Love Song Book Review

Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! Today, I am back with another book review. As someone who loved the Off-Campus series, I had such high expectations for Love Song; however, this book did not meet my expectations at all, so let’s get into it!

Love Song follows Wyatt Graham and Blake Logan as they both are spending the summer at their family’s lake house. Blake is trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life. After having already switched majors, she’s just not sure she knows what she wants. Wyatt is facing serious writer’s block and wants a summer where he can focus on his music. Just the quiet lake house where he can spend hours writing.

Both their plans are fraught when they learn the other is staying for the entire summer. Blake has had a crush on Wyatt forever, but he’s a bad body rockstar who will break her heart. Wyatt hides his emotions well and knows he can’t start anything with Blake. It would ruin their friendship. But when they have to spend the whole summer alone together, temptation gets harder and harder to resist.

I want to preface by saying I loved the Off-Campus series. I recommend it to anyone especially with the TV show out in May. I also don’t want to be overly negative, but I’m going to be honest. This book fell so flat for me I almost DNF’d it. I have three major gripes with it.

One, the characters were so immature, the dialogue was cringey, and there was no chemistry. I refuse to believe that Garrett Graham (yes, the Garrett Graham from The Deal) would raise his son like this. Wyatt was just a total asshole, fuck boy. He was just horny 99.99% of the time. Then there’s Blake…she was such a flat character. There was no emotional depth to either character or any maturity.

It’s not just the main characters either. Beau sleeping with his best friend’s girlfriend?? Dean’s son being a cheater?? No. No. And then everyone telling AJ to get over it. Are you serious? No, he shouldn’t just get over it. His best friend went behind his back and slept with his girlfriend. I feel like AJ is justified in never wanting to speak to Beau again.

Also, I do not like how pregnancy loss was handled in this book. Mostly the fact that no one gave a damn about Wyatt or even cared to acknowledge that he lost the baby too.

Then in the end, neither of them grew up. They both just “got over” what they were going through, and Blake groveled to get Wyatt back…. like seriously?? What the hell kind of writing was that. It was so rushed at the end.

Two, this book was 200+ pages too long. There was no way this book needed to be 540 pages!! So much of this book was unnecessary and drawn out for no reason. This honestly felt like Off-Campus fan-fiction with the way the old characters were incorporated.

Third, there was way too much spice, and I’m not usually one to complain about the number of spicy scenes but good lord, I found myself skimming through it. This was spice just for the sake of having spice. Honestly, too much that the plot got lost. Which not that it was really there to begin with.

I just really did not like how these characters were portrayed. I think it makes the OG Off-Campus characters look bad, and honestly, I think it’s kind of weird to write about the next gen like this.

Overall, I gave this 2/5 stars, and I would not recommend.

Alright folks, that is all I have for this week! Come back next week for another blog post. As always, thank you for reading :)