Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The premise of this book drew me in. The description made it sound so interesting and the sample I read was pretty good too. I soon found out, however, that this book isn't as good as I thought it was going to be. Jax and Sadie fell in love waaaay too fast.They had only met like 3 times and already Jax was talking about how she was his "air" and he had a difficult time breathing without her around. And somehow Sadie felt the same way, too! Normally, I don't have a problem with such talk but they barely knew each other! The novel was filled with their ridiculous claims of love for each other too. "You're the reason I get up in the morning." or "You're the only reason my heart beats." or "You're my soul." SERIOUSLY?!?! WTF?!?! All that for a person you've only met a few times?!?! I can stand love at first sight books as long as they're done properly. This was not done properly. Sadie had about as much personality as a cardboard box and I kept wondering why all these guys liked her so much. I couldn't help but agree with her when she said she was dull and boring. The only defining thing about her was her love for Jax and that got real old, real fast. Not to mention that she would take it as a compliment that the only thing her world revolved around was Jax. Jax was the same way too but he seemed to have a little more life than Sadie did. They, Jax and Marcus, must've liked her for her looks because I did not understand what was so appealing about her. Which brings me to another point: her looks. Everyone kept repeating how breathtakingly beautiful she was, especially Jax. It seemed like that's the reason he fell so hard for her. And if it wasn't her looks, it was how she was so refreshingly different from the other shallow girls her age or how she seemed so much older because of her maturity. Marcus played a huge part in that one. I got that they were madly in love with her because she had the looks of an angel so naturally they would lather her with compliments from time to time. But this wasn't occasionally, this was an every time she talked to one of them, constant, 24/7 thing. There wasn't one conversation they had where they weren't giving her multitudes of compliments or telling her how much she means to them. They dialogue was strange too. No one spoke in contractions and it was hard to imagine anyone, let alone teenagers, talking like that. It felt very awkward and was another reason why I don't like this story. The plot was disappointing. Nothing ever really happens except what you would expect. Rock star and average girl fall in love -> Blissful happiness along with average girl fearing she doesn't fit into rock star's world -> Something terrible happens which makes rock star think average girl isn't safe in his world -> Rock star leaves -> Average girl becomes suicidal and something terrible happens again -> Rock star comes back -> Happily ever after Throw some rivals and secondary characters in and that's the story. There isn't any sort of character development. Sadie's mom is the only one who seems to have changed. Sadie is a lot like she is at the beginning of the book: a boring person who takes care of people. At the end she is a boring person who takes care of people with her ultra hot and super famous boyfriend. So, between Jax and Sadie always nauseatingly declaring their undying love for each other, everyone complimenting Sadie on how unique she was to be gifted with ethereal beauty, compassion, and down-to-earthness, and the disappointing plot with contractionless characters, I got little to no enjoyment from this book. Not once did I feel the least bit depressed about Jax and Sadie's "tragic" love. The only reason I'm giving it 2 stars is because sometimes I felt warm fuzzies when Jax and Sadie were together, doing couple things. There were also some parts I actually liked reading like when Sadie takes care of Sam or when Jax stays with Sadie after her accident. That was a warm fuzzy moment and I thought it was pretty cute. I should've waited until this book goes down in price though. It felt like more of a $2 or $3 book than the $5.99 I paid for it.