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My Review:Title: #Moonstruck
Author: Sariah Wilson
Series: #Lovestruck #2
Published by: Montlake Romance
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 320
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Source: NetGalley
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Beat the Backlist Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 Diversity Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 Netgalley and Edelweiss Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 Read My Name Challenge, Lenoreo's Can You Read a Series November 2019
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My rating:
Blurb:Over one million “likes”—but only one of them matters.
After pop star Ryan De Luna praises Maisy Harrison’s YouTube cover of his classic hit, he offers Maisy and her fledgling band the opportunity of a lifetime: to be his opening act.
Music may be Maisy’s life, but she has one ground rule: never date a musician. That goes double for a heartbreaker like Ryan. If only she didn’t feel so vulnerable to his larger-than-life charm. And maybe now more than ever, when he asks for her help to shake off his playboy image. How can she resist playing the part of his fake girlfriend for the duration of the tour?
Ryan’s never met anyone like Maisy. She sees past all the star-studded fame and treats him like any other guy. And the more time they spend together, the more he finds himself falling for her. Now he’d like to make their imaginary fling an IRL thing. But can he convince her to take a chance and trust him with her heart?
4 stars — Well, apparently this is going to be a theme. I LOVE so much about these books, they just delight me to no end. BUT, as with book 1, I personally did NOT like the conflict/climax and resolution. It’s so hard when you love a book so much, and then the end doesn’t work for you. How do you rate that? I’m going to err on the high side because I really did LOVE the banter and chemistry in this one, again.
I didn’t connect with Maisy quite as much as Zoe in book 1. No matter how hard Ms. Wilson tried, I just couldn’t understand her hangups with her Dad, especially to the extreme she went to. I loved her sarcastic nature, I loved her passion for her music…and I felt for her over the situation with her Mom. But her temper always kind of threw me off, and in the end her irrationality was completely unbelievable to me…especially for the length of time it took her to figure her shiznit out. It diminished her in my eyes, and we weren’t given enough time for her to build it back up. In the end she didn’t really redeem herself, and I was disappointed by the halfhearted effort she put in to apologizing. It was there, but I needed more.
Ryan was pretty sweet actually. I loved the way they bantered with one another, they made me laugh so much. I definitely felt the chemistry between the two of them, from friends to more. The whole video shoot was just heart-melting. And the song her wrote for her?? *swoon* But in the end he was kind of a pushover. He was wronged, and he deserved an apology, and he let her off the hook too easily. I mean, *he* made the grand gesture. WTF?
Really enjoyed the dynamic between Maisy and her brothers, even if they were overprotective. I love how they gave each other shit…again, they made me laugh. And I enjoyed the side story with Angie and Fox.
(from a diversity perspective, this one was just token…I marked it as diverse since Ryan is biracial, but it doesn’t come into play at all)
So yeah. Another great book with an ending that didn’t satisfy me. UGH! Such a bummer…
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