Thursday, May 4, 2017

Xander Part One (Rockstar #9) By: Anne Mercier

(N) They met when they were eight years old on the playground and that was the turning point for Xander. Tera stole Xander's heart the first time he laid eyes on her and heard her off-key singing. Everything was perfect, until it wasn't.
      It didn't take long for Xander to figure out that Tera was much too good for him so he did what he thought was best and let her go. Soon Xander would learn just how wrong he was in doing so. Tera was his everything and without her he just wasn't the same anymore.
      When the two finally got together Xander becomes whole again. Now his life has meaning. Being with Tera was perfect, together they loved fiercely and completely.
       Then the time comes when Xander is given the chance to live out his dream. Xander doesn't want to leave Tera behind but she encourages him to go out and live his dream. And as Falling Down gains more success Xander gets pulled further away from Tera and as Tera gains her own success the distance only grows more immensely.
       They both want to live out their dreams and know that their love is strong enough to survive this time and distance apart. Then the unthinkable happens and nothing will ever be the same again.
 
      I along with so many other fans out there have been waiting a long time for this book to come out. Xander has been a central character to the Rockstar series since the beginning and now we can finally read his story.
      Because I had to wait so long to read Xander and because the release date kept getting pushed back over and over again I wasn't sure if by the time this book came out that it would live to the hype that I had made in my head. And sadly Xander wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be. I mean it did have its good parts for the most part (the beginning and that ending wow. With the way Xander ends it explains so much as to why we haven't seen Tera up until this point when she had been in the guys' life for so long) but it was the middle that I really just could not get into. I mean about halfway through the book I found myself thinking, what else could there possibly be to tell in this story? And that's when I was only about half way through the book. But I do have to say that if you do keep reading which you should those last couple of chapters seemed to come just out of nowhere and as I said already explained so much.
      While I didn't particularly like Xander's story overall I did like getting to know more about Xander and his band mates when they were younger and just how much Xander's dad was a part of all of their lives. But what was particularly interesting was reading just how long Xander has been in love with Tera because up until this point we only got the small bits from the Xander Christmas stories and to be truly honest I didn't think that I was really going to like Tera but I'm happy to say that I was happy to be wrong.
       Even though I wasn't fully invested in this story I'm still going to read the next part to Xander and Tera's story. Because while Xander and Tera's story wasn't my favorite out of this series it still got to me and I very much want to find out what happens in part two.

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