How to Kill a Rock Star by Tiffanie DeBartolo
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- Stars
- ★★★★★
- Heat
- Fire
- Genre
- ContemporaryHumor
- Series
- Standalone
Recommendation
YOU GUYS. You FUCKING guys. Look here. Listen up. This doesn’t happen to me very often. Not very cussing often at all. But when it DOES happen? Holy damn, it happens.
While I will thoroughly enjoy a great many things, I don’t lose my noodle over a whole hell of a lot.
But dude…
I’ve lost my noodle for How to Kill a Rock Star.
You guys, look at me, look into my laser-boob eyes and listen to me.
READ. THIS. BOOK.
It’s a standalone, contemporary romance, that isn’t super smutty — WAIT A MINUTE WAIT A MINUTE, STAY WITH ME HERE.
I’m TELLING you.
I’m TELL. ING. YOU.
READ.
THIS.
BOOK.
I’m not even coming to you as a reviewer right now. I’m just Kyleigh. A reader. A lover of finding the needle in a haystack stories, and telling you “Eureka! I FOUND IT. It’s HERE, you guys!”
For everyone who has ever turned the last page of a book and felt fucking REBORN — read this book. This is a very special story, written in a very special voice. Tear your heart out, break you, restore you, change your life, and save your heathen souls. Deep breaths. Trust me. Please.
I love Paul goddamn Hudson so much it makes my pancreas hurt.
DO NOT MISS THIS STORY. [August 2014]
Publisher synopsis
When Eliza moves from Ohio to New York to work for a music magazine, she finds herself rooming with Paul, the lead singer in her brother Michael's band. Paul and Eliza hit it off immediately: both love the same singer/songwriter (who says things like "rock 'n' roll music is a dying man…. [i]t's a man being crucified"), both are orphans, and both think the other is hot stuff. It could be a decent romantic comedy, but DeBartolo aims for drama, and serves up uninspired prose and a skimpy plot. Paul and Eliza fall in love; he writes a song about her ("She is a virgin. She is a whore. She gives it all and I beg for more"); her fear of flying (her parents were killed in a plane crash) gets worse after September 11; Paul, on the brink of megastardom, refuses to tour unless she comes along; she sacrifices their relationship for the sake of his art. Complications ensue.
Review published August 12, 2014