Mildly spoilery, avoid if you don't want that!



So, for being based on the Britney and Justin conflict this was really boring for me. Everything read very cerebral and not emotional, and the characters were really not described or fleshed out enough for me to believe in the HEA. The single POV also did not help, and the push and pull between Katee // Kathleen's before and now segments that still tried to make me, the reader, feel there was some mysterious reasons behind her big breakup with Ryan (clearly she fucked Cal) didn't really work for me.

ALSO ALSO I never felt Cal really took ownership for how Ryan threw Kathleen completely to the wolves and the whims of the media for what they both did, together. Cheating takes two, and he should have stood with her if he actually did love her, career be damned. Ugh, and I don't feel like he really earned her forgiveness and definitely not mine.

Overall this felt very enamored with its smartness instead of making me emotionally invested in the relationship, and def not a b romance for sure.

*reviewed from a complementary copy provided by LJ