** I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affects my opinions or review. :) 
 I'm gonna start by saying this is more like 4.5 Stars, but I just loved this book so much I bumped it to the 5 rather than 4. 
 This book was one heck of a ride. Literally. 
 17 year-old Ali Collins lost her hearing completely seven years ago due to a brain tumor, taking away her aspiration of being a child prodigy turned great musician, and shortly afterward lost her mother. Now she lives with her abusive father, getting by each day with the hope and dream of escaping and starting over in a place where she will be accepted and finally happy. When her best friend Avery drags her to the concert of the popular chart-topping band Tone Deaf, she never expected that one night- and the band's lead singer, Jace Beckett- to be the start of her escape into the life she wants. 
 The premise is the thing that really hooked my interest in this book. You've got the classic girl meets guy scenario, except his world is music, and hers is silent. That right there made me want to figure out how that could possibly work, and holy CRAP did I get a hell of an answer. 
 The characters in this book were great. Jace, when we first meet him, is a complete asshole, but I loved seeing him evolve throughout the book as Ali and the reader got to know more about him and his story, and developed an understanding of why he acted like he did. Ali is one of my favorite female protagonists I've read about it. She was fiery and so full of life, even when in her darkest moments. She was also compassionate and I thought she and Jace complemented each other well-they brought out the hope in one another. I also LOVED the dual POVs from them throughout the book;it gave great insight to both characters. Avery and Killer have to be my favorite characters from the book, though. They were both absolutely hilarious and wonderful friends. 
 The thing that took this book to the next level was the way it handled the fragile issue of abuse. Both protagonists experienced it in their lives, and the author handled that part of the story with grace and honesty, and in a way that was eye-opening to me, but also not too heavy. It added depth to the book and further fleshed out the backstory, and played a key role in all of the events in the book. The author also wrote from the perspective of Ali, who is deaf, in a way that made me see she had really done research on the Deaf community, and that whole little subplot added more to the story, with the use of ASL and reading the thoughts of Ali not being able to understand certain things if she couldn't read the person's lips, and was also another link in bringing the two main characters together. 
 I really wish this book had been longer. I would have loved to have seen more events/action happen on the road, more excursions from Ali or Jace's perspective. I felt like right as all of the band members had finally warmed to Ali, and she and Jace's relationship was finally taking off, the big ending happened and then I flipped the page to see "Epilogue: 8 Months Later" and freaked out because I desperately wanted to see what had happened after the events of the ending (which took me by COMPLETE surprise, just saying). I just wanted more. Then again, I also loved every bit of what I was given, so I can't really complain. 
 I cannot WAIT to read more works from Olivia Rivers. This book impressed me with how much I genuinely adored it. A quick and romantic read, it's a story filled with unforgettable characters and two separate struggles to overcome past specters , "serva me, servo te", a road trip of rediscovery, and music music MUSIC. This book hits shelves in May of 2016 from Sky Pony Press, and I can't recommend it enough!!!!