One-Hit Wonder

I only found this author a year ago,now looking for everything she’s written. This book started with a blast of action, and just kept coming. Couldn’t wait to find find out what would happen to the sisters… and flint, lol, the mother, gill.realistic language (which doesn’t bother me) ….the story isn’t meant for a prissy reader…it’s about hardcore conflicts, real people who are struggling with real problems….and real resolutions. Couldn’t put it down, and loved every minute of the journey. Great read

"One-hit Wonder" by Lisa Jewell is a story of a young country woman whose life changed by an incident. That incident was the dead of her half-sister, an once famous pop singer. The young woman used to live with her unhealthy mother in the countryside. No boyfriend, no job, and being controlled by her mother, she found her life boring. Her self-esteem was very low and she was very afraid to leave home. When the shocking news of the dead of her half sister arrived, her mother ordered her to go to London to collect all her sister's stuff and come back in two days. However, when she came to London, she found out that the lifestyle in there did not rejected her like that in the small town. Also, she discovered some facts that led her to a conclusion that her siser had a secret life. With the help of her sister's best friend and butler, she finally found the secret.After the incident, she grew up and was more confident than before. She decided to stay in London and started her career. Meanwhile, her mother became less demanding and found a companion.The reason why I give this book 3 stars is it contains bad language. Usually, the author used some four-letter words as a part of the charaters's speech and somehow, she overused them. I felt annoyed when reading them. Moreover, the plot is guessable, which makes the story less interesting.

I'm not sure what I was expecting from this book, but whatever it was, I got more. This is not your typical Brit Chic Lit. This is the story of Ana, shy, quiet, self-effacing who is sent to London by her overbearing mother to pack up the belongings of her half-sister Bee who has died suddenly. Ana barely knew her half-sister who was several years old than she, but had always imagined that her life was glamorous and fun-filled. But after arriving in London, going through Bee's things and meetingsome of Bee's friends, a different picture of Bee emerges. Ana finds that Bee's life seems to be a mystery on top of a mystery. She becomes determined to find out all she can about Bee's life and what led her to suicide. This story is beautifully told. I couldn't stop reading, although did not want the book to end. This is the one of the best books I've read in a long time.

I was again disappointed by Lisa Jewell with One Hit Wonder. This story was a bit out there and ends so unbelievably happy and perfect, it's sickening.The story is about a beautiful and troubled pop star named Bee, who dies young. Her agoraphobic, mentally abusive mother, and her sister she hasn't seen in over a decade. Ana, Bee's sister, goes to London to clean out the apartment of her estranged older sister. She comes in contact with her friends and tries to explain the mystery of her life and her death. It's all just way too unreal and out there

I’ve read a few of this author’s books and this one was disappointing. Not like her usual books that draw you in. After chapter 4 I gave up.

I have putting off reading this book all summer because I was not in the mood for it, what a mistake. One Hit Wonder was absolutely fantastic. It is a story of growth and understanding, finding yourself while uncovering the mystery that was your sister. This book was particularly engrossing, poignantly affecting a range of emotions (comedy, drama, romance); the moment I finished it I put it on my sister's desk for her to read. I have read all of Lisa Jewell's books and this story of Ana's search for her sister Bee and the discoveries that develop make this my easy favorite.

A great story about two very different sisters. Lisa Jewell is a clever story teller. I like the way she gradually gives the reader important information and tells two stories, past and present concurrently. One- Hit-Wonder had me hooked from the first page and I literally couldn't put it down!

Really enjoy the stories composed by this author. Plan to read more of her books!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this as I'm a big fan of this author's work. This is one of her earlier books so she can be forgiven for any mistakes because her writing has always been enticing. I've always started her book and finished it. There was one mistake that annoyed me. It's probably already been pointed out before but the newspaper paper article says that Zander was six months old in December 1986..but then he becomes a sixteen year old boy in August 2000. Because of all the detail surrounding his character, the only discrepancy is that newspaper article, I think. Sorry, I'm a sad pedantic that gets annoyed by that stuff but I insist that it didn't affect my enjoyment of the story and I'm looking forward to catching up with Lisa's more recent books soon. Many thanks. 5*

I can see from reading the reviews that this book attracts somewhat polarised views. I fall somewhere in between but definitely leaning to the positive. I hadn’t realised it was an early book of Lisa Jewel. My kindle version didn’t show publication dates. There are some awful characters, the mother!! But it is not hard to read and it does make some pertinent points about young aspiring “celebrities”, and old “has beens”!!! The book predates social media as we know it today. Bee read her publicity in the Times!! It would be infinitely more savage today. It is however worth a read

This is one of the top 3 books I've read this year, if you flip the top. So it's the worse 3 I've read. I understand that apparently Lisa's more recent books are better and for the sake of her fans, I sure hope so.This book was just terrible from start to finish. Didn't like the characters. Didn't appreciate the plot. Found the mystery wasn't really a mystery. Really, at any point I could have ended the book and feel absolutely no curiosity towards what would have been. Having read it till the end, I can certify that there was indeed nothing to deserve reading this book till the end.It's built around the mysterious life of one-hit wonder Bee, but if you haven't seen or spoken to your sister in 11 years, then everything she's done is a mystery, right? Granted, there are also her friends, Lol and Flint, who also don't know a lot of stuff about her, but that says stuff about their friendship, not how mysterious Bee is. Her sister, Anna, manages to uncover it all though.The characters are dull and have a circus-like, freak show quality to them, if you're into that sort of thing, but I'm not. A dreadful bore.

A really disappointing read, I recently discovered this author and liked what I have read in the past, but this book is a real disappointment, I've given it three stars because of course it is well written, but the plot is boring and I really couldn't care about any of the characters. I tried to read it because I had paid for it but have given up. Skip this one

I've read quite a few Lisa Jewell books in the past, and it's not great literature but usually they have been a good read. This was the worst book of hers I've read, but I've now found out it was one of her early works, so maybe I will give her another chance at some point :)Admittedly, I had just come from a great book which was really well-written and engrossing (The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith), but I found One-hit Wonder full of platitudes and badly written. It managed to be far-fetched and predictable at the same time, and the characters were just not convincing. I guessed two of the plot's main reveals early on in the story and the romantic ending was predictable too. I really only carried on reading because I have to be really struggling not to finish a book.