Stars: 2 / 5
Recommendation: Other than sex there was no connection between Heather and Jett, yet they end up having instant soul-mate feeling and fall in love all in a matter of two or three hot scenes. It’s a bit over the top and unbelievable for me with so many plot-lines misrepresented or incomplete. Definitely not gonna pick up this series again, and never a Hardt book either. **Sigh**
Misadventures with a Rock Star is the 12th novella in the Misadventures series, this one particularly written by Helen Hardt, one of the leading romance authors, originally published in June of 2018. In this book, sparks explode the instant rockstar Jett Draconis meets struggling writer Heather Myles. However a secret from his past and his bad boy behavior might impede in having a relationship with Heather. Jump into the erotic world facing the danger? Or sacrifice his heart?
Misadventures is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by a plethora of romance writers. The stories are scandalous, erotic and sexy. Each book has its own leading stars that take the readers through a sensual read giving them a page-turning romance. They touch the BDSM genre and leap into LGBTQ+ on occasion.
I was given this book by my dear friend, Patty, thinking that I would like this. I cant blame her cause I do read erotic romances with a paranormal edge to it. However, this book has so many things wrong and at places confusing that, throwing it across the wall was an act of bravery that I didn’t do. 😛
To begin with, the blurb on the back of the book reminded me of Rock Kiss series by Nalini Singh. I loved those books and yes they were all erotic romances slightly bordering on BDSM. So I assumed this book also would be as good as that. My mistake for judging the book by its blurb before I read it completely. 😦
Secondly, I feel the author is confused as to whether she should make this a BDSM book or an LGBTQ+ or just an erotic romance with threesome thrown in there. She has her heroine, Heather, staunchly denying that she isn’t into girls and doesn’t like being a groupie for any band. Yet more than once Heather is thrown in with girls in a threesome, all because she want to be with Jett for one more time. Who wants to have a girl go down on them so they can be with a guy? Total confusion.
Then we get to Jett Draconis, our hero of the tale. He is in a sort of indentured servitude with his benefactor who has a hold on him, thus denying him what he truly wants to be. And he hasn’t been able to get out of that for five years. Yet in the last two chapters the author wraps that up in a neat little bow and gives him his freedom. Couldn’t he have acted upon it earlier too? The end solution seems too quick with no fight seen which gives him his freedom.
Perhaps being a novella style, Hardt didn’t have enough pages to extend the fight and revenge against his benefactor. But, she did include unnecessary threesome scene at an after-party, again which Heather goes to despite being “not into girls”. She could have edited that and gave more meat to the past that Jett was trying to get rid off.
Also Hardt doesn’t explain the bomb hoaxes that Jett and his band face more than once while performing. Who was behind that? Why were they being created? What purpose was the bomb hoaxes added to the plot? That was completely unnecessary unless it was to prove that Jett created that diversion to get Heather into his bed. And that is not a true point either.
The repetitiveness of the characters lamenting bothers me a lot. Heather keeps on harping on to the fact that Jett has slept with every woman in L.A. and that she doesn’t want to be a notch on his bed post. And yet she wants to get into bed with him. And that he wouldn’t love her like she loves him, so just sleep with him once more. That doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
And then Jett also keeps harping on the fact that Heather is special and different. And that he cannot treat her like others. That he isn’t good enough for Heather and that she had more integrity in her than anyone he came across in L.A. It gets bored after a while to read the same thing again and again.
One thing was different was that the entire story is told in first person point of view, but here Hardt has individual chapters for Jett and Heather, each being told from their point respectively. So essentially you jump from one scene told by Heather and continue it into the next chapter being told by Jett. Interesting way of writing I found and that is what made me give 2 stars else it would have been 1 star.
Other than sex there was no connection between Heather and Jett, yet they end up having instant soul-mate feeling and fall in love all in a matter of two or three hot scenes. It’s a bit over the top and unbelievable for me with so many plot-lines misrepresented or incomplete. Definitely not gonna pick up this series again, and never a Hardt book either. **Sigh**
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Book Trivia and Plot Reveals:
- Members of Jett’s band, Emerald Phoenix: Zane Michaels aka Zebulon Frankfurter, the keyboardist; Lars, Jett’s driver; Tony, another band member.
- Jett’s family: his original name is Jeremy Gustafson; Tyler, brother; Eden Gustafson, his mother.
- Other people in the story: Susie, Heather’s roommate; Laney Taylor, a TV producer; Lindy & Janet, band groupies; Alicia Hopkins, Jett’s band’s benefactor; Fra O’Hara, Tyler’s attorney.
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