Kennedy Ryan

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aleksandra

1/5

I had it on my tbr for over two years, so I finally decided to give it a chance. Well, it turns out it wasn't my best decision.

My main problem here was the heroine, Bristol. She was definitely not a 'girls girly'. She was so judgmental and presumptuous.


  
    "My eyes do the slow crawl from the girl’s hot pink toenails in her wedge heels, over the skimpy cut-off denim shorts and the bikini top, which barely bridles her breasts. Bright blue eyes and blonde hair complete the California package. If all the girls look like this, and a quick glance around Mick’s dining room tells me a lot of them do, I may reconsider my secret plan to move here when I graduate."
  


You may reconsider your plan to move here because the women in California look different than you? I forgot that you wearing a leather jacket and boots is so mysterious and different. 


  
    “I wasn’t judging her.” His look and the twist of his lips say otherwise. 
“Okay, maybe I was judging her a little bit.” I laugh and am glad when he laughs, too. “She’s a pretty girl, and sometimes they get a bad rap.”
  


You were totally judging her and WHAT??? So when a girl is pretty and takes care of herself, you assume she has a 'bad rap'. I don’t even know how to comment that, because I have no words. 


  
    "I sigh and nod my head out to the hall. “Look, we better get going.”
“What’s the hurry? Rhyson’s at the studio and Grady’s at his retreat all week. Just an empty house waiting for us.”
“I’m ready to go. I have better things to do than give a perfect stranger a grand tour of my place when I need to be working.”
  


Or here, when she wanted to pee, so she went to Grip's apartment and it was so obvious that he felt uncomfortable with it, but she started walking and looking at it and was far from leaving his place.


The situation with her brother. 


  
    “I don’t know if I can do that shit again, Bris. It takes so much, and I only got through it with the drugs. I don’t want to create a situation where I need those again. If there was one thing I learned when I kicked the habit, it was that I have an addictive personality. Music is the only thing I need to be addicted to.”

"I know it’s farfetched. I know it’s irrational to stake my entire college career, my future, on the dreams Rhyson isn’t even dreaming, but to hear Grip affirm my lunacy chafes."
  


Her brother ran away from their family because his parents took advantage of him for money because he was a piano prodigy. He started doing something else, related to music, and she came to him and said that he should come back and she would be his manager. Girl. Leave this guy alone. I know he is your brother and you want good for him, but he was miserable. Also, the fact that she choose her future career based on his talent, even though she didn’t talk to him for years (it was his fault as he thought their parents made her reach out to him to go back to his piano career), was just plain ridiculous. 


  
    “Don’t you have any dreams of your own?” he asks."
  


Yes exactly. I know her family had some music business, but she planned her future based on her brother's passion. The one he ran away from, because he was unhappy about it. Quite sad and not very smart.


Grip and Jimmy were the only characters I liked. 

Maybe it's just me, but when I picked this novella up I expected something different.

sxc angst with beautiful writing !! oop that ending tho

sxc angst with beautiful writing !! oop that ending tho

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