Title: Dirty Little Secret
Author: Jennifer Echols
Pages: 273
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, also classified as New Adult
Published: July 16th 2013 by MTV Books
Source: Library Book
Synopsis:
From the author of the “real page-turner” (Seventeen) Such a Rush comes an unforgettable new drama that follows friends-turned-lovers as they navigate the passions, heartbreaks, and intrigue of country music fame.
Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away.
Bailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the mall, Bailey meets Sam, a handsome and oh-so-persuasive guitarist with his own band. He knows Bailey’s fiddle playing is just the thing his band needs to break into the industry. But this life has broken Bailey’s heart once before. She isn’t sure she’s ready to let Sam take her there again…
Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away.
Bailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the mall, Bailey meets Sam, a handsome and oh-so-persuasive guitarist with his own band. He knows Bailey’s fiddle playing is just the thing his band needs to break into the industry. But this life has broken Bailey’s heart once before. She isn’t sure she’s ready to let Sam take her there again…
Jennifer Echols you've done it again. You have created a male love interest that I HATE. I think this is boy number three. Why can't you write them like you did for forget you and love story?
I did not like Sam what-so-ever.
Back to the story....
Okay so the story is about Bailey (a fiddle player). Bailey and her sister Julie are close, and a duo country music act. That is until, a record company says they only want Julie, and Bailey's dreams are shattered.
Bailey is told to stop playing music, because the record company don't want people finding out they only wanted one sister.
Its summer, and Bailey is living with her Grandfather who gets her a job doing impersonations of country bands at the local mall (shopping centre for me). This is where Bailey meets Sam (the heartbreaker).
Okay. There is SO MUCH wrong with them (Bailey and Sam). And really its mainly just him. He is a player for one thing, he USES people, mostly girls. He manipulates people to get what he wants. He lies, he is an arse. HE IS JUST HORRIBLE. And Bailey for some reason likes horrible guys. She should have stayed very far away from him.
When he finds something about a person he wants he will do ANYTHING for that thing, and then leave said person hanging off a bridge.
Sam and Bailey's relationship to me was toxic. It seemed one sided, unless Sam didn't get what he wanted from Bailey yet.
The band. Where do I start? Those people should never be in a band together, there is just too much toxic energy and bad vibes. And the band should not be made up of two couples, with one of the guys having dated both of the GIRLS.
Okay. Bailey and Bailey's dream. I don't like how her family handled it. How could you raise a child to have a dream, and try your hardest to reach that dream, and then decided HANG ON, you can't have that dream anymore. You can't just snatch something so essential to a person away form them, after you've taught them to only DREAM that DREAM.
I hate how Bailey's parents used her college tuition against her, to keep her out of the public's eye.
I hated her parents.
And Julie, how could she do that to her sister? I mean (not the contract part), but abandoning her, after Bailey was abandoned by everyone else. That is not what best friends do, let alone sisters who are best friends.
I just did not enjoy this story, it made me angry and upset.
But I did enjoy the writing which Jennifer Echols' does well, and that is why the story gets 1.5 stars.
Rating: ★ 1.5
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