★★★★★
"Music major Maddie Taylor just finished her junior year of college and has a summer internship lined up with the LA Philharmonic, yet every night she practices guitar and secretly dreams of a louder life. But geeky girls like her don't get to be rock stars. That is, until tattooed singer Jared Cross catches her playing guitar and invites her to join his band on The Sound, a reality TV show competition.
Once on the show, Maddie discovers there’s more to Jared than his flirty smile and bad boy reputation – and that he’s just as big a geek as she is. With each performance their attraction becomes impossible to ignore, but when the show pressures them to stay single they’re forced to keep their relationship secret.
As the competition heats up, Jared will do whatever it takes for his band to win, and Maddie must decide if following her dream is worth losing her heart."
Oh, I absolutely loved this book!
This is a lighthearted (and short) standalone romance that just makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, (and craving to go listen to some rock music). There were (obviously) more angsty parts, where someone got really mad or sad, but you have to have some of that in a story, otherwise it's like the ending wouldn't be worth it, it's kind of like the thing "what matters is the journey, not the destination".
It features a band (that Maddie joins) participating in a show much like The Voice called The Sound, but with bands instead of solo artists. Basically all of the drama you find in the book comes from them being in the competition. The book covers the time from when they get an audition (like the blind auditions on The Voice) to the final live show when the winner is announced.
It was a nice change of scenery for me, since a lot (if not most) of the book I read are about people with some type or another of inner demons and usually with some big secret they keep from their loved ones. This one has none of that, I'd say it's pretty straight forward, with some not-so-nice family history from both main characters, Jared and Maddie. You get to know that history fairly quickly, but the story still sucks you in.
One other thing I really liked about this book is that it took you backstage in the life of a contest like this. Obviously it is fiction, so I don't know the reasons the author decided to portray certain characters and events the way she did, but I thoroughly enjoyed the look I had at how a television music contest might work.
There will be two novellas to complete the stories of the whole band, one from before this one, and the other after.
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