Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Moon & Back by Ginger Scott

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Blurb:

Johnny Bishop crashed into my life like a hurricane. Not once, but twice.

The first time, we were teenagers. He was the star quarterback destined to save our small town’s high school team. I was the music nerd desperate to shine, but always falling short. 

Until him.

Johnny was good at football, but he was great at music.  And when I realized we shared a love of performing, I fell for his charm. I drank in his words and was hypnotized by the way he sang. I was never fully in the spotlight with him, but the way he held onto me and kept me close felt good enough. His star was bright enough for both of us, and his dreams were worth all the risks, even if they were my dreams first.

But when he left our town–leaving me in it–the damage in his wake was devastating.  I spent a decade trying to piece together my broken heart. A decade trying to avoid his music, a nearly impossible feat considering he was selling out arenas and piling up Grammys. While he tore through city after city, I built a quiet life as a music teacher in my hometown.

I’d made peace with the fact that a now-famous rockstar once held my hand and told me he loved me. But when he shows up unannounced, begging for help, I’m sucked right back into his gravitational pull.

I want to hate him. I want to punish him for turning his back on me. But I can’t when he’s so broken. And the more time we spend in our present talking about our past, the more I start to wonder if maybe Johnny left to save us all from the storm.

Maybe that story about me and the famous rockstar has a lot more story to be told.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The Moon and Back is a messy, glorious, raw, vulnerable, second-chance rockstar romance. Johnny and Brynn’s story was a heartbreaking one, but out of the ashes of their torched relationship comes something beautiful.

The story begins when Johnny and Brynn are seniors in high school. He’s a new-to-town football star and she’s in the marching band. While they are on opposite ends of the high school social strata, Brynn and Johnny are kindred souls and have an immediate connection. He does not have the best home life, and Brynn quickly becomes his safe place. As she introduces him to her love of music, their friendship blooms into a hot and heavy teenage romance — but then one day, Johnny essentially disappears, leaving Brynn heartbroken, confused and angry.

Ten years later, Brynn is the music teacher at their old high school and Johnny is a music superstar. While he should be on top of the world, Johnny has been battling his inner demons for a long time and has nowhere else to turn but than to ask his high school sweetheart for help. Brynn never got over the way Johnny ghosted her, however, and isn’t too quick to forgive him. Will these two be able to get past their past?

The story unfolds through past and present chapters, and I loved getting the background and history between these two characters. It’s told from Brynn’s POV, and I really would have loved to have gotten Johnny’s perspective. This story is full of so much angst, but the payoff is well worth the wait!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.