I love a novel where the author throws a whole bunch of problems at the heroine because that's a great opportunity to see some real character development and growth. The novel started fast, but the pace slowed down a lot and never picked up again. The character development was flat, and I found it difficult to connect with any of them. A lot of paragraphs are spent discussing mature ways to relate to one another, but none of the characters seem to mature during the course of the story. When Emily catches Rae dealing drugs out of her apartment, I think she's justified in getting angry. Instead, she ends up apologizing for sounding like their mother, and Rae's loser boyfriend suddenly becomes a sweet guy.

Emily's relationship with Simon doesn't really develop, either. When he comes back from a tour, she gets mad at him when she sees a photo of him sniffing a line of coke from a fan's chest. He doesn't bother to explain. At the end, they make up and he promises to not do drugs again -- and she apologizes for getting mad. At best, this novel explains why relationships of famous people fail. I like to feel hopeful and happy at the end of a romance novel, but this one left me deflated.

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Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Clare
June 17, 2010