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All Note Long by Annabeth Albert

hemmel_mol's review against another edition

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2.0

Sometimes it is not clear if the narrator makes a story boring. In this case, I think they worsened each other. At 50% I still have no clear view of the two characters. They are interchangeable and often I did not know who's POV I was following. Enough happens that should keep me interested but I don't care because of the distance I feel toward the characters.

sara11_reads's review against another edition

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3.0

Hmm, I really enjoyed the first two books in this series but this one was just okay. I never felt a connection between Michelin and Lucky. For some reason they just never clicked as a couple to me.

heabooknerd's review against another edition

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4.0

ALL NOTE LONG was a very emotional read due to Michelin's public outing and the way his record label treats it and him. It was certainly a journey for Michelin to find acceptance.

I absolutely loved Lucky and thought he was a fantastic character. Lucky had a lot of pride, sometimes too much, but mostly he was just really passionate about what he loved. He was a great match to get Michelin to break out of his rut and start living for himself instead of for other people because he had no problem telling Michelin what he thought.

I also loved Michelin, even his more gruff, loner personality. I actually love when authors write gruff characters who struggle to express their emotions as they fall in love. I’m happy to say that though Michelin loosens up, I feel that Albert still retained his more quiet, introverted demeanor.

Content Warning: internalized homophobia; public outing

verloren918's review against another edition

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2.5

A bit better than the other two, even though the entire premise was absolutely ridiculous, and I never really got over that.

More than that, it features something that I've pointed out in some of Albert's work before- a disdain for queer people who may be out to a few select people, but remain closeted for their own reasons, even if they're very good ones. This drives me fucking nuts. We do not owe anyone our outness. Period. Michelin doesn't even do it on his own, he's outed against his will, and it's understandable that he struggles with it, even without considering the homophobic country music culture he's in. And yet, somehow it's always him that's framed as being wrong when Lucky is a pushy asshole about it. Lucky has his own issues to deal with, but he gets a free pass for some reason I don't understand. Michelin is an adorable dork and I totally get where he's coming from pretty much always, even when I don't agree with him. Lucky's just kind of a dick half the time because it's his way or the highway and who cares if he hurts other people- it's their own fault for not going his way, right? And yet it's inevitably Michelin who gives in, who does the public song and dance routine, literally. He deserves way more than Lucky tbh.

jodi_ice's review against another edition

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5.0

Cawpile: 5* 9.79

I’ve loved this series, just the right mix of fun, cute, angst and smut.

rebeccabadger's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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ashish_ras's review against another edition

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5.0

Intense and entertaining

Lucky and Michelin have a love-hate relationship. The conflict and the character journeys keep you hooked till the end. The back story and turmoil are well built.

lifeand100books's review against another edition

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3.0

I had issues with the generalization of how the south and country music fans would respond to a gay country star. While there are a lot of anti-gay people in both groups, the world is changing and starting to speak out against LGTBQ hate. I understood it was projected this way for Michelin's character development, but wish it wasn't such a sweeping generalization.

I loved Michelin and Lucky though, and the way they both figured out how the other worked. The way they worked off the other's energy is how partnerships are supposed to function. Seeing them figure that out and get their personal shit together was great.

ofbooksandromance's review against another edition

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2.0

2 stars

I have very mixed feelings about this series. Book one didn’t work for me, but I loved book 2 so I was very hopeful that I would enjoy this one too, but sadly, it also didn’t work for me.

Quick summary: Michelin is closeted country star and Lucky is a go go dancer trying to make it into the dancing world and Michelin goes to the club where Lucky dances and Michelin ends up being outed. Michelin and Lucky start to fake date because the label think it might help Michelin’s career.

Let me just start by saying that I don’t really enjoy angst, I like when my books are happy and I don’t have a high tolerance for angst, which really didn’t help me here because this entire book is very sad and angsty, so thats the first thing that didn’t work for me. I really appreciated Michelin’s character but he had a lot of internalized homophobia and it got way too heavy for me after a while. It was really well done though, just not for me.

Honestly, there are a couple of things that really bothered me with this book but the biggest one is Lucky. I just didn’t like him, at all. He wasn’t very nice to Michelin most of the time and it really bothered me, I just thought he could have done much better.

I really want to talk about one thing though. So the big conflict of the book was because Michelin didn’t want to be an out and proud country singer, he just wanted to stay in his corner and sign his music and Lucky wanted him to be proud of them or he couldn’t be with him. So they break up at 75% because of that. But Lucky also betrays Michelin in the worst way, which I thought was way worst than what Michelin did. Yet Michelin was the only one to apologize and do a public gesture where he signs a song he wrote for Lucky, but Lucky barely apologized for betraying him and I thought it wasn’t fair at all. Like sure Michelin had some issues and maybe wasn’t the most proud, but he wasn’t the one the worst one in the situation to me. To explain it, Michelin told Lucky that was in love with a guy before and that he broke his heart and then Lucky accepts to dance in that guy’s music video (that is only doing it to hurt Michelin) because it will help his career and he never cares about hurting Michelin’s feelings. And then Lucky backs out of it BUT he says it’s because it would make him look bad and all and not because of Michelin. To me he should have said no because it would hurt his man and he knew it. I really really hated that. It was a massive betrayal to me and I didn’t like how it was shown like it wasn’t a big thing, it was really important to me. And I don’t see how they can have a strong relationship after that.

I just want to mention one thing that I really liked and that was the fact that Michelin is demisexual. It was really nicely done and I loved how he discovered his sexuality and how he burned for Lucky, that was really nice.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange of my honest opinion

faustin2nd's review against another edition

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4.0

I saw some of the early reviews that made me think that I wasn't going to like this book. I was surprised at how much I really liked it (low expectations might have helped).

Michellin was an adorable, insecure, lovable character. In this book, the author unpeeled the celebrity layers off him to the man underneath and it was worth the wait. I also loved Lucky. He was ambitious with an amusing POV. It was always great to read about things from Lucky's perspective. I liked how this was not one of those "famous and rich man savior" stories. Lucky had his own ambitions and the famous and rich man had to compromise for him as well.

This story is heart-warming and sweet. Annabeth Albert did it again. I'm glad that this is how this series ended.