Tear by Rachel Van Dyken

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Title: Tear
Author: Rachel Van Dyken
Series: Seaside #1
Published by: Audible Studios
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Luci Christian
Length: 7 hours and 15 minutes
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Source: Audible Premium Plus
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 Bookish Resolutions DTTH
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:

Blurb:

Life as a teenager is never easy. But for Natalee Murray, things have just gotten way more difficult. Bored with life, she can't wait to graduate high school and get out of town, especially considering the famous band members from AD2 suddenly start attending her school, making her once boring life, absolutely insane.

It starts with a pen. A single brush of fingers, and she is captivated.

But Alec and Demetri have a dark secret, one that could shatter their reputations and Natalee's heart. What do you do when one guy paints your life with color while the other infuses your soul with passion? How do you choose when your heart is divided?

*This is a New Adult/Mature YA. Minor swearing and drug usage.

DNF @ end of Chapter 1 — Wow.  I mean, I had a feeling this might not work for me because I have very mixed reactions to books by this author (who I think I’m officially marking as not for me).  But I still expected to get farther than the end of chapter 1.

It started off not great, with our heroine being a bit vague, and what a shocker: a hot chick who doesn’t think she’s hot.  Oh, and we got the start of absent parents.  Sometimes I enjoy these…this was not giving me the best connection vibes though, so I was wary.

Our 2 heroes (another strike against for this reader) are hot rock stars at her high school for some reason.  And I got to a thought by the heroine that went something along the lines of “grown women wanted to rape them”, and I’m out.  *shrugs*  I have too many other books to read.