Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey ~ Book Review

My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪
Genre: Romance

Beat and Melody are the children of two former rockstars who haven’t performed together in decades. When they are offered a million dollars to reunite their mothers on live tv, they each decide to take the plunge, agreeing to be live-streamed for the weeks leading up to the Christmas Eve reunion. Beat and Melody have only met once before, but their chemistry is immediate as soon as their livestream extravaganza begins.

Melody was your classic quirky, clumsy rom-com character who comes out of her shell as the livestream audience grows and falls in love with her. She was funny and entertaining and for the most part felt like a real person. Beat on the other hand was very one-dimensional and so much of his internal monologue was focused on his sexual preferences that I felt like I didn’t know him at all.

The premise of this book felt a little like a TikTok livestream meets Black Mirror episode, but I could totally see something like this happening and the public loving it. It was also interesting how the two of them had to navigate their lives with very little private time.

I would love to have known more about their mom’s banned, the Steel Birds. We meet the two mothers, Trina and Octavia, late in the book and they felt thrown in without completely being formed. The whole ending of the story in general was extremely rushed and unrealistic.

The romance was definitely there in this book and it did what it was trying to in terms of feeling very Hallmark movie-esque. Cute, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend it.

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