I picked this up after watching the movie as I was interested to see how the two would compare and I found I felt about them both similar -I liked parts but found both lacking in two parts.

Solene brings her 12-year-old daughter to a meet and greet with her favourite boy band August Moon (cough One Direction), and strangely, 39-year-old Solene finds herself flirting with 20-year-old boy band member Hayes Campbell (cough Harry Styles). What she thinks might just be a physical intimacy soon becomes more as they fall in love but in doing so Solene ends up in the public eye far more than she thought and it begins affecting her work life and the relationship with her daughter.

I found this book a mixed bag. I couldn't quite get a grasp on Solene and Hayes - I found Solene beautiful and a bit too perfect truth be told, and I also disliked how the author shoved Solene's artistic world and her being 'French' in the reader's faces every couple of pages (if anyone knows what a 'French mouth' is supposed to look like, let me know). I thought Solene's job as a gallery owner was very interesting but there were some parts where the book focused so much on art, I didn;t care (though in saying this, I'm not into art so I'm not the target audience either). And then there were times that Hayes just acted and said things that were too perfect, he was just unrealistic and they never really had the conversation that hovered between them as to why exactly he was always attracted to older women.

I found the age gap in this book a bit too icky. I'm glad in the book they changed it to 24 and 39, which was still a bit gross for me but I couldn't believe it that book Hayes was only 20 - he's practically still a teenager. And I don't care what Solene said about him having the body of a man, his brain wasn't fully developed yet, he hadn't even lived life outside of boy bandom yet. It was gross. And she was just that little too comfortable in with all the splendour and money his fame brought even if she was very stupidly naive about what dating him actually meant when it came to his fans.

Similar to the movie as well, I found both meet-cute scenes extremely underwhelming and didn't feel the chemistry between the characters. This did change in the movie for me by the first kiss and it took maybe a bit longer in the book. The romance/sex scenes were fairly steaming at parts though again I found some of them uncomfortable when I reminded myself he was 20 years old. The book did feel very repetitive at times though as it went travel, art show, sex, Solene feeling guilty, repeat a lot and after a while it all became a bit tedious.

I was quite shocked by the ending, it was just so abrupt and I felt it was quite a let down considering everything we had gone through with Solene and Hayes. I wasn't expecting a happy ever after with a bow on top but I expected more than what we got. Thank god they changed the movie ending as that would have been an hour and a half I wanted back in my life!