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A review by obsidian_blue
Make Me a Mixtape by Jennifer Whiteford
3.0
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
"Make Me a Mixtape" follows Allie Andrews. Ten years ago, Allie was part of a punk all girl band that dissolved when things were said and Allie was crushed. She ran back to her aunt Mindy and got a job working at her café in Brooklyn. When Allie goes to deliver a coffee order to an office that makes podcasts (why would these people have an office....anyway) she meets a man named Ryan Abernathy who recognizes Allie and is a fan of her music. Ryan drops by the café and starts to push Allie into making music and reaching out to her old band mates.
Allie was exhausting. She's in her 30s and kept acting like she was brand new to people and relationships. It did not work and her behavior throughout the book got on my nerves.
Ryan was not very developed. It took til the 43 percent mark we got any type of backstory on him. Allie falling for him immediately didn’t even make sense when you read about her prior romances. It just limped along. Also, honestly, Ryan bugged me. Him ignoring Allie's request to stop calling her something that she didn't like and he kept doing it bothered me. And his doing the love bombing (that's what it was) but then the I don't know if we can be more crap was too much.
The mess with Mindy made zero sense and I just gave up on it after a while. How much money do you supposedly have that you can live in France for several years? I just went...sure.
Ren was an okay character, but them and Anisha felt like they were in a whole other book at times.
The book dragged and at one point I reread Allie telling Ryan something she had told him several chapters earlier. And it was like that for most of the book it seemed. I would go, didn't they talk about this? Or they talking about it again? It just got so boring.
I will say one positive, Whiteford does a great job of making me feel like I am in Brooklyn during the fall and winter. The description of things hit me with a nostalgia feeling. But not enough to make me give this book more than 3 stars.
The ending just read super unrealistic. For a lot of the characters honestly. I was more interested in Ren and Anisha honestly (and even that didn’t feel realistic).
"Make Me a Mixtape" follows Allie Andrews. Ten years ago, Allie was part of a punk all girl band that dissolved when things were said and Allie was crushed. She ran back to her aunt Mindy and got a job working at her café in Brooklyn. When Allie goes to deliver a coffee order to an office that makes podcasts (why would these people have an office....anyway) she meets a man named Ryan Abernathy who recognizes Allie and is a fan of her music. Ryan drops by the café and starts to push Allie into making music and reaching out to her old band mates.
Allie was exhausting. She's in her 30s and kept acting like she was brand new to people and relationships. It did not work and her behavior throughout the book got on my nerves.
Ryan was not very developed. It took til the 43 percent mark we got any type of backstory on him. Allie falling for him immediately didn’t even make sense when you read about her prior romances. It just limped along. Also, honestly, Ryan bugged me. Him ignoring Allie's request to stop calling her something that she didn't like and he kept doing it bothered me. And his doing the love bombing (that's what it was) but then the I don't know if we can be more crap was too much.
The mess with Mindy made zero sense and I just gave up on it after a while. How much money do you supposedly have that you can live in France for several years? I just went...sure.
Ren was an okay character, but them and Anisha felt like they were in a whole other book at times.
The book dragged and at one point I reread Allie telling Ryan something she had told him several chapters earlier. And it was like that for most of the book it seemed. I would go, didn't they talk about this? Or they talking about it again? It just got so boring.
I will say one positive, Whiteford does a great job of making me feel like I am in Brooklyn during the fall and winter. The description of things hit me with a nostalgia feeling. But not enough to make me give this book more than 3 stars.
The ending just read super unrealistic. For a lot of the characters honestly. I was more interested in Ren and Anisha honestly (and even that didn’t feel realistic).