Laura’s Review of Lick (Stage Dive, #1) by Kylie Scott

If you loved Thoughtless (Thoughtless, #1) by S.C. Stephens, Music of the Heart (Runaway Train, #1) by Katie Ashley, and Rock the Heart (Black Falcon, #1) by Michelle A. Valentine then you are going to LOVE this book!!!

Basic Summary

         

Waking up in Vegas was never meant to be like this.

                Evelyn Thomas’s plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vega were big.  Huge.  But she sure as hell never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man, and he a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong.  Now if she could just remember how it all happened. 

                One thing is for certain, being married to rock and roll’s favorite son is sure to be a wild ride.

What I Loved

                The premise of this story is awesome; the beginning really sucks you into this book immediately.  I can’t imagine what I would do if I woke up on the bathroom floor not remembering the night before and married to some rock star.  When it comes to rock star romances this plot definitely makes this book standalone from the others because it’s pretty original.  I really appreciate that because there are tons of books that fit into this genre but don’t have anything unique to offer readers, this book though is different and because of that it’s a breath of fresh air. 

                I love me some hot rock stars and David Ferris is definitely BLAZING!!!!!  Thank you so much Kylie Scott for creating such an awesome cast of characters, especially David Ferris.  Not only is he hot, he’s talented, caring, and great in bed.  What more could you ask for?  I really loved David, and I feel like the character development when it came to him was right on.  You can totally understand and relate to where someone like him is coming from.  From the very beginning his anger is palpable when he discovers that Evelyn can’t remember marrying him the night before, and you just immediately want to hug him and be the shoulder he can cry on.  At times he’s a tough nut to crack but that who wants someone that’s easy to figure out?  That would make for a boring story and this story was definitely NOT boring.   

Not So Much

      

           Since this is probably about the 5^th or 6^th book I’ve read by an Aussie writer I’m beginning to see that I am not a huge fan of the way they write books.  That’s not an insult to the way they write, I’m just realizing that being an American reading this book there is something about the writing that I have a hard time stepping out of my comfort zone of what I know and understanding that some Authors might write books differently.  For example, I felt like they were a lot of fragmented sentences and sometimes they just didn't make sense to me because they either were totally random and didn't pertain to that paragraph or the they were written was hard for me to figure out. 

                Also Kylie Scott lives in Australian which is awesome I love that country, but it was pretty clear to me that she didn't really know Oregon or California that well.  There was nothing specific about the areas these characters lived in that lead me to believe the setting was really well known.  Nothing specific is every mentioned about LA, at one point the band is playing in a hotel and there is no mention of what hotel it could’ve been.  There are tons of hotels in LA that have huge theaters and giving us a name of one would have been great because then I would feel like these characters were really in Los Angeles.  Again when Evelyn was in Portland no specific streets are mentioned, neighborhoods, sections of town; nothing.  I love it when the details of the cities around them are included in the story it makes the story better-rounded and the plot more believable. 

                Another pet peeve I have when authors write books that take place in America but don’t use the correct sayings.  The colloquialisms in this book very not American at all and there were times that I had to remind myself that this book too place in the United States because the words were just not what Americans would use to describe things.  At one point in the book they are in a house that a huge living room, and the whole time the room is called a lounge, no one in America uses lounge to describe a room; living room, family room, den maybe but lounges here are quaint bars not a room in a house. 

To Sum it this all up!

          I really liked this book a lot; there were some really great plot twists that made me keep reading.  There were points when I just couldn't put this book down and was pissed I had errands to run because that meant I had to stop reading. I can’t wait to read the rest of this series and see what hi-jinks the rest of the band members get into and see how they find their own loves. 

                The details were lacking at times in the book, I wish there were more descriptions when it came to Ev’s apartment, or David’s house in Monterey. I like to have details of the background environment because it makes it easier for me to grasp onto what is going on around these characters.  The realities of being famous are pretty obvious in this book which I really liked because it didn't gloss over the constant harassment famous people get and the probes into their private lives.  I like Evelyn a lot because she was a very down to earth kind of girl, at time she was a little too wide eyed innocent for my liking but she was still someone relatable and real.  The premise of this book was great; it almost makes me want to go to Vegas and get black out drunk so I can wake up with a huge Cartier rock on my finger!