Title: Open Road
Summer
Author: Emery
Lord
Publisher: Walker
Publication Date: April
15, 2014
Genres: YA,
Romance
Reviewed by: Ellen
Fritz
Ellen’s rating: 3/5
SUMMARY
After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend,
Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best
friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her
own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect
opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. But
when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm
proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free
existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of
fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right
person is always a risk worth taking. A fresh new voice in contemporary
romance, Emery Lord’s gorgeous writing hits all the right notes.
REVIEW
Open Road Summer with its upbeat
beginning captivated me right away. Reagan O'Neill, in an attempt to put her
troubled, wild-child past behind her, accompanies her best friend, singer Lilah
Montgomery, on her twenty-four-city summer tour. Unfortunately bad publicity
brings Matt Finch in as opening act and fake boyfriend for Lilah, and Reagan's
resolve to stay out of trouble is tested.
I absolutely loved the close friendship between Lilah,
or Dee as she is known to her friends, and Reagan. Dee, who has to recover from
a painful break up while dealing with bad publicity, as well as the normal ups
and downs of a busy tour, certainly needs Reagan by her side.
Reagan has a criminal record and her own bad
relationship to put behind her. Although she is the perfect best friend to Dee,
she is rather hateful towards any girl who as much as dare to look at Matt
Finch. Reagan may be determined to put her drinking, smoking, criminal past
behind her but she is still in the habit of hitting on every good looking boy
that crosses her path. In the end I really don't think she deserves to get
together with a good, kind guy like Matt Finch.
Despite the lively start of this novel, the story
slows down to a crawl towards the middle as a great deal of time is spent on
Reagan's romantic interludes with Matt and their discussions about their respective
pasts.
Although Open
Road Summer was a bit heavy on the romance and coming-to-terms-with-the-past
side for my taste, I still found it a relaxing and heartwarming read.
PURCHASE LINKS
ABOUT the AUTHOR
I write books about
complicated families and the friends who save your life just by showing up, your
worst mistakes, that boy who gets you like no one else ever has, and the summer
that changed everything.
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