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Eighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. Along with their bandmates, Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. But privately, cracks are starting to form: their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and Ruben confides in Zach that he’s feeling smothered by management’s pressure to stay in the closet. On a whirlwind tour through Europe, with both an unrelenting schedule and minimal supervision, Ruben and Zach come to rely on each other more and more, and their already close friendship evolves into a romance. But when they decide they’re ready to tell their fans and live freely, Zach and Ruben start to truly realize that they will never have the support of their management. How can they hold tight to each other when the whole world seems to want to come between them?
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This book was okay, I ended up skim reading the second half of it because I wanted to push myself through it but it also started to feel like torture. I understand the concept but the book as a whole was so annoying, it read exactly like a Wattpad fanfiction that had been going on 400 chapters too long just because the writer had fans to please and people still commenting about the cute moments and smut. And yes, the two main characters were cute! But the payoff for their relationship came way too soon and then it was them trying to work out how to be together but having all this backlash? And that just kept going on and on forever. It really did loose me, along with all the drama from the other members of the boyband. Was it a good idea and good representation? Yes. But did it execute it well? No, absolutely not. Like I said it read like a fanfiction, like it was written by someone who doesn’t know how fame or boybands or anything behind the scenes works at all. It lost all believability. And if it was written by someone like Taylor Jenkins Reid I think it would’ve been brilliant but, unfortunately, it really didn’t hit the mark and in a way that was very on the nose.
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