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So first off, I haven’t read the other books in this series, but I’ve read other works from this author and I already knew what to expect.
I knew it was going to be steamy, I knew it was going to be sweet, and I knew there would be very flawed but original characters – that’s exactly what we got.
This book met all my expectations, and from the very beginning, I was so intrigued.
In fact, I literally had to go and search for the book cover model – that’s how hooked I was. I think I ended up going down a rabbit hole on his Instagram account, and I don’t regret the two hours I spent scrolling – Google Jerrin Strenge.
I don’t read a lot of second chance romance novels because it hits a bit too close to home, if you know what I mean.
But when I can stomach a second chance romance, it’s usually because one character is actively pining for the other. I don’t want it to just be that they happen to meet again by accident – I need an engineered circumstance that brings them back together. One person should have been keeping tabs on the other and still be in love.
In this book, it turns out there’s a very big reason why they had to separate, but they still deeply cared for each other, and that’s everything.
I haven’t actually read a rockstar romance in a hot minute, but I do remember them always being intense. That sense of family between the band members is always present, and we get that here too.
I love how close they all are, how much they care for one another. And also, I love the fact that he is absolutely whipped for her – in case that wasn’t obvious from what I said earlier.
I don’t know if this classifies as a spoiler, but the grandma of the female lead absolutely stole the show. She made me think a lot about growing old, and I had questions like: how do I want to grow old? What are the things we’ll cherish as we age? Who are the people we’ll hold on to?
One thing I’ve noticed in this book and in several other contemporary romance novels (and even a few historical ones) is how simplified the language has become. I’m all for accessible literature because I believe everyone should be able to read and understand a book.
But when even the dialogue between adult characters feels overly simplified, like they’re teenagers, it just throws me off. The characters in this book are over 30, but they talk like teens. It felt a little disjointed, and I couldn’t quite reconcile everything in my head.
That said, I really loved the fact that they were so well-suited for each other. Their chemistry was out of this world. They gave each other exactly what they needed. They were home to one another.
And while I can’t say I’d make the same decision she made, I can see why. Because really, she had been living half a life without him, and he had been a shell without her. It was only when they were together that they truly felt like full human beings again.
Another thing I really liked about this book was the balance between the flashbacks and the present. It felt like we were growing with them as teenagers while also seeing how things were unfolding in the present.
That was really important to the story because we needed to understand how it all started – and how it ended – to get the full context of the present events.
Throughout the book, we’re essentially in therapy with him, and through that therapy, we learn more about their relationship and their past. I thought that part was so well done by the author.
So please, read this book if you want a very sweet and very spicy rockstar romance with found family and lots of side characters who are just so lovely and who make you curious to know their stories too.
