Melody Gallard and Beat Dawkins are the children of the famous singing duo Steel Birds. The band broke up 30 years ago and Melody and Beat’s moms haven’t spoken since. Even though they only met once as teenagers, when a producer offers them a lot of money to reunite the duo on live television, Melody and Beat agree to work together to reunite the Steel Birds and possibly fall in love along the way.
This is the first book by Tessa Bailey that I’ve read and I wanted to like it so much. Unfortunately, I didn’t. At first, I thought the setup was super cute but the more I read, the more unrealistic everything was.
I didn’t like the romance. Beat and Melody met once when they were 16 and have not met or spoken to each other since. Now they are 30 and they meet again to plan the reunion show and it’s insta-love, which is a trope that I do not care for. I have no clue why they like each other but somehow at the end of two weeks they are madly in love, best friends, consider each other their soulmate, and cannot exist without the other. Plus, the constant inner monologue of Beat wanting to protect Melody from everything (?) was a bit over the top.
Speaking of Beat, I did not like him either. Both his inner and outer monologues were way too intense. I’m not even going to touch his intimacy issues because the way that plotline is resolved, he could have settled it a lot sooner if he had just gone to therapy. Instead, we are forced to listen to his cringey internal monologues.
The blackmail scheme was another plotline that could have been resolved so much sooner if Beat had just talked to his mother. They seem like they have a fine relationship so I didn’t understand why he couldn’t tell her.
This is just me but the other problem I had with this book was that every time I read “Beat” I read it as “Bear” which kept throwing me off. But I think that’s because I can’t get over the fact that the character’s name was Beat.
This wasn’t a horrible book and I will probably give it three stars on Goodreads. It just didn’t fit with me.
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Haha! I just knew it. I’ve felt the same exact way about the last three books of Tessa Bailey’s I’ve read. I’m so impressed that authors write and complete books but I think I may have outgrown her books already. Womp womp. Now we know, right! That’s the beauty of reading. 💕
I was very bummed that I didn’t love it more!