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A review by mweis
Till There Was You by Lindsay Hameroff
2.5
*I received an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*
This book reads like fanfiction, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s not what I was expecting. It also very much reads like it was written by a millennial, like there’s multiple references to Twilight and someone thirsting after Justin Bieber. Which again not a bad thing, but not what I was expecting. I also think I have gotten used to romances being dual perspective, so it really threw me off when we were only in Lexi’s head.
Lexi is a culinary student, who has an amazing weekend with Jake, a musician she met at a dive bar. He is getting ready to fly to LA to record a demo and they promise to keep in touch when all of a sudden he blows up and becomes famous and because of romance book miscommunication, they don’t talk to each other again until he comes back to New York over a year later. When they reconnect, Lexi has to decide if giving Jake a second chance is really what she wants.
I think this book does a great job of highlighting the downside of celebrity. We see Jake struggle with being famous and with not being able to be “normal” because of people trying to take his picture or leaking gossip about him, and we see how that impacts Lexi when she’s photographed with him. We also see how challenging Lexi‘s job as a chef makes maintaining a relationship, and some of the negative sides of working in the restaurant industry. That being said the plot was all over the place. I’m still unclear on how much time this book actually took place over because events happened in a blink of an eye. It made the relationship feel very insta love, which then made me question Lexi because she had to have known her life was going to change by being in a public relationship with a celebrity, but it’s like she never actually thought about it and it felt like they’d only known each other a week.
Overall, I can’t say this was a good book but I can say there was potential and that I devoured it in one sitting and am planning on picking up Never Planned on You soon.
This book reads like fanfiction, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s not what I was expecting. It also very much reads like it was written by a millennial, like there’s multiple references to Twilight and someone thirsting after Justin Bieber. Which again not a bad thing, but not what I was expecting. I also think I have gotten used to romances being dual perspective, so it really threw me off when we were only in Lexi’s head.
Lexi is a culinary student, who has an amazing weekend with Jake, a musician she met at a dive bar. He is getting ready to fly to LA to record a demo and they promise to keep in touch when all of a sudden he blows up and becomes famous and because of romance book miscommunication, they don’t talk to each other again until he comes back to New York over a year later. When they reconnect, Lexi has to decide if giving Jake a second chance is really what she wants.
I think this book does a great job of highlighting the downside of celebrity. We see Jake struggle with being famous and with not being able to be “normal” because of people trying to take his picture or leaking gossip about him, and we see how that impacts Lexi when she’s photographed with him. We also see how challenging Lexi‘s job as a chef makes maintaining a relationship, and some of the negative sides of working in the restaurant industry. That being said the plot was all over the place. I’m still unclear on how much time this book actually took place over because events happened in a blink of an eye. It made the relationship feel very insta love, which then made me question Lexi because she had to have known her life was going to change by being in a public relationship with a celebrity, but it’s like she never actually thought about it and it felt like they’d only known each other a week.
Overall, I can’t say this was a good book but I can say there was potential and that I devoured it in one sitting and am planning on picking up Never Planned on You soon.