Beyond the Stars by Stacy Wise

Pages: 336
Publish date: 8th February 2016
Publisher: Embraced: Entanlged Publishing
ASIN: B01AGF8X70
Purchase: Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU

Beyond the Stars:

I received an e-arc of Beyond the Stars by Stacy Wise from Embraced: Entangled Publishing via Netgalley. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.

Reading books from Embraced: Entangled Publishing is my guilty pleasure, most of the time they are very fluffy, sweet and cliquey, but sometimes I want that. I don’t want to read a book full of magic or supernatural creatures, I like to read a book that is fun and exciting. That is why I requested Beyond the Stars, and I wasn’t disappointed on that mark, however some parts did fall flat for me.

Beyond the Stars follows protagonist, Jessica as she becomes personal assistant to Hollywood’s new hottest start Jack McAlister. She was supposed to spending her summer in France, eating pastries and polishing her skills of speaking French. But it’s life doesn’t always go to plan.

Beyond the Stars starts off quite unusual, with a pig in the passenger seat. A real pig, like the animal. I was like, umm, am I reading the right book here? It was funny and the pig turned out to be the cutest thing ever. The plot of Beyond the Stars was very cliquey and I was hoping that something more would happen and it didn’t. I was looking for it towards the end of the book and it wasn’t there.

I enjoyed Jessica as a character. She liked to cook and that is always a bonus for me. She was this sweet, but sometimes sassy girl who has been hurt before by someone from Hollywood, so she has this guard up. Although I did like Jessica, she was sometimes quite annoying and I didn’t want that, I wanted to like her.

Jack, I didn’t find him as quite as annoying as Jessica found him. Which was quite frustrating. Jack tries to keep everything private and I totally understand that, but somehow that annoyed Jessica at times, but to me he wasn’t doing much wrong.

However, both with both characters, I didn’t feel like they had any character arc. They went from what they were at the start of Beyond the Stars to what they were at the end, but then it didn’t truly show what was in between.

The romance was, wired. It didn’t go anywhere for a while and then bam they were all lovey dovey and I thought I missed something because I hadn’t picked up too much connection previously and then they were suddenly together. So it was confusing and startled me for a second. There wasn’t any chemistry or connection.

The major tension of Beyond the Stars kind of fell flat for me. It was good and interesting, however, I didn’t feel that it was big enough. It played a part in the novel as it created heaps of tension between Jessica and Jack as well as someone else. But once it was all over, it was all over.

There was also scenes and events that happened that confused me, they were not needed and it made the book longer than necessary or it could have been focusing more on the connection between Jessica and Jack.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed Stacy Wise’s writing style. It was easy to read and understand. Wise is quite good with cuteness and creating an interesting story.

Overall, I liked the fluffiness and cuteness of Beyond the Stars, I also enjoyed both Jessica and Jack, however the plot and the romance fell flat for me. It had me wishing for more.

 

 

 

 

Have you read Beyond the Stars? What did you think? Are you going to read it?