The Sound of Stars

audio cd, 1 pages

Published Feb. 25, 2020 by Harlequin Audio and Blackstone Publishing, Inkyard Press.

ISBN:
9781094028996

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2 stars (1 review)

5 editions

[Adapted from initial review on Goodreads.]

2 stars

All right, I hope I'm being fair here. I'm aware that part of the reason I didn't like this book much was that it just very much wasn't for me - it has a specific target demographic (young teens who are immersed in pop culture) which I neither am, nor ever was, part of, and like much teen fiction with a more-or-less contemporary setting I found it somewhat alienating. The writing style, also, fails in the specific way that is pretty common (but not universal, which is why I keep trying) to writing for young people. Plus the basic plot - super-fast whirlwind romance between a disenfranchised person and a member of an oppressive class who is constantly pushing her sexual and romantic boundaries, but apparently that's fine and romantic and the start of something beautiful that will last forever even though they're teens who barely knew each other for …