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The Day The Music Died. Waylon Jennings Was The Musician Who Lived To Become One Of The Most respected, influential, and beloved Country Artists Of All Time :

Imagine what it was like for a young Waylon Jennings to meet the one and only Buddy Holly almost by accident in a Lubbock, Texas restaurant. Both becoming friends Buddy would become one of the biggest music stars in the world the next year, and Waylon would work as a disc jockey on a Country station from Texas.

Once Buddy parted ways with the original Crickets he would take Waylon under his wing and develop him as an artist. Arranging and producing, even playing guitar on his first songs. When Buddy decided to go back on the road in the winter of 1959 he met up with Waylon, handed him a bass guitar, and told him he had a few days to learn how to play it because he was taking him to play on the road in his band.

The excitement Waylon had of playing with his mentor would be short lived. The tour was miserable. Traveling on a bus where the heater didn't work most of the time. That's when a very fed up Buddy decided to charter a flight out of Clear Lake, Iowa in the early hours of February 3, 1959. Waylon was supposed to be on that plane but J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) wasn't feeling well so Waylon generously gave his seat to him.

Once Buddy found out Waylon had given up his seat he began to tease Waylon saying " I hope the bus freezes up on you." And Waylon responded "Well I hope your plane crashes". Words that would haunt Waylon the rest of his life.

The next day Waylon would learn that the plane did crash. A devastated Waylon would be forced to finish the remaining shows by the promoters, singing all of Buddy's songs. Once he got home he felt so guilty about the words he told Buddy that he fell into a deep depression and became a drug addict.

Finally, after years of abuse, he would once again return to music thanks to his friend Willie Nelson who encouraged him to start recording.

Through the late 1960s into the 1970s Waylon would truly become his own man. Known as one of the innovators of the "Outlaw Country" scene and he had a reputation of putting on some of the greatest live shows of the time.

In 1979 he would become the famous balladeer on the Dukes Of Hazzard television show, even writing the theme song "Good Ole' Boys".

Through it all and all of his success he never ever forgot about his mentor Buddy. Always willing to tell the old stories, never sugar coating or exaggerating anything as many people of the past do.

Waylon is the ultimate proof that we truly don't know what would have become of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, or The Big Bopper.

In 1959 if you would've told Waylon he would've ended up a Country Legend he would've laughed at you. At that time he was all about Rock And Roll. One thing is for sure, like Waylon they all had exceptional talent (especially Buddy Holly) and would've made some type of mark in the industry as the 1960s began.

Waylon would pass away on February 13, 2002 at the age of 64 years old due to complications from diabetes. Just a few days after the 43rd anniversary of the famous plane crash.

Thank goodness for Country Music and basically every music fan that he too wasn't on that plane.

Hank definitely wouldn’t have done it his way...

Essential Albums :

Waylon At JD’s (Live Album) (1964)

Folk-Country (1966)

Leavin’ Town (1966)

Nashville Rebel (Soundtrack) (1966)

Waylon Sings Ol’ Harlan (1967)

Love Of The Common People (1967)

The One And Only (1967)

Hangin’ On (1968)

Only The Greatest (1968)

Jewels (1968)

Just To Satisfy You (1969)

Waylon (1970)

Singer Of Sad Songs (1970)

The Taker/Tulsa (1971)

Cedartown , Georgia (1971)

Good Hearted Woman (1972)

Ladies Love Outlaws (1972)

Lonesome, On’ry And Mean (1973)

Honky Tonk Heroes (1973)

This Time (1974)

The Ramblin’ Man (1974)

Dreaming My Dreams (1975)

Are You Ready For The Country (1976)

Waylon Live (Expanded Edition) (1976)

Wanted ! The Outlaws (With Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser (1976)

Mackintosh & T.J. (Soundtrack) (1976)

Ol’ Waylon (1977)

I’ve Always Been Crazy (1978)

Waylon & Willie (With Willie Nelson) (1978)

What Goes Around Comes Around (1979)

Music Man (1980)

Black On Black (1982)

It’s Only Rock +Roll (1983)

Waylon And Company (1983)

Never Could Toe The Mark (1984)

Turn The Page (1985)

Sweet Mother Texas (1986)

Will The Wolf Survive (1986)

Hangin’ Tough (1987)

A Man Called Hoss (1987)

Full Circle (1988)

The Eagle (1990)

Too Dumb For New York City, Too Ugly For L.A. (1992)

Ol’ Waylon Sings Ol’ Hank (1992)

Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals, & Dirt (1993)

Waymore’s Blues (Part II) (1994)

Right For The Time (1996)

Closing In On The Fire (1998)

Goin’ Down Rockin’ The Last Recordings (2012)

Highwaymen -

Highwayman (1985)

Highwayman 2 (1990)

The Road Goes On Forever (1995

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Zenith (The Androma Saga) by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings

Hey everyone! It's been a hot minute since I've last written to you guys. I haven't read a whole lot, only 3 books so far this year, but I'm ok with that. I read for pleasure, and for myself after all!

So Zenith... If you don't know what this book is about, here's a brief synopsis... It follows our main character, Androma or Andi as she's usually called by her team of marauders. Andi and her team get caught up in a quest to save the general's son, but along the way, past relationships resurface, and a war that they didn't want to get caught up in threatens to swallow them whole.

**This review may contain some very small details of the book, which could be viewed as spoilers if you haven't yet read it**

Now... to be honest I had very (and I mean very) low expectations going into this book. If you've been with me for a while, you'll know I read one of Lindsay's books called The Murder Complex and I haaaaaaated it. I am also not the biggest fan of Sci-fi, but I'll touch on that later. Furthermore, I wasn't sure how the writing and story telling, this being Sasha's first book, would turn out combined with the bad experience I had with Lindsay's previous book. However, I'm happy to say that my expectations were exceeded!!!! I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. I wanted to know what was going to happen, and I did not see the plot twist coming.

However I do have some problems with this book. Firstly, the characters. Androma is a cut and paste version of Celaena Sardothien. This makes me really sad because I love Celaena! To me, she's the perfect amount bad ass and sensitive. She's a well rounded character. She has flaws. Andi on the other hand, is a bit... How shall I put it... One dimensional? She has this whole "I'm a fierce af warrior, I'm the Bloody Baroness and I will kill and destroy you. I want to see you die!!!" but then on the other hand she has that fake sensitive side, where she mourns the losses of those she's killed and views herself a monster. This is just kind of confusing I guess.

And Dex... he was just too cliche for me. It seemed Sasha and Lindsay were trying too hard to make him that "handsome and strong, misunderstood-hiding-secrets-lover-boy" type of character. When he and Androma had their moment halfway through the book, when they basically mutually say that they've had their time but they can no longer share a life together, I was like whaaa? Andi has found out the truth that he was keeping from her, and they obviously have some sort of feelings for each other, yet they don't want to give it a second chance?

My least favourite character was actually Gilly. Sorry, but I don't think a 12 year old cutesy-on-the-outside, but hungry-for-death-and-murder on the inside, is realistic whatsoever. I don't read many books with younger siblings or characters in them, so when I do I'm very picky. I hate when they are represented as annoying. And to me, that's how Gilly was.

One of my favourite characters was actually the AI, Alfie. I found myself lolling when he and Memory were having their little flirty moments. I hope we see more of him in the sequel, although I am a bit confused as to why he was destroyed? Like, Valen has altered DNA? So his mind controlling ability, or whatever, isn't natural then? Or was the altered DNA the Zenith thing that Nor created? So Is Valen actually not evil, and is just being controlled by Nor???? Someone explain.

I liked reading from so many different POV's. It made the pacing of the book quite fast and you got to know these 6 (there were 6 POV's) characters better. I actually liked reading into Nor and Klaren, because you didn't fully know what was going on until the end of the book. So I thought that was well done. I didn't have a favourite POV to read from. They were all pretty neutral for me.

I thought that the writing was good. I couldn't tell when it was Sasha or Lindsay writing, which was actually something I was looking for all while reading. I feel like co-authoring brings about many new challenges; what if you don't like how the other author wrote or changed something but they love it? It's great that their words and ideas flowed.

I do think however that there were some repetitive writing styles, specifically these poetic descriptions. They weren't bad in my opinion. It's just nice to see some variety.

Overall I thought this book was really heavy on cliche YA tropes. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm trash for certain tropes, but they have to be done well. Does that makes sense?

I was reading some reviews of Zenith on GoodReads and my god!!! People were being so harsh!! I understand that this book isn't amazing, but sheesh people! I read one person say they think Sasha should finish College before writing another book. Like how rude???? To any young aspiring author out there- YOU do NOT have to put your writing on hold until after you finish your education. Writers write. That's how they practise. Of course, you will learn and get better with an education, but it's not like thats your golden ticket to start writing a book.

For the most part, other reviewers agreed that Androma tried too hard to be like Celaena, but other critiques were that she was boring and one dimensional. Some said the first half of this book seemed more edited than the second half, and after pondering this I can say that I agree. However there was a lot more action in the second half, so not as much room for the fluffy poetic descriptions.

Another critique was that the book itself didn't need to be as long as it was. I definitely think there were some parts that shouldn't have been included. There were like 50 pages left when Andi and her gang went to that Ucatoria ball and I just felt like it was an odd time to be having a ball, and introducing new characters, so late into the book, and nothing was even resolved! I guess, that created the climax, and the last few chapters of the book were super short and easy to fly through. One part that, in my opinion, should have definitely been edited out, was when Andi is reunited with her mother. Firstly, her father had previously said she was ill or something, so that was confusing. Secondly, it seems that it was just put in place to show how bad of a relationship her and Andi had together. That could have easily been done with some sort of flash-back chapter. In fact, the whole family dynamic seemed really strange to me. When Andi is first reunited with her father, she has these mixed emotions, about wanting to be strong in front of him, and also wanting to crumble and be held by him. When she meets with her mother, she is so infuriated that she threatens to skin both her mother and father alive, and hang their skin like a flag from her spaceship. I mean!!! What!!!!!

Something else I need to touch on is the fact that so many people were offended that Sasha was handed this opportunity "on a silver platter". Sasha makes youtube videos in the booktube community, so obviously, she has a following and can easily get her voice out there. I have to admit, when I heard they were # 1 New York Times Bestselling Authors, I rolled my eyes. If every one of Sasha's subscribers bought her book, then of course she'd become a bestselling author! But I'm not upset about this. Sasha loves books! Her youtube channel (Abookutopia) is dedicated to that. To me, I have so much more respect for someone who's written a book from the youtube world, if they actually genuinely enjoy reading and writing. I would much rather read a book from a youtuber who makes videos around bookish topics, rather than some beauty guru or daily vlogger. So there. Get over the fact that her following probably had a big hand in getting her and Lindsay that title.

Writing is a process. And it takes time to find your voice. I think this book read too much like a knock-off Throne of Glass book. I'm kind of confused with myself because in a way, I think that's why I liked it?? LOL. I'm not a sci-fi person, but this book didn't really read like a sci-fi book. It was totally more fantasy just set in space.

I think that's all I can say for now.

3.5-4/5 Stars.

If you are getting into Fantasy/Sci-fi (that isn't super heavy on the Sci-fi lol) then I'd really recommend you read this! If you have read tons of YA fantasy and are looking for something different, well, this may not be the book for you.

Thanks so much for reading! What are your thoughts on Zenith???

- T

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