Title: The Mixtape
Author: Brittainy Cherry
Publisher: Montlake
Publication date: July 1, 2021
Language: English
File size: 6312 KB
Print length: 333 pages
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Since the death of his twin brother, Oliver’s caught between pleasing his fans and finding himself. Emery finds him first.
Emery has never felt more alone. Raising her daughter is both her pleasure and her pain as she struggles to hold on to her job as a bartender and keep a roof over their heads. With no one to help them—no support system—any unexpected expense or late bill could turn their whole world upside down.
Reeling from the death of his twin brother and bandmate, rock star Oliver Smith is trying to drink his problems away. Apparently he isn’t very good at it; they follow him wherever he goes. Also in hot pursuit are the paparazzi, who catch Oliver at his lowest low.
He could have walked into any bar in California, but he walked into hers. Emery helps Oliver lose the crowd, and they find themselves alone: two people whose paths are marked with loss and pain. However, they hold an unshakable hope for healing. They find solace together, but can their love withstand the world?
I have always loved the stories and the way Cherry has of breaking you while you read it. I like her heroines and I liked Emery as well as Oliver, but although I loved the subject which for me is the most important thing in this book, the romance of these two main characters in the story was not. The truth is that I feel very sorry for what depression can do to people and I know from experience that many times we judge without knowing or trying to put ourselves in their shoes for a second. I’m learning and trying to be more understanding and find a way to help those in need, to be honest is hard and when you just can’t accomplish not even a little the feeling is not good, and let me tell you, it drown you, that I can say it.
“At night she’d lay beside me and for a few moments in my life, I’d pretend that the world wasn’t crashing around me and I’d feel less alone. Crazy how loneliness led people to places they probably didn’t belong anymore.”
I think the author treats this subject with a lot of respect and directing it in the right directions such as the professional help that is so necessary in these cases. Maybe it's just that most of the book depressed me because I got immersed in that life of Oliver and Sammy, with all that pain and guilt they carry when neither of them deserves it or is responsible, it was very sad to read, I definitely didn't enjoy those parts at all. What made the reading happy for me was reading Reese and also Emery, they are two characters that light up wherever they go and they have been the ones who have helped me to follow and finish the reading. With this I don't mean to say that the book is bad, on the contrary, I find it a very well narrated and well cared story, just that the romance part I never felt or believed it and after all the sadness I was looking for the romance to lift me and make me smile, but that just didn’t happen.
But this is just my opinion and I always invite you to read and form your own.
Big thanks to the author for providing me an ARC on exchange for my honest review.
Until the next one :)
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About Brittainy Cherry
Author Brittainy C. Cherry is an Amazon #1 bestselling author. She has been in love with words since the day she took her first breath. She graduated from Carroll University with a Bachelor Degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. Her novels have been published in 18+ countries around the world. Brittainy lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin with her fur babies.
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