One of the most interesting parts of this book is that it was entirely third person Remy's POV. I have yet to see another M/F romance book that uses exclusively the male main characters point of view, so kudos to Pearce for that. At the same time, I found myself wishing for Vivi's POV, as the plot line was based on Remy discovering that there is more to Vivi then meets the eye (imagine a beautiful, talented woman is multifaceted *cue the eyeroll*). The book then was not as compelling as I wished it would be. The third act drama was obvious that I was a bit bored by that point. At the same time, I found that the resolution was quicker than I typically like.

Remy Young is a session drummer. He's no stranger to relative fame, as his band, frontlined by his brother, had a hit single before being dropped by their label. Now, he works in the studios, playing drums in recording sessions and occasionally helping produce songs. 

When pop artist Vivi Sawn (America's sweetheart, glaringly inspired by Taylor Swift) needs an "emergency" drummer for the American leg of her tour, he doesn't think twice. They need the money - his brother has been creatively blocked since coming back from rehab and Remy is terrified he will start using again. So, he'll go, play, and stay away from any drama that surrounds the "break-up songs princess". When a bus mix-up and a paparazzi chase throws them together alone for hours, he's surprised to find out that she's nothing like her public persona. She ends up showing him a "baby song" and asks him to help her polish it. He can't pass it up for professional reasons (yeah, right...) And soon the song is not a break-up song and every variation of it is a subtle love letter. But Vivi's fame will soon put their budding love story to the test...

Although the blurb and the cover all point to a a lighthearted rom com, this is not the case. This book is a delicate love letter to making music. Also a book about how fame can turn your life into a gilded cage. The way the romance blooms between these two reminds me of Jane Austen: furtive glances, a slight touch of the hand, an intoxicating smell of vanilla. It's definitely  closed door and it has a lingering YA feeling all over, but it's kinda lovely. 

Having said that, there are a few things that I wish were different:

 The third act conflict: it was so obvious that you were just expecting WHEN that was going to happen, and when it happened I really didn't understand how passive and forgiving to "the culprit" Remy  was!

Vivi's "grand gesture": I needed more. Six months and just that???

This is me, a very personal preference: I needed an extra chapter in the end or a more developed "epilogue". The news tidbits at the end were cute but I needed more development. 

It's also interesting that this is told in 3rd person POV, but entirely through Remy's. 

All in all a lovely story. 

Possible triggers: MMC ran away from home to escape an extremely religious household. 

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.  Thank you Sourcebooks Casablanca and NetGalley for the advanced copy.

It wasn’t lighthearted as I was expecting but still enjoyed it. I love reading books with pop-star on it because it reminds me of daisy jones and the six. I also learned that this book was based on Taylor Swift and loved it even more!! I’m a sucker for slow burn friends-to-lovers trope so it wasn’t shocking that this book made me interested.

So much changes for Remy when Vivi hires him to play drums for her band. In a twist from the usual in this genre, Remy tell the story of his difficult childhood, his brother Val's struggles, and his own evolution into a songwriter in love with the pop star. Vivi isn't what he expected when he signed on, something he discovers pretty quickly. Their relationship grows as they write song after love song together. Fame though, has its costs, notably the intrusion of publicity, social media, and well, oh so much. Can Remy and Vivi have a life together off the road? I liked this as much for the insight into touring as for the love story. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC. A good read.

3.25 stars ⭐️ Thank you NetGalley for this ebook in exchange for an honest review!

This was a nice story! It was an easy read and had a nice writing style. I really liked Remy and Vivi’s story and how we saw them start out professionally to spending more time together to lovers.
I have to say, the beginning of the story felt a little slow to me and the pacing felt off in other parts of the story. I also am not the biggest fan of the cheating trope so I was a little disinterested when I read about Vivi cheating.
The whole premise was nice though! I enjoyed reading about them going on tour and going to different countries. It definitely helped me realize that celebrities are just people.
Overall a nice read!

When Remy Young gets the chance to tour with America's Sweetheart, superstar Vivi Swan, he jumps at the opportunity. And after a bus mixup causes them to spend a few hours together, all of his preconceived notions about her are challenged. Maybe she is a pop princess who writes breakup songs about everyone she dates. But maybe he doesn't care and wants to get to know her better. This story is sweet and deals with surprisingly deep topics. Remy deals with his own family trauma throughout the story, as part of the story explains his escape from his ultra-religious family and his brother's struggle with substance abuse. But it is also light and fluffy at times. While I enjoyed the book, I struggled with a few things. Vivi Swan is not so loosely based on Taylor Swift (she writes breakup songs, has a song about interrupting a wedding, and wears a signature red lipstick), which is fun because I love Taylor Swift, but it sometimes relies a little too much on the real Taylor Swift without creating character development for the fictional Vivi Swan. Also, there are some pacing issues in the book, backstories that don't seem to tie into the story are given a significant focus, and the time Remy spends bonding with the band is highlighted, but the story of how Vivi and Remy's relationship grows is quickly glossed over and rushed through. While all of the writing is great, it just seems like the focus is often misplaced from the plot. Even though I did struggle with the pacing, I did enjoy the book. It is always fun to see the superstar fall for a regular guy, and the setting of a world tour made it even more exciting! Overall, it was a really fun read!

I’ve received this e-book via NetGalley in exchange for a honest review. I would like to acknowledge everyone involved in allowing me early access. I’m extremely grateful! All opinions are my own.

5 very easy to give stars ⭐️

Loved it from beginning to end!!

Remy and Vivi are both in the music industry, although in complete different positions in life. I really liked the setting of the book - I felt it was very well characterized even to the small details, which we get access to through Vivi’s personality.

The female main character, Vivi, is definitely very Taylor Swift inspired. I don’t usually follow Taylor’s career, but I didn’t had a problem with the inspiration. I feel it might be a good bonus for the fans out there. As for the male main character, Remy, I liked the strong relationship he has with his brother, in a “we against the world” kind of way. I like seeing descriptions of strong siblings’ relationships in fiction and this one was gold. Additionally, although the book is told in the 3rd person, we have a major focus of the male character’s side of the story, which I highly appreciated, as contemporary romance tends to focus on females. This one felt refreshing in this sense.

I was very surprised to appreciate this much a slow burn. Don’t get me wrong, the fact is I don’t usually go to slow burn as I like faster paced stories, but the slow burn here works wonders, as the characters are getting to know one another. I really liked the pacing!! The chapters are short, and manage to keep the reader interested throughout the book. We get small glimpses of the brother’s past in some chapters, which I enjoyed as I tend to like this use of different times for narration.

Which kept me hooked until the end was, in fact, the many layers of the story and the fact that none of these characters is perfect. There were times I wanted to shake them up in order to make them see the truth 😂 but in reality I felt it to be realistic, as we, as imperfect humans, will also make mistakes in life.

Finally, I loved the point where the title just clicked and made sense! Definitely love these moments 😍

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<i>Six ways to write a love letter</i> is about the drummer Remy Young who gets to tour six weeks with the famous singer Vivi Swan, because her drummer fell while skateboarding. She’s America’s Sweetheart and Remy comes from a local band where he plays with his brother and more.

I found the story to be a bit slow, and therefore I did not enjoy reading it as much as I hoped I would. While I did hope the story would catch up, and make me want to read more, I noticed that I skipped a lot of pages, and just read a lot of the dialogue instead. It was around 39% of the book where I wanted to give up, but decided to skim the rest.

But! Even though this book wasn’t the one for me, don’t let my 2-star rating distract you from picking up this book. If you love musician romances or romances in general I think this book would suit you.

I wanted the story to be different - I wanted a lighthearted Taylor Swift story - but what the author delivered was actually something far more nuanced and considered. And significantly darker too. There are tiggers in this story -and gratuitous use of flashbacks for exposition purposes, but there were also some lovely, raw moments in the book that shone. The characters weren’t romcom material - they are troubled and messed up, but also relatable I think because we get the story from the male characters POV. I really liked this story.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the early e-copy of this book.

If you are going into this book expecting a nice, fluffy romantic comedy based on the cover and the blurb, you will be sadly mistaken. There is so much more depth in this book, which I would totally appreciate if that was what I was expecting. I would think more women's fiction with romance than romantic comedy. The more I sat on this review to right though, the more I realized that even though I went in thinking rom com, I still really enjoyed this one.

Something I haven't seen in a while is the setting of being on tour! So the book starts with a guy who is offered to play drums for a big music name, Vivi Swan, Even though he is reluctant to go due to his commitment to his brother, he does decide to go. You see, he ran away from a religiously strict family with his brother and so they feel a very strong commitment to each other. What he doesn't know is that his life is about to be flipped upside down.

I really did enjoy this book. From learning that the media skews what you expect from someone famous to working on who you are outside of what you are to someone else, it touches on a lot of great topics.

Aside from reading, music has always been one of my primary hobbies. I grew up playing various instruments in different bands and ensembles all through college. I avidly listen to music. I watch music critics who review music and dive into songwriting. I dabble in most areas except actually writing music or lyrics. All that to say this book was primed to either be a perfect read for me or a total miss, there was not going to be an in between. And I am delighted to say I adored this book.

All the music talk aside, that actually had nothing to do with why I picked this book up. This was an entirely blind pick up based purely on the author. Jackson Pearce used to write YA fantasy. And I used to be a huge fan of that YA fantasy when I was younger. Several of her books had spots on my favorite list for a while there. So when I was browsing Netgalley and stumbled up on this one I requested it without even reading the blurb. It has been a while since I've read a book by Jackson Pearce because my reading tastes started aging up and she did a foray in writing a middle grade series but with a jump to adult contemporary romance I was in. And I hope she writes more!

Now onto the actual book. In this book we're following Remy, a drummer who gets a last minute chance to fill in as the drummer on the North American leg of the tour of America's pop princess, Vivi. Vivi is very clearly inspired by Taylor Swift, and I was perfectly down for that, but I could see some people not jiving with that as a personal preference. Remy and Vivi end up stuck on the same tour bus together for a few hours one night earlier in the tour and they end up working on writing a song together and thus spending time together over the course of this tour leg.

And that's where I just fell in love with their story. I loved watching them connect through writing this song together. The way the words and meaning of it were tweaked and changed in response too things that were happening around them. And the way these two characters connected with each other when they had these writing session where it was just the two of them without the rest of the touring crew around. The way you could feel Vivi's public persona mask slipping off around Remy just felt so authentic.

This book wasn't without a few flaws for me, primarily surrounding the conflict which I had some mixed feelings about. What the conflict was about was what I had expected and what kind of just made the most sense in the context of the book so I was fine with that. And I liked that the inciting incident was a third party's actions instead of one of our main character's because it easily could have been an action on the part of one of the MCs which I would have been much more annoyed with because what happened was shitty. And I did think the third character got off a little too easy in the end. A little too forgive and forget for me. It was also a little frustrating because the situation was so preventable if just a little more common sense had been employed in this one specific scene from the beginning of the book.

But what pushed this book into being a 5 star despite some qualms was the two grand gestures we got from the MCs at the end of the book. It's been about a week between reading the book and when I had time to actually sit down and write this review and the whole ending of this book has lived in my mind rent free since then. I just cannot stop thinking about them because I loved them so much. I loved that both characters made a gesture as it felt very fitting given the context. And while VIvi's gesture was already melting my heart, Remy's is just playing on repeat in my head it was so good!!

This book has also made me realize that maybe I need to pick up more rock star/pop star/musician books. Because this is the second I've read and I've really enjoyed both

It's not often that I DNF right away. But I did with this one because it started with a character waking up ... It's a tactic that immediately pulls me out of the story. I kept trying to read a few pages but I couldn't get over the first line

I am obsessed with this book!!! Remy Young and his brother have a band. Remy gets asked to fill in and play drums for Vivi Swan (based on Taylor Swift) while she’s on your. As an avid Taylor fan, this book was amazing. I loved Vivi and Remy’s banter and secret escapes. It made me rethink how we as a society treat celebrities.

I went into this book with high expectations - unfortunately, they were not met. I really like the idea of a Taylor Swift-esque pop princess falling for the has-been that is touring with her, and them collaborating professionally & personally. This book has that, and I thought it was really interesting to have it from the man’s perspective. I found Remy to be a much more interesting character than Vivi - growing up in a strict religious community & then escaping with his brother & having their own band. However, I thought the story moved so slowly that any of the fun was sucked out of the story & it started to feel like a chore to read. This is not a light-hearted, fluffy romance - there are serious issues like addiction & the price of fame, especially for the super famous, and at times I felt that there was too much going on outside of Remy & Vivi’s relationship. By the time we get to the end, it feels rushed - there’s grand gestures, but no real discussion of their issues.

The premise of this book was exactly what I wanted in a book. The author absolutely delivered in giving readers a heartbreaking and messy romance. It’s got all the stage scenes and behind the scenes you could want in a celebrity/musician romance. Here’s why I’m knocking the rating down: the author was trying too hard to make this book something it wasn’t. It’s clear that this book was never going to be a romcom, but it was going to be a celebrity romance. I didn’t like how the author tried to bring a deeper level in by Donny flashbacks and bringing in a religious aspect. It just didn’t work for me. I think the book would’ve still had enough depth to not be fluff without those scenes. All in all, really enjoyed this book.

I had high hopes for this one but it just wasn't working for me. I didn't even make it too far in the story because the characters were awful.

𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀: boss x employee (in music industry), friends to lovers, slow burn

Thank you NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Casablanca and Jackson Perce for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I like the book, it started a little slow for me but after a few chapters in, I really could enjoy it.

The story is told from Remy's POV which it was a big surprise for me, because I always read books from female's POV. From his POV we learn about his brother's and his PAST which is a little sad. I wish I could see their interaction with their little sister.

Remy and Vivi become friends very quickly, especially after spending some time stuck in a bus on a tour. Immediately they become co-writers and work on a song together. All the meetings between them lead to the appearance of feelings and problems, but which in the end are resolved.

I enjoyed this book more than I thought I was going to!
It started a little slow for me. I wasn't very patient with it so I stared putting it away. Then something clicked and I couldn’t stop reading it.
This story was beautifully written, and I enjoyed it so much. It's a light-hearted romance, and a beautiful love story. It was uplifting to read, it was filled with drama, surprises and some darker parts than I expected that kept me so interested. I thought that this was going to be a cliché romance.
It was probably the first time that I read a whole romance from a guys POV. I liked that we got the brotherly connection and the insight into their childhood leading to struggles with addiction.

This was such a fun easy read perfect for fans of Taylor Swift with the love interest being a tall blonde popstar with a trove of breakup songs and her signature red lipstick. six ways to write a love letter is written from Remy a drummer/ want-to-be producers point of view and follow along his and Vivi's journey of writing a song together and in the process falling in love. I loved how fast paced the story was as well as learning about Remy and his brother Val's past through flashback and little snippets at the end of some of the chapters. cant wait to see what Jackson Pearce writes next!

OMG, this book is an ode to pop culture and I totally loved it! While reading Six Ways To Write A Love Letter, I got the feeling of being on tour with a popstar! I almost forgot I was reading a book and I swear it felt to me like I attended every single gig described in the book! I loved every moment of it! I mean, is there anything better than live music?! Perhaps, reading a book is the only thing that can beat the feeling of assisting a concert. So, this is why this book is practically perfect!

Another reason why I adored this book is that I am a sucker for stories told through feelings. I mean, yes, Six Ways To Write A Love Letter is a pretty eventful and entertaining story about live shows, pop icons and forbidden love, but what really stood out to me is the way I could FEEL every single scene. To me, the author did an amazing job in the "feelings department". There's a passage in the book in which the main male protagonist is working on a song as a producer and the thing that makes him happy about his job is being able to create the feeling the song generates. Well, I think the author of this book did the same and the feelings generated by this book are definitely gonna linger with me for a while.

Well, I'm telling you, if you're into pop music and books (and, I mean, who isn't?), look no further: Six Ways To Write A Love Letter is the right book for you!

Thank you NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Casablanca for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.