sorry I don't even have a proper review for this. I'll just say this, if you're going to make something so so wildly problematic you have a duty to make it interesting/entertaining. the plot was not exciting however there were some wild lines that actually made me have to put the book down and giggle to. so yes I hated this but I did have fun and omgggg the movie is gonna slay so so hard I just know it. this is basically about a self insert main character who is the single mother of a 13 year old "august moon" fan (august moon is this world's equivalent of one direction). the daughter gets tickets to a meet and greet and hayes (harry styles) takes a liking to her and the rest of.the book is them going to various cities across the world and having sex. here are some notes (spoilers ahead)

- at the start of the story hayes (harry styles) is 20 and solene is 39😅😅
- we later find out that hayes has been into older women since he lost his virginity at 14 to the 19 year old sister of the louis equivalent bandmate in the story, oliver 😅😅😅 um😅😅 look 20 and 39 is wildly problematic but 14 and 19 is just fully illegal. this is not condemned by the story btw. I thought they brought this up as like a terrible backstory thing that hayes has to.work through or whatever but no?? solene meets the girl and thinks "wow she's so hot I want to high five 14 year old hayes, I bet he was so happy when this happened" um no this is a crime??????????
- why is there a mention that solene and her ex husband discuss the conflict in gaza when they're having their dinner to discuss their kid. why is that included😭😭
- it is revealed like 75% into the story that the first thought that hayes has when he meets the main girl is "I want to fuck her mouth"🤩😚 and then later on in the story the THIRTEEN year old daughter gets her braces off and hayes goes "wow you guys have the same mouth"😳😳😳😳😳😳 um😳😳😳😳 what was the reason for this
- to my understanding the author is not french and this is very clearly an author insert novel so this author definitely wants to be french sooo bad and probably had/has a paris obsession 🤭🤭
- so we all know that this is basically 1D fanfic but one of the funniest things is that the names.are changed to hayes (the author's irl husband last name🤭🤭), oliver, rory, simon and LIAM. hahhahahahahah not important enough to change his name ig😭😭
- also this book misgenders sam smith😭😭 it was published before they came out so like obviously it's fine but it feels weird to not mention it😭😭
- also for a book that has so much sex there is surprisingly little sex in this😭😭 like they talk about fucking quite a lot but the actual scenes are either skipped over/summarised after they say what they're going to do to each other or they're very very short. like why are we here. there is not really a plot so why are we skipping over this stuff.
- also hayes implies that maybe he and louis/oliver has a thing???? ugh I can't with this
- this book is very firmly set in 2014 which I find to be an odd choice. like sure it can vaguely be set in 2014 but why did you have to say that you watched the netherlands vs. chile match?? stuff like his happened a lot and I was quite perplexed by this choice. it dates the book but in such a strange way cause like these are not important landmarks of time.
- a complication brought on by this is that isabelle (daughter) finds out about their relationship towards the end of 2014 and it is mentioned that she listens to taylor swift's new album to drown out the pain because taylor is the only person that understands her (real). however I think this is hilarious because august moon is the only real big boy band in this universe, which implies that one direction is not a thing but 1989 (released in october 2014) is primarily about harry styles, member of one direction so I want to know what this universe's late 2014 taylor release sounds like. anyway this is the problem with dating your books so specifically especially if you're talking about celebrities 😭😭
- also speaking of isabelle finding out, she's upset that they're together but like, cause she loves hayes?? and she's like you took him?? huh?? like I feel like she'd be upset cause that's fucked up and it will be embarrassing for her but like?? huh???
- my last point which seems obvious is that this is very very obviously author insert fanfiction, not from the parallels between one direction and august moon or whatever but in it's structure. for those who are not fanfiction connessiours, in a lot of romance stories particularly on wattpad, you'll have the couple meet and then instantly be attracted to each other and get together in the first 25ish percent of the story. then the rest of the book of the couple going through various things. this works in fanfiction because the reader goes in already caring about the couple and you don't need to convince them to root for these two together. in "original" fiction, these format doesn't work as well. I'm not going into this as a massive "hayes campell" fan (or even a harry styles fan tbh) and the book doesn't do a lot to convince that this pair should be together. 

 
this book was also just so incredibly "not like other girls-y" which you know I just loathe. so interesting that book that should be celebrating pop and teenage girlhood manages to put down all those things and get still the main character gets to experience it all. I hate it. anyway j could talk about this forever but that's all the thoughts that I could be bothered to write down. if you want to have a conversation about the ethics of real person fanfiction please lmk and we can do that in our own time🤩🤩 1 star p.s. i august moon sounds way too similar to austin moon