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- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Death, Gore, and Car accident
Minor: Infidelity, Suicide, and War
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Gaslighting
Minor: Infidelity, Mental illness, and Pregnancy
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Grief
Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness, and Mass/school shootings
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This book has two points of view. The first is Logan Gray and he is Hollywood’s bad boy – a talented but troubled actor who the public love to hate. He has had several tapes be released and has been known for sleeping with everyone in his circle. But there is a much deeper story behind the bad boy persona. Logan is broken and doesn’t know how to fix himself. He was sexual abused multiple times as a child and due to that he shuts himself off, so no one can hurt him again. He lives in the lands of dreams where sex and drugs are available whenever he wants. The second point of view is Mattie Cole, and he is the up-and-coming golden boy, adored by all but is plagued by insecurities. He has made it to Hollywood where being gay isn’t a sin and everyone is quite accepting, but he still feels guilty for his sexuality. The reason – his father hasn’t accepted him and ignores him when he is home, his sister and mum are encouraging and promised to love him no matter what, his father believes he will end up in hell due to his religious beliefs. But now Mattie is working on a big movie with Logan, and they are the leads in the romance film. Logan claimed that Matt had zero talent before they started filming, which send the film’s publicity into a nosedive. To create positive buzz, the two are persuaded into a fake-dating scheme – but as the two actors get to know their new characters, real feelings start to develop. As public scrutiny intensifies and old wounds resurface, the two must fight for their relationship and their love.
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Racism
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This book has two points of view. The first is Tallulah. She is smart, vivacious and studying to be a marine biologist. She is also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighbourhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween. Tallulah wants to keep her head down and get through school without getting any more attention, even though she needs the money from Burgess, she is nervous about living with him and has even asked for extra security measures to be taken. The second point of view is Burgess, he believes his tween daughter needs help with fitting in at school and according to everyone besides Burgess, he needs to get back on the dating scene and Tallulah has decided to show him how. But as the boundaries set by both of them are slowly crossed and Burgess finds himself pulled between his daughter, who wants her parents to get back together, and his insane chemistry with Tallulah, a huge rift is formed, and Tallulah does the right thing and breaks her own heart and walks away. Though Burgess knows it’s for the best – he's too jaded, with too much baggage – a chance meeting, and a new push from his daughter, forces him to put everything on the line and fight to prove he learned his lessons well and is worthy of a happily ever after with Tallulah.
So unlike Fangirl Down where both are on a character development journey, Burgess has his character development within the last five chapters, the rest of the novel he is a possessive, non-communicated asshole. Burgess knew that Tallulah had gone through hell with her ex/stalker and then says lines that makes me want to throw up and I've not even had a stalker, but if I had a stalker, I would have run for the hills with the way he was talking to Tallulah. Tallulah sort of had a character development as she grows to be more confident but again, they just didn’t speak about the important things and then was wondering why they ended up having a huge fight over miscommunication like Jesus. Plus, if someone locked me in a cupboard for 2 days, it would take a hell of a lot more than a bodyguard whilst doing stupid shit to get over it. She needed therapy. I think it didn’t help that we had such a perfect boyfriend and slow burn with Wells and Josephine and then this book was quite small and besides the smut there wasn’t really anything there, I was waiting and hoping for more. Like the stalker to return, but he was dead so no issues. The main issue was they didn’t want people to get the wrong idea and then his daughter caught them and kicked off like, okay? I would have liked more hockey and the team rinsing Burgess and introducing themselves to Talluah and I would have liked more bonding between Lissa and Tallulah because besides Tallulah doing Lissa’s hair and helping her with lines and knowing her favourite bands, there was nothing and it was pretty basic.
I liked the age gap aspect especially with Burgess falling first and then he fully shits himself when he realised, he fell for someone who was a lot younger than him, and he couldn’t and shouldn’t like her, but he does. The conversations they did have whilst doing things like skinny dipping and going to single mixers sort of helped moved the book along and you realised why they acted the way they did.
I will forever read whatever Tessa Bailey writes, but I don’t think anything can top Fangirl Down with this series and I’m also scared if the next book is a stepsiblings romance with Sig and Chloe.
Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Stalking
Minor: Confinement, Death, Violence, and Alcohol
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, and Murder
Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, and Sexual content
Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Vomit
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Classism
Minor: Sexism and Sexual harassment
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Overall, the book was an easy and quick read and because the writing was amazing, the storyline gives me the creeps and it was overall brilliant I gave it four stars. I cannot wait for the next book in the series and see how much Lucian is going to cause so much trouble and how much Garcia is going to want to get him as well as Robert.
Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Sexism