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This HaBO comes from Priya, who is looking for a rock star romance she read while on an epic rock star romance glom – which sounds kind of fun, really.
I love this site (and it’s given me many laughs during tough times and at other times. Wouldn’t want you think I only read it when life’s a misery) but haven’t ever commented. I’m writing now to ask for help from y’all in finding a book I read pretty recently. I read it last year and it was pretty new. I think it was the first of a series (I hope it was–I want to read the rest and that’s why I’m bugging you) I was on a kick of buying stuff from Entangled’s Brazen line so it *may* be from that but I”m not sure. I’ve looked over pages and pages of “rock star” romances on Goodreads and tried other places and haven’t found it so, help, please?
The main characters are children of former (current?) rock stars. The guy is a manager of some other rock group in London? Europe? somewhere and he’s come to the US –I think somewhere in the West because I recall a canyon and different houses in a big canyon place which my imagination was really fond of (I would like to live in a canyon but ideally with no rock stars about. They seem relatively detrimental to health and safety).
I digress–in any case, he was a manager or a promoter, perhaps (are they the same thing? Maybe) who had given up his job because his current group were being arses and he’d come to the canyon to live in the main house. However (obviously) the heroine was there too because their foster/sort of mother (a wife? fan? of one of the older gen rockers and involved with them) had died and left her (heroine) a collection of vintage clothes. The heroine wanted to set up a vintage clothing business.
I am not sure what she did before popping up at the canyon/house with this business plan but she’s the youngest of the children and he’s the oldest. There was a scene where she made the guy try out a vintage jacket and it was all terrific. Or, she thought it (he) was terrific.
Other bits I remember: there are a few other people and one is the son of another of the older gen rockers, another is a daughter who is also a singer. I recall they go listen to her sing at some point (so they do leave the canyon/house).
I realise this isn’t much to go on but the folks here are amazing at finding out books so I hope you can help!
Thank you.
I love the idea of a fashion show of vintage clothing featuring the hero. That’s tickling my “makeover” catnip alarm like whoadarn.
Do you recognize this book at all?
I believe this is my book, Light My Fire, Rock Royalty 1. It’s set in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. There are now three other books in the series and more to come. 🙂
Omg I knew one 😀 Cos yes that must be Christie’s book
Haha! I was so excited I knew one.
Haha, loving that the author popped up as first commenter. That’s one way to win the HABO!
I was (am) the person asking and am *thrilled* that the author (and everyone else!) has the answer 🙂 This site’s the best!
Off to find the other books in the series now–thank you!
This thread makes me ridiculous levels of happy. Yay! Thank you, Christie, and happy reading to you, Priya!
“an epic rock star romance glom”
Priya, my friend, it sounds like you may have some fantastic recommendations for my personal catnip. Do you recall any favorite titles from said glom?
^^ Yes! What Dread Pirate Rachel said! Would love some recommendations from your epic foray into rock star romance. For some reason those rock stars just do it for me. I have enjoyed Kylie Scott’s series, even though some of the dialogue leaves me a little like “WTF, do people really talk like this anywhere ever?” But overall they are good rock star catnip. I keep hearing about Nalini Singh’s rock star series but have not tried it yet.
@DreadPirateRachel and @KB, have you read Come Dancing by Leslie Wells? Rock star hero, aspiring editor heroine, excellent setting, believable characters. I enjoyed it tremendously.
Olivia Cunning writes about 2 different rock bands: Sole Regret and Sinners (first book is Backstage Pass). Both series have some kink in them. The specific kink varies by character/book.
I like Nalini Singh’s Rock series but I thought Kylie Scott’s were better. (I love Lena and Jimmy. Yum, pie.)
I love all of the Rosemary Beach series by Abbi Glines. It’s not exactly rock romance but it centers around the adult kids of a rocker. Be sure to start with book one, Fallen Too Far. I am currently working on my own rock series, Assured Distraction that will be self published sometime in May!
Thanks, TF
@LML, I just downloaded Come Dancing–definitely interested in the 1980’s New York setting. Sounds cool and different from the usual. Thank you so much for all the recommendations!
Barbara Bretton’s Just Desserts is about a pastry chef single mom who gets involved with a Steven Tyler-like rocker and his large family of kids and ex-wives. It has a good romance too.
I wish I could be more helpful but my rock star glom was totally accidental and done in the space of a couple of weeks so a lot of the books just ran into one giant angst/young people/more angst/oh what? angst again/fight/song/end 🙂
I liked Kylie Scott’s Stage Dive series though I think the last one (Deep) is the weakest (the heroine was quite stalkerish). I think she’s doing a spinoff of another band now that all the original band members are paired off so there will be more? I read all 3 of Nalini Singh’s Rock series–if you like her writing (I do!), these are really similar (shocker, eh? 🙂 ). I actually liked her novella Rock Courtship the best and would really recommend it. The newest (Rock Hard) doesn’t have rock stars.
A lot of the rock star romances seem to have rather young protagonists (especially the heroines–including Kylie Scott’s) and I skimmed quite a few. I teach at uni and the thought of reading about angst and issues of people my students’ ages is a bit off-putting, unless it’s in a historical/SFF context! I think that’s why I liked Singh’s books. I started reading Abbi Glines but gave up when it was to be continued…(or so it seemed)
A couple of other authors whom I enjoyed: Samatha Towles The Storm series, esp Taming the Storm (the heroine is also a/the rock star) and Karina Bliss’ What the Librarian Did and Rise. I liked Zander of Rise–seemed a bit more rock star-y than many others I’ve listed here. I actually saw the ones I read as comfort reads, like Mills and Boons, as it were. None of the ones I liked do anything radically different with the genre (and that’s ok!) but are (mostly) well-written and with engaging people. I guess this means I missed all the genre-bending, rock-and-roll-ing books 🙂
Hey all, randomly jumping into this conversation because I saw “rock star” and went SQUEE! It seemed like only a few years ago that I was desperately searching for some good rock star romances, and now all of a sudden it’s like the book gods answered my prayers because there seem to be a lot of good series.
I agree with you Priya that sometimes the number of them in the NA genre can be a little off-putting – and I admit the ones that lean heavily into erotica tend to turn me off too, for some reason.
The first I read and liked pretty well was http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113789.Rock_Star this one by Roslyn Hardy Holcomb.
I also recently picked up the new one by Karina Bliss – the name is escaping me right now, but it was reviewed right here on SBTB 🙂
Now I’m totally off to put this vintage shop opening Canyon lady with rocker dude book on my TBR.