REVIEW - Documentary by AJ Sand

TITLE: Documentary

AUTHOR: A.J. Sand

Dylan Carroll, an ambitious college student filmmaker still reeling from the death of her brother, may have just stumbled onto the opportunity of a lifetime.

Musician Kai White is in the middle of a public relations nightmare, and he may be keeping a secret that could turn things around. His manager/publicist wants to create a web series aimed at cleaning up his image. There’s also a promising offer at stake if Dylan can abide by the rule of staying strictly professional, and if she can figure out what Kai is hiding.

But Kai and Dylan already have an undeniable connection, and when they are together, they discover that rules are pretty easy to break. It's battling your own demons that's much, much harder.

As Dylan gets deeper into Kai's world, capturing his life on film, she'll learn that some secrets are so big, they are kept even at the expense of a career.

And that a person's story is often nothing like it appears from the outside.

If I could give this book more stars I would, without any hesitation. I read this book in less than 24 hours, and as much as I wanted to get to the end to see how the story panned out, I also found myself not wanting it to end.

I loved this book so much, I had a book hangover for DAYS! As soon as I finished it, I felt compelled to email the author right away and give her my opinion on the storyline.

Documentary had been on my to be read list for a while, however as soon as I read the blurb, I knew I was going to enjoy the story. The only thing I could not anticipate, was how much! Nothing and I repeat NOTHING prepared me for how much it totally blew me away! The emotions between Kai & Dylan were believable, so much so, I found myself feeling happy and sad along with them. I also felt anger and hatred towards Jeremy and Chase and seriously wanted to see them get their comeuppance big time.

I knew the emotions in the book were going to get to me the minute Kai was worried about what he may have done to Jeremy on the first page! I instantly felt happy when I realised he hadn't killed him (only to wish later on he had done significantly more damage).

I thought this was a well written book, with believable characters and a roller coaster of emotions. I felt as though, I as the reader, was in tune with the characters and could easily picture how they felt at any given time. I could feel the highs, lows, joy, sadness and anger.

The storyline is a hard one to carry off (I won't include any spoilers as I believe books should be experienced by the reader, not spoilt by the reviewer) but I felt AJ Sand did it justice.

It's not a light read by any stretch of the imagination. It's gritty and controversial but a worthy addition to anyone's 'To Be Read' list, if you have not already added it.

My Rating

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