Revelry by Carmen Jenner

Cooper Ryan is living the dream. Between the parties with rock royalty, booze, groupies and performing to crowds of thousands with his band Taint, life seems pretty sweet. There’s just one thing missing: the feisty little red-head that took his baby and ran off with his heart. Throwing himself into music is the only thing keeping him sane.

Until a run-in with a nonplussed, package-wielding PA throws everything off balance.

Ali Jones is having a craptastic life. Her grandmother died, leaving her homeless, penniless, and alone, and her boyfriend left her for a tramp who takes her clothes off for money. That’s why when she lands her dream job at a record company it seems like it’s too good to be true.

Because it is.

Slapped with an ultimatum, Ali must decide if facing the horror of the unemployment line is a fate worse than going on the road with four rowdy rockers hell-bent on making her life misery.

He’s adored by millions.

She’s not even loved by her cat.

Can they ignore their hatred long enough to survive the tour from hell? Or will their chemistry force everything to come crashing down around them?

Flirty, funny, dirty, raunchy, sexy.

Close your eyes and picture your most stereotypical rock band. 

Can you see it?

Hot, sexy men. 

The quiet one, the outspoken one, the slut.

Groupies, drugs, booze, parties, sex, sex, sex.

Add in a heavy dose of raunch, a red kitty and some buried feelings of hurt and rejection and you’ve got yourself Revelry.

If I had to compare to other books I’ve read, just to give you an idea.. I’d say a cross between Backstage Pass and Strings! Some scenes may cause you to cringe and to some, probably warrant a warning. 

"the universe is a cock-sucking bitch that needs to choke on a rotten whale's vagina"

I was really enjoying the story from the beginning. The band mates have an awesome camaraderie and there's tons of funny throughout. Unfortunately at a certain point, things take a bit of a turn that I just didn't understand. Things also turn a bit crass and crude, still keeping heavy on the funny, but some of it just turned me off.

I kept an open mind and continued reading, although I didn't agree with what was happening, in the end I got what I wanted and finally understood the method to the madness.

"strange how you can be adored by millions and yet completely alone all at the same time."

I'm bracing myself for more of the raunchy, crudeness.. because I want to know more about these guys! Who's up next? Bring on the next member of Taint!

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Broken Pieces (Broken Pieces #1) by Riley Hart

Can three broken pieces make a whole?

Josiah Evans is the orphan who lost both his parents. He’s sweet, shy, and all heart. He wants nothing more than to be loved.

Mateo Sanchez is the son of a gang leader. He’s seen it all, and never hesitates to do what needs to be done, no matter what it is.

Tristan Croft is the wealthy attorney who clawed his way up from the bottom to rule his own world. He’ll never depend on anyone but himself again.

Three men who couldn’t be more different…and yet, as their lives intersect they find an uncommon balance that calms the storms inside each of them, and ignites fires hotter than they ever thought imaginable.

Told uniquely in three parts and spanning over ten years, BROKEN PIECES is a journey of healing for three fragmented souls, finding love in the unlikeliest of places—

with each other.

"Maybe most things, the important things, don't really have to make sense. Maybe they just are"

Truly amazing read! I went through an array of emotions while reading this that it was overwhelming. 

I cried and I hurt, over and over. 

There was such sweetness, passion, love, pain and beauty!

Fantastic job Riley Hart!

"Emotions don't play by rules. That's what makes them so incredible."

Let me say that I sometimes find it hard to read menage books. When it's happening for fun, it's fine, I get it... but when it comes to matters of the heart, it makes me feel weird. It makes me cringe.

I don't know how to explain it. 

 This book had me feeling so much love, then came a point that I was also confused. How can you be in love with two people at once? How can you give yourself to two people at once? 

I didn't understand what was happening, I was sad and angry....but then it clicked. I got it. I figured it out. It all made sense.

"Nothing in this world was completely black and white. Right or wrong."

"We might be broken in so many ways, but together, we're whole."

Broken Pieces really surprised me. It wasn't what I was expecting. It was so much more, and it was amazing! A truly beautiful love story.

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