The Fame Factor 2

I finished the book. I wasn't impressed.

Somehow she gets out of an ironclad contract and can still perform with her old band?

She's had this chemistry with her replacement guitarist the whole book and all she got was a peck?

I don't know, the whole thing was meant to feel like Zoe came full circle, the grass wasn't always greener, blahblahblah ... but it didn't feel that way. It was still what Zoe wanted, when Zoe wanted ... I could see Polly's message but it didn't feel like Zoe had learnt anything. She was right back where she started at the end. So what was the real point? She crammed the happily ever after into the last 2 chapters, which makes me think she'd gone on so long making Zoe's life crappier and crappier that she made some crap up on the spot and hoped for the best in the last 5/6 pages.

I hate books that make me feel this unsatisfied.

The Fame Factor

This is a continuation of my main blog, but this is where I plan to write about books I'm reading, the things I take from them etc.

I'm reading one right now, the Fame Factor, by Polly Courtney. She was in a band that played violins and cello's to pop music, though I can't remember which band they were.

Her book's about this girl, Zoe Kidd, who leaves her job because she can't stand paperwork and leaves her band to sign with Universal because they don't want her band and she fights with her parents and sister and seems so headstrong when dealing with everyone in her life who matters. But then the record executives are like 'wear a pink sparkly catsuit with huge holes cut everywhere and pose provocatively' and she's all 'yes sir, yes sir, can I go on stage yet?'

I'm sure it's based on Polly's experience, but seriously, this main character's meant to be smarter than her sister, who's a defence attourney in a high court, but she can't see how much she's being used? Something seems off in that aspect.

I still have 7 *short* chapters to go ... but I can't warm to Zoe. Sorry.