This is a love story filled with lyrical writing and hope. It’s told via dual POV’s of Riley and Max, and I loved the sprinkle of song lyrics throughout the book.

Read if you enjoy
Celebrity Romances
Second Chance Romances

Some things I didn’t like was that I felt like Riley and Max really didn’t have any chemistry, the book was lacking the tension and banter that I typically enjoy in my romances. Also, I feel despite it being told by dual POV’s, I don’t know anything about Max.

Riley is a pop singer, who had a shorter than expected marriage. She used her heartbreak to write hit songs on her latest album, all inspired by past love. When her ex-husband of 3 months tries to take credit for the biggest single, Riley asks her college boyfriend Max if he would go public as the real muse behind the song.

Max wanted to be a musician and loved to play music, so he puts in the condition that he could join her band and go on tour with her. He’s been working at his family’s business, a retirement home, but it’s not what he dreamed of doing with his life. As Riley and Max begin to get closer, they remembered what they liked about each other back in college and they wonder if they should rekindle their flame. Riley still has a lot of emotional baggage from her short marriage, but ultimately decides it’s worth exploring.

This is clearly inspired by the world’s biggest pop star, Taylor Swift and her mega hits about falling in and out of love. I’m a huge Swiftie! But I wanted to love this so much more than I did. Max has zero personality besides being a martyr for his family and their business. He finally shows a little when he asks Riley to join the band. Riley seems so young for being 30 years old. The second chance romance was pretty boring for a mega superstar. I did like how Riley was also helping her mom move on after a divorce together.

Thank you @berkleypub and @prhaudio for my gifted ALC. The Breakup Tour is out today.

Pop superstar, Riley Wynn is going on tour for her latest album and bringing along her first love as her pianist for the hit song inspired by their romance. As they tour across the states, they reflect on why their relationship ended so long ago and feel the tugs of an invisible string pulling them back together 😉.

It was such a fun read during my winter vacation. I was rooting for Riley and Max the entire time (while imagining that Travis Kelce was a pianist and not a football star.) It’s Taylor Swift fanfic and just plain fun! *Gifted by Berkley Publishing

THE BREAKUP TOUR is a second chance romance about a superstar singer who is on tour performing her breakup album, each song inspired by one of her exes. The hit song is about Max Harcourt, her college boyfriend who she’s never been able to forget.

This is a Taylor Swift inspired romance — I’m not a huge swiftie (getting there!) so I probably didn’t pick up on all of the little Easter eggs, but I did catch a few song references 😊🎶

I loved the dual POV and the second chance angst (my fav trope). The heartbreak and healing journey to love was beautifully written. THE BREAKUP TOUR is a slow-burn and the HEA was perfectly satisfying.

I am a huge Wibbroka fan and will read anything they write 🫶

🎤THE BREAKUP TOUR by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka🎤

📆PUB DATE: Today!
➡️Swipe or see below for synopsis
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Format: Audio/Ebook
Read if you like:
2️⃣Second chance romance
🎤Celebrity romance
💃🏼Taylor Swift

Thank you @berkleyromance for letting me be on the book tour for The Breakup Tour! This was a cute second chance/celebrity romance and is a book fully for the Swifties. I believe the main character, Riley, is loosely based off of Taylor Swift🪩 Swipe for the synopsis for The Breakup Tour.

My thoughts:

I liked the plot of this book and I love second chance romance Where this book sort of lost me was the chemistry, I didn’t feel much connection between the main characters and struggled to connect with their relationship. If you are a fan of celebrity or second chance romance, I would give The Breakup Tour a try! Thank you again @berkleyromance and @prhaudio for the advanced ebook/audio copies of this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing the ARC.

In the interest of full disclosure - I absolutely picked this book up because it looked (annd sounded) like a Taylor Swift story. However, upon reading it, it definitely feels like it borrows a little too much from Taylor and not enough from the authors' brains.

It was fine, but the characters have no chemistry with each other. It's a shame too, because The Roughest Draft was so good. And this is just not great. I with they had spent a bit more time on the characters and truly fleshing them out.

Overall, it's a Taylor Swift book, written generally not well with forgettable characters.

When Riley shows up at the retirement living center that Max is running he is faced with the regrets from his past. He chose his family over a life on the road with Riley and has always wondered what his life would’ve been like if he’d made the other choice. Her offer is the chance for him to see where that path would’ve led. I like a good second chance romance if the plot moves quickly but The Breakup Tour seemed to mire the story in both of their regrets, making it seem like it took forever before either of them could move past them. Because of that slow pace I felt like the tone of the story was moody and sad rather than playful and fun.

I loved how the author’s actually gave us the lyrics to the songs we were reading about. They all fell at the end of the book and I think I’d have liked to have read them sooner, but they were a wonderful addition and were filled with the words I’d imagined while reading about Riley singing them. I always enjoy song-filled stories and The Breakup Tour (the novel) could’ve had an album full of words filling these pages.

I enjoyed Riley and Max’s second chance story and although I’d wished their happy reunion was filled with more light hearted moments it felt real. I thought the ending was totally satisfying and I loved where the story led us.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review and it was honest!

Instead of praising Taylor Swift and loving her, as the authors state, this feels like the complete opposite. It is almost as if they are making fun of her? There are several lines that are from her songs, being used and turned, to make her look bad. For authors who dedicated this book to her fans and to HER, you would think that it would be more appropriate and appreciative of her, but no. I felt icky reading it. The writing was okay, not my favorite, but not bad! This review has nothing to do with the author’s themselves (besides not using someone’s TRAUMA for their book) but on the actual topics of the book.

This is also not a romance. I mean there is a sure attempt of it, but it feels more like a women’s fiction. The characters are bland and quite boring, especially the fmc.

Read if you like:
✨ Celebrity Romances
🥈 Second Chance Romances
💔 Songs about Heartbreak
🎸 Are a Swiftie
❤️ First Love

“I hope he knows I’ll always love him, in the way of loving my first favorite song.”

This book was the embodiment of a second chance romance about the one that got away because you were too young to know better and then living in heartbreak because your heart is still with that person that made the all the love songs about you and that person, so you can’t fully give your heart to anyone else.

Riley is our heartbreak queen that is portrayed in a way that the media has portrayed Taylor Swift through the years but in this story, but Riley feeds into the narrative the media has spun around her to the point of touring in her wedding dress. Her music is criticized to be only songs about heartbreak so she embodies this writing an album of 12 breakup songs from 12 relationships that becomes wildly successful while she leans into and believes the narrative spread about her that all she is good for is breakup songs because eventually she will be left by those she loves, but at least she will get a song out of it, right?

I enjoyed the way that Max and Riley came back into each other’s lives with the tour for a media/pr stunt to try to pull attention off her ex-husband who was using her fame for his gain post-divorce as that felt like a perfect way for them to reunite with Riley’s star shining and Max questioning if he took the right path 10 years ago when he said no to his dream in the music world- which then resulted in the end of his relationship with Riley.

All in all, as a Swiftie I enjoyed this story, even if it didn’t leave me sobbing like some of Taylor’s most powerful songs about heartbreak have.

Thank you so much to Berkley Romance for my ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Format: Audio/E-book

3.25🌟 - it was okay!

Thank you @prhaudio and @berkleyromance for the complimentary audio and digital ARC’s!

I have loved these authors last two books and saw they were writing a Taylor Swift romance and was THRILLED! The outcome of it though, left me feeling a little lackluster.

I really liked the concept of it, and love a second chance romance plot! It was such a fun backdrop of a breakup tour as the set for a romance.

Honestly if I didn’t know ahead of time it was a TS romance, I might not of even put it together that is what is was supposed to be? It almost was giving more Daisy Jones vibes because this FMC did not match Ms.Swift at all. I can’t definitely see what they were trying to do with this book, but I think it isn’t going to land well with all of the Swifties.

There were parts I liked overall, and I really do think these authors are talented! There was something that fell pretty flat for me and left me feeling not that invested in the romance overall.

Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the ARC.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 4/5 stars

A rising musician gets a second chance at love in this Swiftie romance. Riley went from struggling musician to superstar overnight due to her breakup album and memorable lead single. When her ex-husband claims the song is about him, Riley decides to track down the true inspiration for the song - her college ex, Max. When she asks him to go public as her muse, he makes a deal that he will in exchange for going on tour with her band. Will they find their overdue HEA?

This was a cute read and great for Swifties. I really loved Riley and her story. I always love a celebrity romance and the second chance aspect had plenty of angst. Overall, a solid romance.

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Breakup Tour is a DNF for me. It’s probably a not right now situation rather than a never read though. I just couldn’t get into it but I still have a morbid curiosity to finish it sometime.

Riley Wynn became a superstar overnight due to her pop hits about her exes. (Sound like a famous blonde you know??)

When her ex husband claims her newest mega hit is about him, Riley wants to set the record straight. The true subject of the song is her college boyfriend Max Harcourt. Riley calls Max and asks him to go on the road with her to get people talking and speculating about him and his relationship with Riley.

Max is content running his family’s retirement home and playing piano just for the residents there. When Riley shows up and tries to convince him to go out tour with her, it dredges up memories of why he didn’t go on the road with her ten years before and how he never really stopped loving her.

Let’s get this out of the way first. This story was fun and I loved all the side characters. Riley’s mom was a great addition to the cast and I loved the side plot of her own love story.

While this was a book about music, I found the writing overly lyrical. Riley and Max’s inner dialogue felt like wannabe song lyrics, which worked in small doses but not when it’s the go-to style choice. It made Max and Riley feel like caricatures to me instead of real people, and the story sometimes read more like fanfic than a fully fleshed out novel.

I won’t expound on this, but I’d expect two writer MCs to be able to communicate a bit better 🤣.

I really, really wish this hadn’t been marketed as inspired by Taylor Swift. I think the story was strong enough to stand on its own instead of linking it to arguably the most well-known name in current pop music. I, personally, prefer books inspired by other works of fiction or people who are not currently active in their careers. But that’s just my opinion!

Overall, this was a fun, fast read but not my favorite from writing duo Austin and Emily.

Thank you to @berkleyromance for the eARC. All thoughts are my own.

I really wanted to love this book. It felt like it had everything I like in a story. Second chance romance, plus a Taylor Swift inspired story! Sign me up! But this story did fall a little flat for me. I didn’t feel like the characters were complex enough for me to have any sort of attachment to them. Also, honestly I feel like not a lot happened until pretty far in. This plot felt very slow moving. So, unfortunately this one was not a hit for me, even though I had high hopes for it.

Riley Winn is a megastar. She broke out of her small town roots and is now the face of pop music and her name is synonymous with breakups. She's made a music career out of writing songs about her exes and is now starting a new tour, The Breakup Tour, promoting her new album. As it begins, she decides to reach out to her college boyfriend, Max, and invite him to join her to play piano on the single that's written about their relationship. Full of tension and great will they/won't they moments, this story is peppered with beautiful lyrical moments surrounding two musicians whose love for life and each other is founded on music. What happens when you have one partner accustomed to the superstar lifestyle and another who prefers playing his music in his family's retirement home? Will music be enough to bring them together again and keep them this time?

“Every song is a love song if you play it with the right person.”

The Breakup Tour appears inspired by but not a rewrite of the life of my favorite pop star. I found it sweet, heart breaking, and hopeful. I’m a big fan of a couple getting their second chance at love, and loved Max Harcourt and Riley Wynn’s story. The writing style is poetic and lyrical and I inhaled each page. The narrators - Brittany Pressley and Dan Bittner - did a fabulous job on this book and really brought Riley and Max to life.

I recommend this one to fans of second chances and celebrity/regular person couples who like their romances with a bit of spice.

I received advanced reading &listening copies, receipt of which did not impact my review.

Emily and Austin are such masters of the second chance romance trope! It’s not always my favorite trope but it is when these two are writing it.

Rylie and Max might have music in common but are definitely from two different worlds/have different ambitions. I loved Rylie’s mom too. She’s so sweet and delightful and there for Rylie when she needs a little mom perspective. Rylie is larger than life but has definitely put herself into a cycle of romantic self fulfilling prophecy and Max is very much an average guy in an average job that even his family thinks he settled on but he truly enjoys. It was interesting them being so incredibly different. I feel like everyone will find bits and pieces of at least one if not both of them relatable.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out Rylie is at least partially based on TSwift and her songs about exes but even if you’re not a swiftie (bc in definitely not) this is still a great read! It gives you angsty romance set amid a concert tour.

3.5

The Breakup Tour by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka is a Taylor Swift inspired contemporary romance. We follow a singer songwriter who is getting outshined by her ex who has claimed that the hit the summer that she wrote is about him. So she goes to her other ex, who is one among 13ish(?) (lol) of them and asks for his permission to reveal that the song is about him instead.

What happens instead is that he ends up on tour with her as her pianist and a second chance romance story begins. I did enjoy the prose and insights on their music career. I enjoyed the way this male character was written. However, I do feel like it ended up far too saturated with music and not enough of why they really deserved a second change on their romance and why they didn't work out in the first place. I did enjoy the way it ended and their introspection as characters at the end.

Thank you to Berkley Pub for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

"Melodies hold memories, Like nothing else on earth, they recall feelings, places, moments— the needle dropping into the groove of the soul's record player."

All the swifties need this second chance romance!

THINGS AND STUFF
-dual pov
-second chance
-love on tour
-forced proximity
-piano performance
-miss swift 🤝🏼 daisy jones
-media spotlight & stardom
-music lyrics & vulnerable breakup songs
-long live, delicate, midnight rain, all too well, the archer, wildest dreams
-so it’s going to be forever or it’s going to go down in flames (will they, won’t they)
-#IsThisAKissingBook: open door. “Kissing Max was like hearing a forgotten favorite song for the first time in years.”

thank you berkely for the free book!

LI loved the premise of this book and the serious Taylor Swift vibes it had. Riley Wynn is an up and coming pop star famous for her break up songs. Coming off a divorce, she pens an album with a song about each of her exes.

I really liked Max and Riley. They’re opposites in most ways but music is at the heart of them both. They connect through their music like it’s their own special language.

There were so many interesting aspects of the book: Riley dealing with her fame and public persona, the tour, Max trying to figure out what he wants, Riley’s ex. It was all so good!

Read For:
💟 Taylor Swift Vibes
💫 Second Chance Romance
🚌 Forced Proximity
⚖️ Dual POV
🔥 Slow Burn
🎼 Pop Tour

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Spice Level: 🌶️/ 5