From Goodreads:
Tara can pinpoint the moment when everything in her life changed: it was when she fell in love with Aidan Forrest - who just happened to be a part of the biggest boy band in the world, Idol Hands. She spent two years as his "secret girlfriend," hiding from the media to protect his career, until he broke up with her, breaking her heart, and leaving behind a secret that Tara has never shared. Fourteen years after their breakup, she's in a bad marriage, and a dead-end job. When she sees a television documentary in which Aidan confesses that he still loves her, she makes a life-changing decision: she leaves her husband to go and find Aidan. With no real plan of attack it's not going to be easy, but Tara knows that she can't give up.
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I'm reading this! :D Like.. right now! Well, not right now, I'm typing right now but I'm reading it when I'm not typing! :D :D :D
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ReplyDeleteI have to say I started to worry at first. I had no idea what the book was about when I started reading. I just took it on your word really. Then I realised there was an awful lot of talk about boy bands. I hate boy bands. A lot. >.>
ReplyDeleteSo I worried I wouldn't dig it. But now I'm kinda into the story and wondering what's gonna happen next. I'm sinking into it very slowly, almost imperceptibly. Like the way you ease into a really hot bath. :)
Hahaha.. yeah, not so much about boy bands as it is about Tara's journey. I can't wait until you get further..
DeleteI really love the diary format, too.
Helloooo.... you still reading this? LOL
ReplyDeleteOkay so I finished this a few days ago. I took a couple extra days to think about it. I have mixed feelings about this one. Perhaps it's because it's so far out of my genre.
ReplyDeleteSo like... it was interesting. But I never felt a climax or a conclusion. Granted the way it ended, with the question still lingering in the reader's mind.. was she really his ex or wasn't she?... that is good. I dig that. I like a cliffhanger ending. But I'm not sure it was an ending since there was no climax.
So maybe we say you couldn't have had a climax in that manner because of the diary-style writing. She couldn't have possibly written a journal entry AND acted out for the climax at the same time. I get that. Okay. But... If you're including newspaper cuttings and magazine articles at the end, surely you've broken script anyway so why the hesitation?
It wasn't a bad book by any means. I appreciated the realism of the work. I've been homeless. I know what you go through. She did well in covering that. Tara was believeable.
Maybe it's the cynic in me. I always wondered from the beginning if she had made it all up in her head. After all, bitches be crazy, yo! So the ending with his denial of her claims was not surprising in the least. Nor was the attack on Adrian. The only thing I had not expected was Steve's end. THAT was a surprise.
In the end I think I enjoyed the story but was moderately disappointed by the ending. This could also be due to my inability to maintain a steady reading pace as I usually do. I've been super busy. :/
So what's up with the lack of a climax anyway? Did she ever say? Did anyone else notice it? Or am I just delusional? I could be, you know. I am sometimes. :D
I thought the ending was HUGELY climactic! But, I read the book in a day so maybe it was my mindset. I had no idea how it was going to end. I didn't even have an inkling. Maybe I'm the delusional one? lol
ReplyDeleteCynthia is writing another book right now. I'm getting the first 100 pages to 'beta read' and I can't wait to see what she comes up with next.
I never get stuff to beta read >.> I'm jealous >.<
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