Youtube sensation and song writer Poppy Douglas has been stuck in her home town finishing off the school year while her lead singer, rock star boyfriend has been touring the country. When her royalties cheque comes through from her song The Kiss Off, she decides to take herself and her two best friends to a music festival at the beach to celebrate....and see Ty. Mads is all over it, but when Van can't make it she decides to take Nikki with her. The girl who stole her ex boyfriend and had a song written about her. Poppy and Nikki have sorted everything out and are friends again....but Mads isn't so forgiving. With the two not getting on that's one glitch in her perfect weekend.
When her mum suggests her dorky cousin chaperones them, the only way she'll be allowed to go, she grudgingly agrees. But Hamish isn't so dorky anymore and soon Mads and Nikki have something else to argue over. As the weekend descends in to disaster with sunburn and scandal involving Gordo, Ty's bands support band, it couldn't get any worse...or could it? Ty's creepy stalker girl is determined to break the two up, and Ty isn't so happy about Poppy writing a song for another band. Can the weekend be salvaged? Is this the end for Poppy and Ty?
The book can be read as a standalone, but for those who've read the first book it continues smoothly and perfectly. Over It is action packed, there's stalkers, paps, a bar brawl (sort of), a catfight on stage, breakups and plenty of pap induced Drama. I found the book very hard to put down and read it in a couple of hours.
This is one of those books that you sit and read, and you find yourself slapping your hand over your mouth and gasping in shock thinking "NO! That did not just happen!" and you're embarassed for the character, as well as being totally hilarious and having you laughing out loud!
Poppy is kinda stupid sometimes, she does stupid things, and she makes mistakes and she can be kind of selfish, but rather than make me dislike her, it made me like her more. It made her more real, no human is perfect, but a lot of protaganists in teen books are, and that's just not real to me.
My one issue is the ending. It was seriously seriously crappy. Not cool. Especially as we have to wait til 2015 for the next book. I was expecting the book to be a cute little romance with a happy ending, but there is no happy ending, there's a huge cliffhanger, and I was really kind of disappointed with the ending. I am assuming that in the overall arc of the series, this is Poppy's low point, where the sad music plays, and she will eventually rise from the ashes. But still. It made me want to throw the book at a wall and then jump on it. But it was on my kindle and that reaction was just not viable!
Overall the book was a fast paced, humorous, romp, with plenty of cute bits, and plenty of totally oh my god cringe moments that let's be honest....totally do happen. I may have experienced a certain sunburn incident with a skull laced back top at a festival last year. I totally felt her pain. Trust me Poppy...no tan lines can be as bad as mine where!
A definite must read to while away the hours in a grey and gloomy day.