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I LOVED this book. Nothing like a hard rock band member falling for the girl next door. I know. I know I can see you rolling your eyes with this but I‘m telling you the storyline works, the characters are fun and believable and this is one hot and steamy but not gratuitous romance. This is the perfect story to disappear into while real life is a bit of the crazy.

Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ of 5 ⭐s.

WHOO-WEE, THIS WAS PRETTY HOT! I chose to go with this series as my foray into #contemporaryromance because I'm familiar and like Singh's #GuildHunter series, and this turned out to be a pretty good intro! Liked the romance, though my eyebrows did go up a bit at how controlling Fox could be. It's not a deal-breaker for me, personally, but I can see how some people might not be comfortable with it.

I'm not so much into contemporary romance, since my intro to the genre was via urban fantasy and historical romances, but on a whim I decided to give this one a shot because it's written by Nalini Singh and oh. My. GODS. Rock music isn't precisely my genre of choice (I'm more into classical or soundtrack scores) but this...was pretty dang hot. Gonna scoop up the rest of the series now.

While I liked this book, I wasn‘t a huge fan of the rock star. He was arrogant, and manipulative, and very controlling. I also didn‘t like how the main character had to leave her job and her home to be with him. There was also little plot beyond sleeping with and then falling in love with the rock star.

It doesn‘t come close to her psy-changeling and Guild Hunter series, but it was fairly enjoyable to read.

Pic is of my accompanying drink!

Meet my new baby 😍😍 #primedayguilt It's my you're so stressed, you need a present! gift to myself. Yay me. 🤯

And another “research” trip concludes. We had to brave snowmageddon 18 and travel a few hours away but I got to see my favorite guys for the first time in almost a year. Especially the 2 on the left—they give the best hugs and we surprised em by coming to see them in a new (to us) place. #stillnotbookrelated #writinginspiration #music #supportlivemusic

Free on Amazon at the moment!!!! I abandoned my resolution to not start any of her new series and read this (overnight on my staycation to get sleep... yeah, oops! #noregrets !). I prefer her Archangels series but this is a solid read. Enjoyable, interesting characters, well edited and well written. Not a huge plot per se but for a fast relaxing read with a HEA, I‘d definitely recommend Singh.

I initially liked this one a lot. The heroine's great, and the first chunk takes place in Auckland, my favourite city. On top of that, I'm a sucker for stories about a regular person who forms any sort of relationship with a famous person.

Trouble is, the hero's controlling and domineering, and not in a negotiated BDSM way. I hated him. I also wanted a stronger sense of place, especially in the NZ scenes, and the story went on too long. Sigh.

I cooked up a big ol' skillet of cheeseburger gnocchi while I listened to my audiobook. Then I ate too much of it, as you do. #audiocooking

I'm mostly enjoying my third Nalini Singh romance, but holy hell does the narrator's accent work ever annoy me. I was more than an hour in before I realized the heroine is a kiwi, not an American expat, because that's what Keef's voice led me to believe. She attempts a New Zealand accent with one random character, and there're a couple of Aussie accents later on, but that's it.

Boo. I wish they'd hired a kiwi actor to perform this NZ-set story.

I quite liked Singh's Psy-Changeling books, so I gambled on this one... It didn't pay off. For me, a man's hand around a woman's throat is on a spectrum between an unwelcome dominance display and an outright threat. There was enough hand-on-throat in this to utterly put me off. There's a lot of sex, none of it particularly titillating or seductive. I won't be reading the rest of this series.

Next up for #februaryisforromantsy is Nalini Singh's contemporary Rock Kiss series. I had never read her stuff before and I loved it! I can't wait for her to continue the series with one of the hero's rugby-playing brothers! #meghanreadsromantsy #romantsy

A quiet librarian meets a famous rock star at a party next thing you know they're hot and heavy 🔥Of course the woman has to give up her career and her life to follow her man . Grrrr.. I prefer the psy-changeling stories.

While I was trying a sample of Rise by Karina Bliss, I remembered that I have another rock star romance in my Kindle! I was able to get Rock Addiction when it was a freebie a few months ago. Here it is in a #bookandcoffee shot.☕📖 Another go-to cafe for me is Jab, mostly because of their earl grey mocha. Goes perfectly with a cheese tart. Also, they have a sippy cup type of lid.😂

#bookandbreakfast #LitsyCooks #bookandbrew #romantsy #Kindle

Not as good as her paranormal romance, but still great and free this weekend! #readromance #romantsy

Ohh. I love this series. #OSRBC #romantsy

This was OK. I expected a bit more out of Singh.

For some reason Rock Courtship isn't listed on Litsy, but it was a great novella about the relationship between Thea and David. We saw parts of it in Rock Addiction. Sweet and emotional book.

A good contemporary romance, a little repetitive. But honestly doesn't even compare to her paranormal series. I have higher hopes for the next in this series.