Its the same girl falls for the "bad"guy or wrong guy and then she realizes the right guy was there all along, but she friend zoned the good guy. The book was very frustrating. especially the gay guy making such nasty jokes towards straight people. It was pretty much straight bashing. Just like gay bashing is bad, so is this. I would not recommend this to anyone. The author needs to clean this book up. Its very offensive and not in a good way.

Frustration is an ugly thing, especially when you feel it and think of it anytime you look at a specific book. My Lord, I felt like I was talking to one of my friends who practically mirrors Scarlett. And you know what? I don't speak to her much for the same reasons why I don't like this book that much.

You know the common trope where a girl finally gets a chance to go out with the good-looking guy and he is the opposite of what she imagined? Be prepared to experience it in this novel. Oh and she also has the trope bff who she should have been with all along...*Pretty In Pink reference coming* Ducky, I love you....

Anyways, I enjoyed the band and the lyrics thrown into the story. Unfortunately the tropes overshadowed everything else.

All the Wrong Chords started out has a promising novel but fell short. It just could not hold my attention.

DNF'ing at 32%

Right from the start, I struggled to get into the story, and it just got worse for me. I couldn't handle reading about Scarlett going for a douchebag and blaming her own (really nice) sister for stealing his attention even when her sister actively tried to dissuade him. I think it does teenagers a massive discredit to make Scarlett "boy crazy" to this extent.

Related to this, I did a Twitter poll asking how people would react if a guy they were interested in only showed interest in their uninterested sister, and 0% said they would blame their sister. Because that sounds a lot like blaming the victim.

There was a big focus on grief in the story, but I couldn't feel any of it. It sounds terrible, but I couldn't bring myself to care.

This is such a shame, as I was genuinely hoping to like the book. I actively requested it on Netgalley; this wasn't me agreeing to someone's review request. But alas, an interesting concept but not an execution I could enjoy.

I was approved for an ARC through netgalley. Unfortunately it was archived right after I was approved to read it so I was unable to read this story. This is disappointed me because this is a story that I was really looking forward to reading. Giving this one star just because I was made to in order to submit my feedback through netgalley.

I really enjoyed this book. Could not put it down. Emotional ups and downs. Would highly recommend.

I liked the premise of the book, but I wasn't that big on the characters especially Scarlett, she was nice, but she was kind of a flake to me.

The story just seemed quite predictable, I knew what was going to happen with Scarlett's relationships, but I will admit that I was surprised with a twist that was brought out near the end of the book.

As said above I wasn't the biggest fan of Scarlett, she seemed a really nice person but she seemed to be a bit self-absorbed, it was all about her.
There's a part when she invites a boy she likes to a cookout, and he starts to hit on her sister, even though the sister is not interested. Scarlett starts to blame Sara even though she has told her many times that she isn't interested in him.

I did love Zach, and the other members of the band Mike, and Kyle, they kind of saved this book as these characters were just well written and you'd find it hard not to love these guys and want to join their band.

Even though I wasn't the greatest fan of this book, I did like it but I wouldn't read this book again, I would still have a look at any other books this author has written as the writing flowed well.

The Characters
Scarlett is a relatable teen for anyone who has suffered loss, crushed on the bad boy or used music as an escape. Her relationship with a number of other characters impacts upon her grief in such an understated and real way.
Declan, being the resident player of the novel, is drawn up to be someone rather sketchy and shallow. Others bring layers to the lead singer of the band; beautiful but vain.
Scarlett’s grandfather is much more than a plot device; he’s the exploration of how different generations grieve. While you might not agree with how he goes about things, you will understand completely.
The Plot
The plot is tightly woven over a summer, not too long after the death of Scarlett’s brother. While she grieves, she generates a crush for the lead singer of the local band.
Along the way, she discovers things about herself that helps her revaluate her view of society and the world. There are a number of twists and reveals that keep the plot moving forward until it reaches a satisfying end.
The Writing
Scarlett is given a strong voice throughout the book. It’s clear and engaging, despite a number of repeated phases that can occasionally jolt the free-flowing narrative.

This is a book about moving on with your life after loosing someone you love. It was a beautiful story, full of life and death in a way. It was sad of course, because Scarlettt and her family are grieving her brother but it was also fun and vibrant and super sweet.

It's a short read and very enjoyable. Scarlett is a having hard time with her brother's death and we get to see her move on and get her life on track, getting back into music and working on her future.
She has a few bumps in the road, mainly her bad judgement but she soon sees what's right in front of her.

This is a slow burn love story. You think it will go in one direction but it goes in another then comes back to how it was meant to be. There were times you want Scarlett to wake up and see what is in front of her. What a J/A that lead singer is. I hated that Scarlett's reasoning for liking him was "because she deserves the hot guy". UM HELLO Zach is hot and funny and nice and and and. BUT NOOOOOOO She has to act her age and want the bad boy even though she knows he's B.A.D. she can't see that he is in fact BAD. You spend most of the book frustrated at her.

Her best friend is hit or miss. I sorta figured out his issue pretty quickly and then you really get a glimpse of how clueless Scarlett is.

I wanted more of her grandpa. (which took me way to long to come to grips with his age. I'm 40 and MY grandpa is his age yet Scarlett is only 18. My 17 yr olds grandpas are only in their 60's. So I couldn't quite wrap my head around that.

I disliked the main character, which made it difficult to get through this book. Her decision to focus on petty problems rather than cope with her grief bothered me.

Additionally, the author uses the phrase "the moment hangs in the air" waaaayyyyy too many times in this book.

I did enjoy how music played a healing role in the novel, but aside from that, this wasn't my cup of tea.

I had an incredibly difficult time getting into this one, and ended up DNFing it pretty quickly. I'm very sorry as I try to never DNF ARCs, as I am always so grateful to receive them(!), but this was just not my cup of tea. I think this book would be more suited to a preteen reader looking for a cute contemporary, but older teens or adults may find it a bit too juvenile in writing.

The concept was sweet and emotional, the story was simple yet predictable. Scarlet really annoyed me, Girl Why are you so blind? Why you couldn't get it early, everything was in front of you, Why you didn't have more self-respect before going after that Declan. Zach and his family was the sweetest part of the story. Relationships are the main key of this book, beautifully explained family bonding, friendships and of course Zach and Scarlet's part.
It was quick and easy read.

This is a book that teens will surely relate to easily. It is an engaging tapestry of a young girl’s summer of discovery and love. The book is well-paced and intense at times as Ms. Deriso weaves the threads of confusion and enlightenment.
The story is told by Scarlet who is spending the summer with her grandfather after the sudden death of her older brother. The intention is for her to keep him company and from driving. Both of them miss her brother deeply.
Scarlet meets Zach through her grandfather’s friend and, fabulously for Scarlet, he is in a local band. She has not touched her guitar since her brother died and she is hesitant to do so because of all the memories attached to playing and singing with him. She does finally pick it up and finds the joy still attached.
In the band is the dreamy player Declan who catches Scarlet’s eye immediately. The confusing relationship with Declan, the friendship with Zach, and the roller-coaster Scarlet is on join together to make a very enjoyable, do not put down story.

This book was ok. I wasn't totally crazy about the main character who I thought seemed kind of self-absorbed. She is mourning her brother's death and trying to heal which is sad. Her relationship with her grandfather is really great and her best friend is really funny. However, Scarlett is jealous/insecure and very antagonistic of her older sister (which is normal but still...), plus she is really shallow and pretty much oblivious to everything around her: the boy who likes here (Zach), the total player (Declan), her best friend's pain....all things she should have been aware of. She seems to grow as a person as the book progresses and the romance between Scarlett and Zach is cute, light-hearted and simple. Not a total loss. But not my favorite.

Thank you so much to Flux via netgalley for sending me an ARC copy of All the wrong Chords by Christine Hurley Deriso. All the wrong chords will be released on December 12, 2017.

The cover drew me in with its bright cover and guitar stings running down the middle. Being a musician i am drawn to anything dealing with music.

Scarletts life is pretty screwed up, her brother died of an overdose and he rparents shipped her off the her grandfathers house for the summer. Scarlett and her sister,Sara are staying with their 85-year-old grandfather for the summer, what could go wrong. He treats them like little kids and they treat him like an incapable old man. They are rarely on the same page, especially when it comes to driving. But thats to be expected considering Scarlett almost ran over a guy.

Zach, the guy Scarlett almost ran over with her car and aspiring guitarist, he has a band with his friends and they play local bars and restaurants. Zach has been nothing but nice to Scarlett even after the accident.
Declan, the gorgeous lead singer and Scarletts obsession.

Their family is very real and raw, which I really appreciate. If you watch the middle or speechless you know what kind of families they have. Real situations, real arguments and real drama. I didnt just feel like I was reading a story I felt invested in their life. It's refreshing to see writers make the characters not perfect/have faults.

There is the obvious love triangle but I enjoyed both boys dynamics and their personalities/interaction with Scarlett.

The story was predictable but it was a quick, enjoyable read. The writing flowed nicely and the book has some hard topics but the author wrote it well.

As soon as I heard that All the Wrong Chord's plot concerned pretty boy guitarist I was like, ‘hell yes, sign me up’. Damn, there is nothing that I love more than someone who can write me a catchy rock banger (until they actually write me one, and then it is cringey as hell). I probably should’ve expected going into this book, that it would be incredibly trope-y and incredibly YA, but I just think that I was blinded by the thought of hot musicians that the conventions of the genre hit me like a slap in the face.
One question: why does the girl always have to be a virgin? It has been ten years since I started with this genre and I still don’t have the foggiest idea why. Is it because authors (or maybe perhaps, publishers?) don’t believe that their audience would be able to root for a girl who has touched a penis? Because come on, honey, come on... This trope drives me up the wall, but it wasn’t the only issue I had with our dear main character. Oh, no.
Another is that she was ridiculously self-centred (even more than I am, which is saying something) - she never asks, or seems to care, about anyone’s life apart from her own and that of her love interest. Which means that I, as the reader, read however-many-pages and I still know nothing about her sister (aside from the main character's own resentments) or her best friend, or really anything about anyone who she wasn’t attracted to. The drummer and bassist of the band are essentially cardboard cutouts who really hold no other function than to complain about the lead singer, who is honestly the most ridiculous option in a love triangle that I have EVER seen. A personal highlight of the book is that, at one point he is given a flaw (and what a shit flaw it is) and tells a story about being ribbed by his mates for having dyslexia, and the main character’s best friend responds to a relay of the tale by saying “you’ll excuse me for not hosting a prayer vigil for what a gorgeous straight white guy had to endure in high school”. #Preach.
The only fleshed-out character in this book is her love interest; a soulful songwriter and college student who doesn’t have a single girl (apart from the main character) in his sights as a potential romantic/sexual partner and who instead, spends most of his time caring for his sick mother. This isn’t a real person, guys! This is a figment of 14-year-old Cass’ imagination because believe me, I know a lot of boys at university and being a Marty Stu is laughably far from their reality.
All in all, despite the book being a quick and easy read, it definitely could’ve benefitted from a longer timeline (everything happened in like three weeks, I mean, come on!) and another hundred or so pages to give the other characters a bit less of a paper quality. As well as some revisions on the fleshed-out characters because no, just no.

This could’ve been such a wonderful book about loss and finding ways to cope. But it wasn’t.
This was a book about a pretty self-absorbed eighteen-year-old girl who couldn’t figure out which band boy she had a crush on that day. “I like him. Now I don’t like him. Now I do like him but I also like him.” You get the picture.
Add that on top of the overly descriptive band practice and long song lyrics, there wasn’t much of a story here.

This story was interesting and the description was enticing. I struggled to finish in some parts, but overall it was a pretty decent story. It just wasn’t for me.

In this novel we follow Scarlett, an eighteen-year-old girl that decides to spend the summer before going to college with her grandfather, just a few months following her brother's death. Scarlett's bond to her brother Liam was very strong and she's still struggling to accept the loss. As she puts it herself: "I have a feeling the rest of our lives will be divided into Before and After." I loved the exploration of the familial bonds, which is often missing from contemporary literature, and the acknowledgment that family dynamics inevitably change because of the grief that engulfs them all. It also becomes evident that different people deal with the loss of a loved one in different ways, but they still need other to get through it and move on.

Another major part of this book, as the title suggests, is music, as Scarlett joins a local rock band. The idea of creating music for this novel was very intriguing and, in a way, made the read more interactive. Through the music the reader gets a glimpse of not only the connection between the main character and her brother, but of a potential love interest as well. As to how that goes, I'm only going to say this: we have a love triangle, insta-love ad slow burn romance all in one novel! I mean, it is all quite predictable, but I enjoyed reading about it nonetheless. Plus, we become acquainted with all the boys that comprise the band and their relationship to Scarlett. One word:Zach! He is such a sweetheart (ficitonal boyfriend goals!)

I was quite skeptical when it comes to the main character. She came off as insecure and antagonistic towards her sister and at certain times oblivious to other people’s situations, like her best friend Varun going through a rough time or the other members of the band and their difficulties , bordering on self-centered. She also seems to be questioning her words and actions the entire time, though I am not sure whether that is a character trait or if it has to do with her being a teenager. However, by the end of the story we see character growth, which reminds us that the point in not avoiding mistakes altogether but realizing you have made them and learn from them.

The writing style was at first compelling and quite easy to get into, however as the story progressed I found myself drifting away from the story. I think that the dialogue is the main reason for that, as it seemed somewhat forced and always touched on such heavy subjects, which did not seem natural or plausible when recreating discussions between young adults or acquaintances, therefore lacking the effortlessness that you might expect from a contemporary novel. Towards the last 60 pages or so, however, I was once again gripped by the events and the narration, in a way that made me feel like I was reading from a different perpective.

All in all, I enjoyed this book, although the middle part was a bit of a struggle to get through.