What is your opinion?
Dramatic
"The drama, the twists, the backstabbing. Such a great story. The villains, both known and assumed, are not making this girl's life easy. An excellent example of a strong female hero."
Wooow!
"Awesome book! I can't stop reading. "
Wow
"very nise"
Lovely book
"This book is really interesting. I like it and it has me hooked. Couldn't stop reading. Awesome job!!!!!"
Free to good home
"I started with this one um what is part one called "
Need more
"Enjoyed the story. Want more please. Want to know what happens next to maia. Does she get her happy ending? Will they find out what happened to her two friends. "
Another great read in the Heartbeat serial
"I am enjoying what I am reading so far in this second entry of the Heartbeat series. Though the focus of this story is not on the happy couple of Alex Corwynn and now Megan Beal-Corwynn, author Maisy Menold still combines two very interesting themes in this work: the pop music scene and the star’s struggles out of the spotlight. Here, we meet singer Paul Lenci as he deals not only with family problems related directly and indirectly to his sexuality, but the fact that he now has a teenaged half-sister, Maia Lenci – a musical prodigy who’s just escaped foster care. Here, Paul is determined to overstep his domineering mother (who has been successfully crafted as a villainess) to give the girl a better life. It’s here that Menold succeeds in making the reader understand Paul’s struggle and root for him as he works to make things right for a girl who deserves to make it in the same line of work. Another element worth noting is Paul’s same-sex lover, Joey, who works as his support system in both his health and life issues. In this mix, Menold also has us dealing with toxic family members and a broken foster care system that is truer to life than any work of fiction can describe. Although this work is incomplete as of this review, what the author has done so far has you hoping that everything can work out in the hero’s favour. There are some of the same punctuation and grammar issues, including writing numbers in numerical form rather than word form (2 instead of “two”), but what I’ve noticed in the later chapters is the fact that two or three words come together to form one word. Examples include “Joeyprobably” in chapter 14, “thatCoke” in chapter 13, and a long occurrence where Joey is speaking in French in chapter 12. Although it sounds as if I’m fretting over nothing, this can be very distracting to the reader who’ll wonder if it should really be two or more words. However, with some skillful editing, this can be fixed. Despite this, the plot is very well-formulated; and as I’ve said, Paul is a very likeable character, easy to root for. Just like Ellen DeGeneres, you don’t even care about his sexuality, which makes you root for Paul and Joey and want to defend them to the nay-sayers. Menold should also get kudos for her ability to weave Italian and French languages in with English in the dialogue. Needless to say, as I continue to read, it will be interesting to see how Maia’s relationship with Paul will pan out, if Paul and Joey can survive Paul’s family, and if the newly-formed siblings can expose the DHS for putting children in degrading foster homes and nearly destroying Maia’s chances for fame and glory. (The last one, I’m actually looking forward to.) Yet another must-read from Maisy Menold."
