Review: Good Girl

Good Girl by Piper Lawson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Haley Telfer needs an internship stat or she will lose her place on her college course. She has the usual tragic backstory, single mom killed in a car crash, lost her college scholarships as a result (isn't there a family tragedy clause in those things?), never knew her father yadda, yadda. Then, after she thinks she has bombed a job interview with Wicked Records, she gets told she's got the job. Then, as luck would have it, on her first day, actually on her way to her induction, she meets her idol, the legend that is Jax Jamieson, unfortunately her attempts to help the guy in a recording studio with some IT issues lead to her accidently assaulting her idol. Nevertheless somehow she gets promoted to back up to the sound engineer on Jax's tour, without his consent.

This was an enjoyable, yet predictable YA/NA nerd meets rock star romance. Jax hates being a rock star and has lost his mojo, he's counting down the days until he can hang up his guitar and spend time with his family. Haley is a little beam of Pollyanna sunshine that just can't help making friends with everyone and fixing things, she's also a talented musician and skilled at all things technical. Heck she's even written an app to 'fix' music to make it more appealing to the listener.

I have given up on 99% of YA/NA novels because of the angst and the cliches but this had sufficient plots woven into the (relatively short) novel to keep me interested. Warning, this is only part one (of three) so there is no resolution of the Jax/Haley dynamic.

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