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Who He Is (2013)

by Shanora Williams(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Shanora Williams

series

FireNine

review 1: A DNF AT 5 HOURS INTO THE AUDIOBOOK (THERE WAS A TOTAL OF ABOUT 10 HOURS WORTH)The male lead, Gage Grendel is a douche bag, scum-bucket, and A-hole, and I think maybe that's why I didn't enjoy this book so much. Eliza Smith, is sweet girl who is a virgin with a traumatic, abusive, childhood she experienced in her mother and step-father's home. She's 21 years old and is now living with her father, the manager of the Fire Nine band. I liked her dad, but I questioned his wisdom for his inexperienced, lost daughter to pressure her to come along on a tour with a bunch of man-whore, rockers, with booze & women. How would that be helpful for her, aside from infiltrating her life with stress and pressures with the wrong type of guys? Also, where the hell was he when she was be... moreing abused in her mother's home? Mid-way through the story, that aspect is still not clear. Well, due to all of the favorable reviews I kept waiting for things to get better, but at 5 hours, well the relationship between lead rock star singer Gage and Eliza was just terrible--Too angsty with minimal relational gains for my taste. I just can't get my head around a male lead who pressured the virgin-female lead to be with him (which within itself is shaky since he has a girlfriend), yet delivers on a constant flow of double messages. He whored around in front of her with his "girlfriend" and tons of random girls, yet wanted Eliza to be with him? What the????? Also, he made it clear he didn't want to date her or have a relationship, he just wanted her to give in to him at some casual level. My feeling on the matter was that he was emotionally abusive to her. And, well from the reviews of the book 2, the womanizing (at least in regard to keeping Penelope in his life) will still be an issue…sorry, I'm out! Too bad, because it seemed like it could have been a really great story. The narrator was good, too bad this was such an emotionally nauseating listen.
review 2: I enjoyed this book. Sort of a typical bad boy rocker falls for good, virgin girl. They both have secret pasts, but eventually declare their love. Of course love isn't always enough, she has dreams of school and art. He wants her with him on the road. At times I felt like slapping some sense into them both. The best part of this book was the ending...yes it's a cliffhanger, but oh my it just broke my heart. I couldn't wait to start the next book in the series, and so far I still want to slap some sense into them... less

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