of the whole pregnancy thing, but I'm usually not. It slowed the story down so much and it got boring. But! I wasn't really put off by it, and that's a first.
I just feel that often authors invent a baby in order to force the characters to stay together and work through those issues and that's what it felt like here too.
If there wasn't a baby, would they ever get (back, or at all) together? I'm not so sure.

I won't talk about the continuity/editing issues I found because I believe the author will fix this eventually. Actually, some of them made me laugh :) - it happens when you read a funny constructed sentence at 5 in the morning.

So yeah, I can't agree with people saying this was like 50SoG (although there's the whole inner whore inner horny teenager thing in this too, which made me gag) or Bared to You, or Beautiful Disaster, or whatever, because the author actually takes the time to let the characters fall in love, work through their issues, and she doesn't just invent a solution to all their problems and tah-dah, happy ending. Oh, speaking of which, the ending was kind of anti-climatic, like she wanted to continue the story instead of ending it. It just wasn't a this is why I read this book ending that leaves you wanting more.

So yeah, if you're into this kind of story, rock stars, heroes with troubled pasts, etc, I'd definitely recommend the book. Just be prepared to suffer through a lot of unedited writing that will make you cringe at times (or laugh. whichever.) ( )

So I happened to get this one off the free reads through Amazon and decided to give it a try since I had it on my TBR shelf. I was very surprised at how much I liked it. I was happy I checked out the free reads yesterday. There were definitely some typos and grammatical errors as well as some places where the author needed to do better editing but overall I was able to look past those things and just get into the story.

This was a lot more than a story about the "Bad boy" falling in love for the first time with a "Good girl" and them having to figure out how to navigate their new relationship. There isn't really that insta-love we find in a lot of these books, these characters truly do not like the other person (although Chris realizes his true feelings about Mia a lot sooner than Mia does) and Chris really is a asshole to almost everyone.

This isn't just a love story, there is a lot going on here.

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