Synopsis:
A band on the brink. A love worth playing for.
When record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they’re bombing at a dive bar in their hometown. Since the tragic death of their manager, the band has been in a downward spiral and Theo has been dispatched to coax a new – and successful – album out of them, or else let them go.
Theo is struck right away by Hannah, the group’s impetuous lead singer, who has gone off script in debuting a new song-and, in fact, a whole new sound. Theo’s supposed to get the band back on track, but when their new music garners an even wider fan base than before, the plans begin to change-new tour, new record, new start.
But Hannah’s descent into grief has larger consequences for the group, and she’s not willing to let go yet. not for fame or love.
For fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and In Five Years, this is a love story – just not the one you’re expecting.
Review:
Move aside Daisy Jones and the Six, I’ve found a new obsession.
Heartwarming, heartbreaking. A tender character story with an uplifting, cinematic plot and a relatable study of grief and denial.
Record executive, Theo, is sent to either fire or rescue The Future Saints, the band’s future hanging by its last thread as the group’s impetuous lead singer, Hannah, seems embroiled in a downward spiral of self-destruction.
A bunch of suburban geeks, sluts, and troublemakers meet at college. Sounds like the beginning of a joke. Instead, it was the start of something spectacular. Where the outsiders push their way in through art and expression.
…no matter how much emotion you pack into a song, how much sound and fury, love and longing and lament, it’s always going to end. It simply can’t last. To me, that makes music the form of art that best represents the human experience. Writing songs is performing, on a small scale, what it means to be a being that exists as a temporary eruption of thought and feeling. We’re fireworks, right? This beautiful glittering explosion that’s dying as soon as it starts living.
A singer who is emotionally fragile but will never admit it. Someone who wants to tear the world down so everyone else can feel a semblance of what she is.
A new, unwanted manager, a Suit, a guy with a saviour complex who had to balance the desire for a promotion and recognition, the need to people-please, and the clear care he has for the band.
I haven’t even got into the other band membership who are fully fleshed out: a hot, self-confident guitarist and a gentle, hippie drummer. A dysfunctional friendship that functions as a family unit.
The formatting is also another highlight. Articles, interviews, even TikToks. This is so modern and now that it fully immersed me.
Don’t go in expecting a romance. This is a genre-spanning story about what success means, looks like, and costs. What grief and denial look like. What family means. What recovery can look like.
This was almost a five-star, but I wanted slightly more from the ending. As you can imagine, I don’t want to say more due to spoilers.
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