Genre: Contemporary, Rock “n” Roll
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay
Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild
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About The Book
Rory Smith has been playing bass for Blinding Light since the beginning. Sure, he left a few times temporarily, but he’s always gone back to the only life he’s really known. It was all fun and games in his twenties, but lately he wonders if there’s something more out there besides traveling show to show.
Kai Marshall has always been a huge fan of Blinding Light, but the real reason he goes to every show he can sneak into is to get a glimpse of their hot bass player. Everyone else worshiped the lead singer Easy Rian. When they found out, he was out and proud, and in a relationship with the new guitar player, many hearts were broken. But not his. His heart only beats for Rory, the white-blonde haired rock god that he can’t get out of his head.
Rory’s played the rockstar game for many years. Not one time in all those years has he met anyone who made him feel the way the cute guy off to the side with the haunting blue eyes does. He’s always kept his heart of lockdown, but maybe it’s time for a jailbreak. His dreams have faded, but they’re not completely gone.
The Review
Rory Smith has been the bass for the band Blinding Light since it began, but something is missing in his life. When a food delivery arrives one night, Rory sees the delivery man and feels an instant connection.
Kai Marshall has just turned twenty-one and he loves Blinding Light, but has had a crush on Rory from the start. Kai has been helping his parents since his father’s business went into a nosedive. He does deliveries while attending college, with a dream of becoming a web designer. Seeing the man he has a strong attraction to is amazing, and he is now the legal age to attend bars where the band plays.
When another delivery brings the two men together again, Rory knows he wants their chance meetings to become more. Inviting Kai to one of the band’s performances proves to him that Kai could be an important addition to his life. Since their meeting, Rory has begun to write songs, something that he stopped after someone in his past hurt him. Now he can’t stop because he has found his muse.
Between work and school, Kai’s life is full, but he makes time to see the band – and Rory. All the band members take a liking to him and welcome him with open arms whenever he goes to a performance, backstage and always on the guest list. They has had no record company since they left the one they had. They record their own music, book their own performances and although most of them are not huge venues, they like not having to follow the studio’s orders: what to wear, how to act, where they must play and when. Now they will be performing at the largest venue – Rocktoberfest – in front of thousands of people.
Unfortunately, a man from Rory’s past reappears, and trouble is on the horizon. His notebook filled with songs goes missing, their performance studio gets trashed, and the entire band is waiting for the other shoe to drop. Through all the trouble, they need to be on top of their game for Rocktoberfest. Rory is in front of people every day, so he has kept the fact that he is gay out of the public eye. Only now he is falling for Kai, and keeping that secret will be difficult.
Other members of the band are openly gay and even display their feelings on stage for the world to see. Rory misses Kai when he isn’t around, and so far they have only kissed, which was sizzling. Now Rory wonders what having sex with Kai would be like. There’s an age difference – almost fifteen years – but I always say age is just a number.
The concert day finally arrives, and unlike so many other bands, Blinding Light uses trucks to move their equipment and stays in hotels, so a fancy tour bus is out of the question, but they don’t mind. Kai is there to watch the man he has fallen for on the huge stage. while thousands jump and scream, but all he sees is Rory. Who could ever imagine delivering food would change two men’s lives forever?
Another wonderful rock and roll story that I learned a lot from. I’m not a huge rock fan and still live in the fifties music world, but that doesn’t stop me from loving these books. Watching these up-and-coming bands as they prepare for the biggest concert of their lives is a joy and I would highly recommend not missing out on any of the books in this amazing series.
This is a multi-author series, and each is a standalone with each author’s personal touch on the rock and roll world.
Five stars.
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