Alicia Thompson has the most amazing Substack newsletter (The Same Songs Over and Over) where she delves deep into music and popular culture, so I was excited to see if her fiction is just as engaging. Short answer, it really is! Never Been Shipped is terrific and a love letter to pop music in all…
Erin Dunn’s He’s to Die For is one of those books I could tell I was going to love from the very first page. It’s a superb combination of mystery and romance in which the author – in her first published novel, no less – does a terrific job of balancing the various elements of…
Readers kept telling me Julie Kriss was worth it. After reading the Riggs Brothers series, I wasn’t convinced. The books were fun, but they skated on charm more than substance. Still, there was enough promise to make me try her latest, You Give Me That Feeling. Now, I get it. Katie Armstrong is an actress…
Rock star romances aren’t books I actively seek out, but when I saw Kaje Harper had a new release coming out in the Road to Rocktoberfest series (a multi author endeavour that adds new books every October), I decided to give it a go. Missing Chord is a charming, tender and thoughtful second chance love…
Girls with Bad Reputations is an excellent novel which manages to continue Axelrod’s The Lillys series while also standing on its own two feet. All about breaking free of familial obligations and expectations to be true to yourself and those you love, it’s a fantastic novel that manages to also realistically capture the music world….
Rock and roll queen Susanna Hoffs makes her debut as a fiction writer with the gutsy, tough, romantic and engaging This Bird Has Flown, all about a one-hit wonder who finds a chance at redemption – both romance and career wise – on a flight to England. At thirty-three, Jane Start is washed up. Recently…
It took me a little while to get into Exposed, but once I did I thoroughly enjoyed it. Taking two characters who have obviously had pent-up feelings for each other for a while and who are part of a tight-knit friend group, and throwing them into a ‘casual’ relationship is bound to make for a…
One of the greatest gifts of These Times to me has been my discovery of how much I love K-Pop. Short for “Korean Pop Music”, it’s a behemoth industry that I am many years late to the party on, but ever so grateful to be here. The boyband BTS is the major name in this…
Ainslie Paton can always be counted on to write sexy, compelling, and unique romances and she’s done it again with One Wicked Lick from the Drummer, the third story in her The One series. Mena Grady had a wild life as an older teenager, hitting the groupie circuit for popular rock groups, and hooking up…
Narrated by Greg Boudreaux Counterpoint, book two in Anna Zabo’s trilogy about rock group Twisted Wishes, focuses on the band’s lead guitarist, Domino Grinder, a mouthy, tatted-up, leather-clad Rock god who struts about the stage shirtless, oozing sex appeal and attitude. Domino may be the most recognisable member of the group, but he’s also fiercely…
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