Hm! Well, this was somehow better than I expected, but also disappointing in other ways. 

Fully transparency: I’ve never read a Patterson book in my life, but I’ll engage with any sort of media Dolly Parton has her names on, so, here we are. 

I enjoyed the build up at the beginning of the book with the main character trying to find anyone to take a chance on her (did anyone else get Burlesque the movie vibes???) and having an established musician take her under her wing. That was fun. 

Everything else around that was…. fine? I didn’t really live for any of the other characters, the drama, or the “action”. It was also just “meh” after an otherwise pretty good buildup. 

You can tell Dolly’s life was loosely weaved into the book, so it was also fun to pick apart in that sense.