by April and Jny (link)
Genre drama, romance
Pairings Zac/OFC
Length prologue and 10 chapters
Status Unfinished
I’m always on the lookout for a unique premise in a hanfic. From the prologue, it’s clear that Like It or Not is unique; rather than focusing on a romance in one or more of the boys’ lives, it centers around the dissolution of Walker and Diana’s marriage and how it affects the band.
It all gets a little complicated and contrived from there, though. For inexplicable reasons, the guys and Walker take off to a small town where they rent some rooms from the girl who, of course, ends up being Zac’s love interest. The multitude of characters not only introduced but narrating within the first few chapters makes the plot even harder to understand and follow. The perspectives aren’t particularly distinct, and I can’t even see the reason for including some of them.
Unfortunately, the story’s unfinished nature means that the interesting premise I saw in the beginning doesn’t get much screen time, so to speak. Teen drama, mostly surrounding the original characters, takes up a lot of the story before Walker and Diana’s separation is paid more than lip service again. Then, of course, April and Jny stopped updating. While I can see a lot of promise here, Like It or Not would have interested me more had it been finished or at least spent less time on the teenage whining.
Review by Bethany (website)