The Idea Of You by Robinne Lee - Book Review

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This book is an either you love it or hate it kind of book, and I am the first one. For some reason, I could not put this novel down, the moment I picked it up all I could do was keep on turning the pages. And whilst I worked, I craved for my hours to be done so I could go back to reading this novel. This is Robinne Lee's first novel, you might recognise her name as she is firstly an actress, which might surprise some people that this novel is actually good. However, this book did come out in 2017, and since then Lee has not written any other novels, but there is an adaptation of this novel coming out starring the one and only, Anne Hathaway. 

The Idea Of You centres around a 39-year-old mum, Solene, who ends up having to take her fifteen-year-old daughter and friends to meet her favourite boy band, August Moon after her ex-husband cancelled on their child. During this event, Solene meets Hayes Campbell, one of the twenty-year-olds in this band. Neither of them knew that this interaction would end up growing into a more passionate relationship. The question is, how will this couple survive when not only the whole world finds out, but Solene's daughter, who is crushing hard on this celebrity? 

I think the reason why I could not keep this book down is because I wanted to know how it was going to end, whether they were going to stay together, or if they would end up leaving one another due to the age gap and the public world Hayes lived in. (This might be a little spoiler) To inform you all, this novel is not a romance genre, it has romantic elements, but due to how it ends it cannot correctly fit into this genre. 
This book was spilt into different parts, depending on where they were in the world, France, New York, and so on. Doing so made this book easy to read because as the reader you understood where we were in the world as this couple was forever travelling. Without this, it might have confused some people as they might not have been able to stay on top of what was happening. 
Of course, from the blurb, this book gave hints that it would be steamy and wild in some areas, and it definitely was. But it wasn't too much that would make the reader cringe and want to put the book down. 
Although I had my theories on how this novel was going to end, I had hoped that these two would go against the odds, I was rooting for them which shows that Lee is a good writer, because if I did not want these characters to end up with one another, it meant there would be no connection between reader and characters. 

Overall, because of the thrill that this book, gave me, and also made me not know what to do with my life once I finished, I would give it 5/5 stars. And I do hope that one day, Robinne Lee will write some more. 

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