Irresistible Refrain Rock Star Romance Tempest Book 1 edition by Michelle Mankin Literature Fiction eBooks
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Two years ago everything changed for the remaining members of the Seattle rock band Tempest.
Two years is a long time.
Too long to keep on remembering.
Not nearly long enough to forget.
In trouble with nowhere else to go songstress Lace Lowell seeks refuge with the band during their stop in New York City. It's a risky move for her because they are both there, two impossibly good looking men whose lives are inseparably entwined with hers. One who bruised her heart and one who smashed it into pieces.
Warren “War” Jinkins, the mercurial lead singer of Tempest, has always had a thing for Lace. But then again so does his best friend and band mate.
Bryan “Bullet” Jackson, the sinfully handsome tat-sleeved lead guitarist, has a bad boy reputation befitting his nickname. For the past two years Bullet’s had a rule with the groupies one time, never twice, leave ‘em satisfied, but always leave ‘em.
Two guys, one woman, and a host of dark secrets all together within the tight confines of a tour bus as the group travels cross country.
Can the past be forgotten and buried?
Will friendships prevail?
Or will the three of them succumb to seductive impulses too addictive to resist?
** Irresistible Refrain is a gritty rock and roll tale intended for mature readers seventeen and up. Contains sexual situations, strong language, and drug use. **
Irresistible Refrain Rock Star Romance Tempest Book 1 edition by Michelle Mankin Literature Fiction eBooks
To start, for some reason I thought this might read as a ménage based on the back cover. Not so. If you are looking for mindless drivel, this probably isn't for you. If you are looking for something that makes you focus a little instead of just breezing through, give this a go. I read contracts all day, and when I read romances I tend to want something that I don't have to concentrate a bit to follow along with. I think part of my lower rating is because I had to concentrate a bit more on this than I was in the mood for. I read based on my mood & had I realized that going in, I probably would have saved this for a different day.I appreciate a prologue and I don't mind a couple jumps in time at the beginning of a book but in this one, there were too many jumps by three different characters. You were tossed back and forth in time through a character reminiscing and it made for a very disjointed story. Add in the storyline with the drug use and I was becoming rather annoyed. I usually sit and read these stories straight through the but this one I set down for a day and had to make a conscious effort to pick back up.
I give this three stars because it did get better for me. I picked it back up because I wanted to know how the author resolved the storylines. I was satisfied with the way it played out for the most part and generally, I'd say this was a good book. Just know going in that for about the first half there are jumps breaking the story flow and there's instances of drug use that appear casual but become central to the overall resolution of the story.
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Irresistible Refrain Rock Star Romance Tempest Book 1 edition by Michelle Mankin Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I'm not going to sugarcoat it, this is, more often than not, not a pretty book. It's gritty. It's angsty. At times it's downright ugly. But it is also wonderful. And definitely irresistible.
Bryan and Lace have a beautiful history in the midst of too much ugliness. But when the 5 year old daughter of a junkie tells her brother's best friend that she thinks he is Prince Charming and is going to marry him one day....well, it would take a blacker soul than mine not to melt.
Lace grows up to be a hot mess, but something about her called to me more than most heroines do. She has a certain honesty about her that is completely beguiling even when she is doing very stupid things. I admire her strength and determination through all the crap - some put on her, some done to herself.
Bry... well, I have always been a sucker for the guitarist. He does nothing but fan those flames, at least for the most part. Overall a really worthy hero, and definitely earns those Prince Charming points eventually.
War.... I can't say that he drew me in at any point, but had to laugh when he was accused of the heinous LSD (lead singer disease.). All of my nearest and dearest know how I detest that plague (see earlier note about guitarists - even in my fictional escapes I tend to stick to my own rules.). I suppose I can't deny that I am still curious about him though.
Dizzy, though, that curiosity is compelling. (I didn't say they had to be lead guitarist.). This is the first book in a series so I am crossing everything that he has his own book in here somewhere. I own the box set of the first four books, so I am definitely hopping right into the next one. I forsee this being a Tempest weekend - and I am definitely not complaining.
So it stars with a girl and a boy, then another boy makes it a love triangle. And not the good kind. Two best friends fall for the same girl. Ultimatums, drug use, emotional and physical cheating, immaturity, the list goes on and on. By the middle of the book, I wanted to either give up or reach in the book and throat punch pretty much the entire cast. Plus, there's a semi-cliffhanger.
This was tough to read at times but at some others it was sweet and kind Moving on to book 2.
As for the book, yes it was great. The characters were really good for me in their real factor. What I loved was that they all grew up in the same low income areas, fought to stay alive and didnt get fame and fortune thrown their way. The author does an absolute service to the reader in the description of drug use, showing the consequences, and the basic cause and effect.
I think I liked Dizzy and his sister Lace more because they were not at each others side at all times. I also liked how Dizzy knew the bad things Lace was doing and let her do them. Too many books show sort of unreal relationships. His was better because he knew she was doing drugs and also too the chance that she would eventually hit rock bottom and do it on her own. As with other vices you sure cant come between an addict and her needle.
The main characters Bryan and Warren were friends who shared a few events as kids that leads to Bryan having the utmost loyalty to Warren.
The miss here for me is slight. The first is the time frame and one flashback was 2 years and one was 6 years. I think I would have loved it had it been alternating chapters of time framed references or a solid book starting with the past. The past explains the future pull between the characters so it would have been greater for me to read it that way.
A little confusion with the names too Bry & Bryan and Warren or War were bad enough but then add the character of Dizzy and a nickname of bullet and I was lost at times.
Last on my list which, like I said was slight, is an aids test. Using needles and no threat or questions was a little strange.
If you love REAL and RAW this is for you. I loved it!
To start, for some reason I thought this might read as a ménage based on the back cover. Not so. If you are looking for mindless drivel, this probably isn't for you. If you are looking for something that makes you focus a little instead of just breezing through, give this a go. I read contracts all day, and when I read romances I tend to want something that I don't have to concentrate a bit to follow along with. I think part of my lower rating is because I had to concentrate a bit more on this than I was in the mood for. I read based on my mood & had I realized that going in, I probably would have saved this for a different day.
I appreciate a prologue and I don't mind a couple jumps in time at the beginning of a book but in this one, there were too many jumps by three different characters. You were tossed back and forth in time through a character reminiscing and it made for a very disjointed story. Add in the storyline with the drug use and I was becoming rather annoyed. I usually sit and read these stories straight through the but this one I set down for a day and had to make a conscious effort to pick back up.
I give this three stars because it did get better for me. I picked it back up because I wanted to know how the author resolved the storylines. I was satisfied with the way it played out for the most part and generally, I'd say this was a good book. Just know going in that for about the first half there are jumps breaking the story flow and there's instances of drug use that appear casual but become central to the overall resolution of the story.
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