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Between You and Me
by Emma McLaughlin
What happens when you are followed by millions . . . and loved by none? Twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade is trying to build a life for herself far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. Until she gets the call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant— an offer she can’t refuse.
Logan hasn’t seen Kelsey in person since their parents separated them as kids; in the meantime, Kelsey Wade has grown into Fortune Magazine’s most powerful celebrity. But their reunion is quickly overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her parents as Logan discovers that, beneath the glossy façade, the wounds that caused them to be wrenched apart so many years ago have insidiously warped into a show-stopping family business.
As Kelsey tries desperately to break away and grasp at a “real” life, beyond the influence of her parents and managers, she makes one catastrophic misstep after another, and Logan must question if their childhood has left them both too broken to succeed. Logan risks everything to hold on, but when Kelsey unravels in the most horribly public way, Logan finds that she will ultimately have to choose between rescuing the girl she has always protected . . . and saving herself.
I liked this book conceptually. The way the authors went about it didn’t entirely work for me, though. It felt like it was based off of Britney Spears’ life, except with a cousin thrown in.
I felt that Logan, the main character, was incredibly one-dimensional, and I simply couldn’t get into her head. I felt like chunks of the book had been cut out. Where was any relationship development between Logan and Finn? Or Kelsey and Aaron, for that matter. Why was Kelsey’s father allowed anywhere near his family again?
There were just too many holes in this book for me to truly enjoy it. I needed a whole lot more. I would have rated it three stars, but the ending was absolute crap. How could Logan just leave her there with them? How is that doing the right thing, even if it was what Kelsey asked her to do? It was irresponsible in the highest degree.
Logan hasn’t seen Kelsey in person since their parents separated them as kids; in the meantime, Kelsey Wade has grown into Fortune Magazine’s most powerful celebrity. But their reunion is quickly overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her parents as Logan discovers that, beneath the glossy façade, the wounds that caused them to be wrenched apart so many years ago have insidiously warped into a show-stopping family business.
As Kelsey tries desperately to break away and grasp at a “real” life, beyond the influence of her parents and managers, she makes one catastrophic misstep after another, and Logan must question if their childhood has left them both too broken to succeed. Logan risks everything to hold on, but when Kelsey unravels in the most horribly public way, Logan finds that she will ultimately have to choose between rescuing the girl she has always protected . . . and saving herself.
I liked this book conceptually. The way the authors went about it didn’t entirely work for me, though. It felt like it was based off of Britney Spears’ life, except with a cousin thrown in.
I felt that Logan, the main character, was incredibly one-dimensional, and I simply couldn’t get into her head. I felt like chunks of the book had been cut out. Where was any relationship development between Logan and Finn? Or Kelsey and Aaron, for that matter. Why was Kelsey’s father allowed anywhere near his family again?
There were just too many holes in this book for me to truly enjoy it. I needed a whole lot more. I would have rated it three stars, but the ending was absolute crap. How could Logan just leave her there with them? How is that doing the right thing, even if it was what Kelsey asked her to do? It was irresponsible in the highest degree.