by April-Maye (link)
Genre drama/angst
Pairings Zac/OFC
Length 14 chapters
Status Unfinished
There are few stories that focus on the younger Hanson children, and what I’ve seen of those that do, they tend to be rather sensationalist portrayals of the damaging effect of fame. While The Last of the Rock Stars begins along these lines, it develops into something better that was, regretfully, never finished.
April-Maye reveals only a few background details at first, so it’s hard to understand how Avery, Diana and the fictional youngest Hanson sibling have come to live in abject poverty, not to mention how Diana has become horribly abusive. This feels over the top, but as Avery meets a sympathetic soul and begins to tell her story, the details fall into place and it all makes a little more sense.
Still, April-Maye doesn’t reveal everything, and a few years are left out of the flashbacks. We don’t get to see what happened immediately after the fracturing of the family, nor do we get to see any sort of resolution or reconciliation. Truthfully, I’m not sure that The Last of the Rock Stars is the sort of story that would have ended happily. And that’s okay. What’s here, though brief in chapter count and chapter length, is a more nuanced tale of fame gone wrong that it appears on the surface, and while it isn’t quite perfect in its incomplete state, it’s pretty close.
Review by Bethany (website)