Seventeen-year-old Sacha McLeod isn’t looking for someone to rock her world. But when she hears the boy in the music store play the guitar, the music thrills her and she falls hard for Dylan and his sound.
Sacha finds herself spending less time with her violin and more time with this guy. Her plans for her violin-virtuoso future—and her self-confidence—are shattered when she screws up the audition for a summer music program. Failure isn’t something she’s had to face before, so when Dylan asks her to spend her vacation with him in the city, she lies to her parents, pretends she won a place in the summer school, and secretly moves in with Dylan.
She’s expecting romance, music, and passion, but when she finds herself playing second fiddle to Dylan’s newly acquired drug habit, she realizes despite what the songs say, sometimes love isn’t all you need.
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[I fix my eyes on the top line of sheet music, not looking at the row after row of sixteenth notes blackening the staves]
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(Evernight Teen, 1 February 2019, 263 pages, ebook, copy from the author and voluntarily reviewed)
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I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book. I really enjoy YA fiction. I tend to dislike romantic fiction. However, I liked the title, the cover and the premise so decided to give this book a chance. The book starts off in typical romance style when Sacha meets Dylan and sparks fly. This is where expectations of typical romances end. Their relationship is sweet and made me remember when I was a teenager in the heat of first, intense love. The book goes too much darker places than I was really expecting. I loved the way the book balances light and dark. My heart breaks for Sacha. The ending is heat-breaking.
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