Counterpoint by Hailey Frost

June 20, 2025
Rock Star, Romance

This book was personally purchased.

series

Hystoria

# 3

format

eBook

length

369

narrators

publisher

Self-Published

published

Old and new wounds. Sparks in the air. And one road trip they’ll never forget.

Harper
Leaving the city was supposed to be a fresh start—a chance to escape the wreckage of my last relationship and breathe again. A quiet, drama-free road trip home was all I wanted.
But my brother has other plans. Now, I’m stuck sharing the drive with his grumpy best friend—the same man who rejected me years ago and can’t seem to stand being in the same room as me.

Too bad for him… I’m not that lovestruck girl anymore.

Simon
With the band on break, I feel restless—like I’m waiting for something to happen. So when my bandmate insists I tag along on a road trip with his sister, I figure it’ll be miserable.
And at first? It is. She’s infuriating. Too stubborn, too fiery, too tempting for her own good.
But the more miles we put behind us, the more I realize… I don’t hate her. Not even close. In fact, the feelings I buried all those years ago? They’re coming back fast—and this time, they’re impossible to ignore.

But is this just a detour… or the start of something real?

I picked up Counterpoint by Hailey Frost solely based off what I’d seen on TikTok. This was just not it. I felt so bored waiting for anything to happen. I felt like I was on a drive to nowhere as Harper and Simon drive back to her hometown.

The set-up was great. The forced proximity should have created the tension between Harper and Simon. But it fell flat. Simon was closed off for the majority with Harper trying to move everything forward and move on with her life. The spice was meh because there were no sparks to be felt between the two. Then, out of nowhere, Simon decides to blow up on Harper with what he thought about her given the very little he actually knows about her life and when he gets a reality check, realizes he messed up. You’d think there’d be an epic grovel afterward, but there wasn’t. And she just is okay with it given that it wasn’t even the first time she had him saying something horrible to/about her. This didn’t even read as enemies to lovers. It was so one-sided with Harper crushing hard on Simon who felt way too self-absorbed to care about anything or anyone else.

Sadly, I don’t recommend Counterpoint by Hailey Frost. It felt lackluster and boring, despite being 300 pages long.