i read and reviewed this book back in january 2023 and i have recently discovered the author is a zionist, so fuck her!

ps: going back to my review makes me realize i used to hate "being mean" and thought of 3 star reviews as bad reviews when i absolutel hated every character's guts. yikes. 

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please don't come at me for my rating, let me explain myself, lmao.

i am writing this review two weeks after finishing the book and i've been pondering between giving it 4 or 3.75 stars. i choose the latter because i spent about half of the book annoyed at the thoughts of "oh no, this man is going to cheat on his wife AND SHE DOES NOT DESERVE THAT" and "why can't he let his members feel included and do their thing" so yeah, maybe billy was my main problem. 
i am guessing my other problem were... the songs? i know it's a story about a band but songs in books are just not my thing. in fact, i must confess i haven't really read all of the lyrics at the back, i'm sorry!

although i did not really like billy, i loved the way tjr writes her characters. i mean, so far, this is her first book im reading (i did it for the show, duh) but, i don't know, despite the interview format, she somehow managed to give each one of the characters a complex and unique personality. even if you dislike them or they're not that important in the plot, you get to develop feelings towards them.

for example, when pete said he was leaving the band i got genuinely sad, and when his reasoning was something like "im always saying this stuff doesn't matter", idk, i just felt something.

moreover, there were several quotes that really hit close. so i am really looking forward to read tjr's other books!

but going back to this one, it was not bad. it was actually good but i guess the plot didn't really impact me but instead it was the deepness of the characters and the way the author managed to make this a personal story shared between a bunch of people. 

so, yeah, i can't wait to watch the show!