Alexia Mantzouranis

Identity

Listen, listen. I really liked this book at first and then I decided I actually didn’t like it. This is the embodiment of a 13 year old’s idea of falling in love with a rockstar. The amount of times I wanted to stop reading the book after just halfway were astronomical. I’m sorry but they were sooo cringe. And it was like the book was trying to be cool but also thought they were so deep at the same time. Also the ending when the second secret was spilled, what the hell?!?!? Literally came out of no where and didn’t make any sense. No foreshadowing it or anything. I’m so confused on why it was even added honestly.

Tiana holt

Seah Andrea

DNF'd at Chapter 9.


I heard of this book from bookstgram and it caught my attention because of that one part of Leo taking Trinity to a bookshop. This book feels like a thirteen year old wrote it on wattpad and called it a masterpiece. 



First of all, the characters are boring. A girl who hates music because her father died and "SINGS TO HER" when he was still alive. When you think about it, the reason is so weak. Why would you distance yourself from music? When you go to a supermaket, you hear music. When you ride a cab, the radio is on. The concept of her disliking music because it was a "bond you shared with your father" is too boring that I don't even care.

Leonidas is a brat. He's the reason why I DNF'd this book. If you could only see the annotations on my book about his personality and his attitude. I described him as a walking red flag. He's just so frustrating and annoying, knowing that he's the main character in the story. There are "Bad Boy Tropes", and there are just legit as*holes. He's just not likable IMO.

Secondly, the plot is weak. The triplets are in a band with "millions of views on their youtube". Leo (one of the twins) is in charge of the writing. He has no motivation to write which means the downfall of the band. Their controlling father sends them to a small town for a few months so that Leo can write new songs. I mean the other two siblings are just going to sit there and let their sibling to do all the writing? I know they offered to help him write and Leo refused, but that's it? No talking him out of it? No "come on. We'll think of something and you can check if it's to your liking" ok just sit around and let Leo stress over it I guess. 

Trinity has a crush in this Leo guy. Leo just wants to fuck her. Their relationship developed so fast that it feels like a terribly written wattpad book.

Lastly, I like the concept of the story being set in a gen z time period bacause you rarely see published books like that, but the author over explained everything that it makes it annoying for me. The story is so predictable to the point that you don't even care to continue reading because you already know what's going to happen because of the VERY COMMON conflict and tropes.

 A book can be salvaged if the plot is good, and the characters are likable, but I don't see anything that makes me want to continue reading it. I've seen wattpad stories that are better than this book. I've never hated a character so much. ( I could compare Leo to Hardin in just those three chapters.)

The way to describe this book is je ne sais quoi on how good this book is Trinity when something traumatic happened to her that lead her to hate music that she’s dating a person named Leonidas Drakos who is a rockstar and a part of a famous band and she DOSENT KNOW.  The relationship development of this book even tho it had a third act break up which I despise sometime but in this book it was written so perfectly.  ( this book has tropes of small town romance, secret identity, rockstar, grumpy x grumpy, secret relationship, celebrity romance, I hate that I love you, and 🌶🌶🌶/5 this book does mention stuff like overdose, loss of a loved one, suicide, and eating disorder) 

Identity

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