RORY SAMANTHA GREEN
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Playing Along (2012)
George Bryce is the lead singer of a successful British band, Thesis, but typical rock star he is not, more of a sensitive, old soul. And while he has the world at his feet, and opportunities to have the wild, debauched life of a celebrity, he feels something lacking in his life. Lexi Jacobs knows that feeling. She had her whole life mapped out with her high school sweetheart Andrew, but then he came out as gay and Lexi has been stuck in a sort of limbo, without any real purpose or focus. Now George and Lexi's worlds are about to collide. I didn't know anything about the author before reading this brilliant novel, but she is firmly planted on my literary radar now. Told through the interweaving voices of George and Lexi, Rory's writing style is fantastic and she wonderfully manages to evoke both characters and the short snappy dual narrative is hugely engaging. I particularly enjoyed the brief encounters between George and Lexi that precipitated their eventual meeting. It is a hugely romantic love story, with a cute lead and some rock and roll elements thrown in through the eccentric Fanny Arundel and George's bandmate Duncan. I felt some of the subplots, particularly the relationship between Polly and George could have been more developed, but this took nothing away from the main story. A highly addictive read, this book welcomes a new name to the world of chick lit. (JC)
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