Aztlanna
Mexico City
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Started well, turned into boring drivel
This started out cute, funny, and adorable. I enjoyed the first half.
It quickly devolved into boring drivel and I didn't even ship the romance by the end. Her parents were a mess, and the story got very weird. The heroine's mom had been a super fan of Xi Song since he was a little kid, and it was freaking bizarre and creepy AF. Supposedly, Xi Song rubbed her pregnant belly when he was a little kid & that was the first encounter between him and the heroine. Like, YIKES. Then they met again when she was a little kid, still creepy. The mom being obsessed with this piano player for twenty years was too far for me, as was the subplot where she RESOLUTELY would not allow her daughter to date, unless of course, it was her forever stan, Xi Song, in which case --GO GET IT, Mi DO. All of that sort of freaked me out. I definitely wasn't expecting those super weird vibes. The mom kept calling him her son & I was starting to worry that maybe they were going for a forbidden love incest story. Turns out, no, she's just an obsessive super fan.
Honestly, I didn't find any of that characters to be likable with the exception of the heroine. She was a bit ditzy, but good natured. I won't say she was immature because she was only 19, and I think that part was pretty accurate. Don't get me started on the hero. He was supposed to be on the autism spectrum, but that doesn't mean he can't use technology or show consideration for others. At the end, he left the heroine without saying bye and then ignored her for three weeks while he was on tour. The reason? He forgot his phone. Well, sure, Xi Song. How could you be expected to use email or ask someone else to pass a message in this day and age? There's no way he could've let her know that he wasn't able to read her messages? That's bullshit, plain and simple. In her shoes, I'd have assumed we're broken up. His explanation was gravely insufficient, and I wasn't on board with them getting together at the end.
tl;dr -- the premise was cute but it quickly devolved into weirdness and disappointment, do not recommend
It quickly devolved into boring drivel and I didn't even ship the romance by the end. Her parents were a mess, and the story got very weird. The heroine's mom had been a super fan of Xi Song since he was a little kid, and it was freaking bizarre and creepy AF. Supposedly, Xi Song rubbed her pregnant belly when he was a little kid & that was the first encounter between him and the heroine. Like, YIKES. Then they met again when she was a little kid, still creepy. The mom being obsessed with this piano player for twenty years was too far for me, as was the subplot where she RESOLUTELY would not allow her daughter to date, unless of course, it was her forever stan, Xi Song, in which case --GO GET IT, Mi DO. All of that sort of freaked me out. I definitely wasn't expecting those super weird vibes. The mom kept calling him her son & I was starting to worry that maybe they were going for a forbidden love incest story. Turns out, no, she's just an obsessive super fan.
Honestly, I didn't find any of that characters to be likable with the exception of the heroine. She was a bit ditzy, but good natured. I won't say she was immature because she was only 19, and I think that part was pretty accurate. Don't get me started on the hero. He was supposed to be on the autism spectrum, but that doesn't mean he can't use technology or show consideration for others. At the end, he left the heroine without saying bye and then ignored her for three weeks while he was on tour. The reason? He forgot his phone. Well, sure, Xi Song. How could you be expected to use email or ask someone else to pass a message in this day and age? There's no way he could've let her know that he wasn't able to read her messages? That's bullshit, plain and simple. In her shoes, I'd have assumed we're broken up. His explanation was gravely insufficient, and I wasn't on board with them getting together at the end.
tl;dr -- the premise was cute but it quickly devolved into weirdness and disappointment, do not recommend
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