Open Road Summer, Emery Lord

Open Road Summer by Emery Lord

Imagine your best friend is America´s new sweetheart and suddenly, you are able to tour the country following her along a country tour, where Matt Finch, the new cute opening act of the tour, will be joining them for all sorts of adventures.
Reagan joins Dee´s summer tour with a broken heart, but when she arrives at her best friend´s tour, she realizes that her heartbreak may not be as awful as Dee´s. Dee is soon surrounded by rumors and articles full of her ex-boyfriend, so her team decides to bring a new distraction for the media, a new opening act. That´s how Matt Finch, a total sweetheart that every girl has had a crush on in middle school, gets to join the tour. When Reagan meets Dee´s fake boyfriend, she knows that she won´t be falling for him, well, that´s until she gets to know him. Aside from all cute looks, what really captivates Reagan is his music. So, Reagan falls in love with his passion and his way of communicating with the world. On the other hand, Dee is trying to live her life as a teenager, even when she has certain rules to follow because she´s under the spotlight, so having her best friend with her will mend her heart and make everything better. This will be a summer they will NEVER forget!
I liked the plot a lot, although it seemed a little cliché, it was nice to read about the music world because I am a person that LOVES music! My favorite part of the whole writing of the novel was the fact that the author added Matt´s lyrics because it made it more real and it gave us an idea of the reason behind Reagan liking his music so much since having that piece of information kind of creates a better logic in your mind instead of just having a piece of information thrown at you. 
Surprisingly, my favorite character in the book was Dee because she was a teenager that was eager to live life and that made her really special. Even though the story is focused on Reagan, especially because it is narrated from her point of view, we see a lot of Dee by her actions. It broke my heart to read about her heartbreak because it sounded so devastating, especially when she was living a very hard life surrounded by millions of people. Also, the whole articles about her ex-boyfriend were the key part that made me feel so bad for her because she had to deal with the horrible breakup and she also had to take care of her image and her reputation, it put her in a situation where she still had to care about her ex when the relationship was over. 
On the other hand, Reagan was definitely not a favorite character of mine, she annoyed me a lot because she is one of those characters that knows what she wants, yet when she can have it, she just backs away and ends up hurting everyone. I could understand why she might have felt betrayed throughout the novel, but the reason why she was feeling that way was that she was so close-minded when someone hurt her, she just ran away without understanding the situation she was in. I do understand that when we are about to get hurt, humans tend to back up a little bit to protect ourselves from the heartbreak, but Reagan kind of took it to another level. She just didn´t want to hear about anything that had to do with it and that may have hurt her more than she expected. 
Matt was a character that I liked but didn´t get obsessed with. He was very easy to let go as time passed by, he isn´t a character that stayed with me for a long amount of time like I did with other characters, yet I do admit that at the time of reading it, I really liked him and his personality. He is very funny and he´s passionate about his work and that seemed very beautiful to me. 
For me, the story seemed more about friendship rather than romance because the whole meaning behind Reagan being on tour with Dee was to celebrate their friendship and to me, that seemed beautiful because there are things that you can ONLY do with your close friend, and Dee having her best friend with her made it easier to start living life the way she was eager to do so.
I believe that it is a perfect book to enjoy if you love music and if you want to read about a friendship that could melt your heart. 

4 out of 5 stars

Love, Sua