Never Fall in Love With A Rockstar
by Rachel Higginson
Releases June 25th
Blurb
My name is Clover
Calloway and I’ve lived two separate lives.
The first, I like
to call “my past.” I never talk about it. I try not to think about it. My
rockstar days of playing in one of the hottest bands on the planet are over.
Along with the most volatile, beautiful, tragic love story of all time.
Over the past
five years, I’ve settled into my second life. My “normal life.” The one where I
work a normal job, hang out with normal people and fall in love with a normal,
but wonderful guy. The life where I’m admittedly a little bored, but also safe.
My past wasn’t
boring. But my past broke my heart into a million, unfixable pieces. So, I’m
determined to keep it where it belongs—behind me.
And the man
responsible for the shattering of me? Malachi Porter, lead singer and
mastermind of Bright Tragedy, should stay there too. Far away from me and this
idyllic life I’ve carved out for myself.
But what happens
when my two lives collide?
When Malachi
comes crashing into my perfectly normal world, he threatens to destroy it,
promises to annihilate everything I’ve replaced him with.
He upends
everything I thought I wanted and forces me to question the reasons I left
Bright Tragedy all those years ago.
But I didn’t walk away five years ago, I ran. As fast as I could go. And while my heart is whispering that it’s different this time—that he’s different—my brain is screaming for me to run again.
Malachi Porter isn’t a normal guy. And he doesn’t belong in my “normal life.” But, nevertheless, he’s bound and determined to make a place for himself here.
I just hope my
heart can survive him, that we don’t burn into another bright
tragedy.
First, how fun is
this cover?!?! I appreciate the artistic beauty of it… no arty couple photo… no
half naked man… no close up on the abs. I love it! So unique and original. I’m always in serious awe of this author’s
abilities to give us truly different covers! I love when a person dares to
stand outside societies norms. The cover is definitely one of my favorites this
year!
I was surprised how
quickly I fell into Never Fall in Love with a Rockstar’s storyline. I immediately
liked Clover. I enjoyed being in her head as she played the piano. You can just
feel the passion. I liked Adam, Clover’s boyfriend. I felt for him as the story
developed. Sometimes I think people get so wrapped up in their current life and
just live without realizing they are missing passion. You can feel the current
between Kai and Clover almost immediately after reconnecting. Unlike Adam and
Clover, Clover has a deep passion with Kai. However, they have a difficult
past. One that is riddled with addiction, self medicating, with letting the
other down… it’s peppered with hurt feelings and lonely nights, a burden of one
carrying the responsibilities while one reaps the careless rewards.
So as you can see, we
have a mess… Rachel Higginson always creates a wonderful story with these
strong, yet, broken characters that I find myself loving and hating. Miss
Higginson wrote a story that may be a broken love story but underneath her
words she gets her reader looking deeper at their lives. I know I was left
thinking about my life, the choices I’ve made this far. NFILWAR also centers on
forgiveness. Is it easier to let go of those past hurts or hold onto them. What
does this do to you? It’s really a deep and meaningful storyline.
I
received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased
Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my
opinions are just that... my opinions.
EXCERPT:
Admittedly starting this song with him had been
rough, but once we’d found our rhythm, we couldn’t seem to slow down.
“That’s
so good,” he murmured, pressing heavier on me so I felt the warmth of him
everywhere.
“This
hope,” I continued, not knowing where I was going, but unable to stop. “This
hope. It’s in my head. It’s in our bed. It’s in all the words we’ve
left unsaid.”
left unsaid.”
His
sharp intake of breath chased a shiver down my spine. “Fucking hell, Clover.”
I smiled
at the keys, picking my way through the part again to see if I could get it
right. My fingers were clumsy, my breath quick and uneven. I hadn’t planned
that; it had just happened.
“This love,” he murmured to the tune I was
trying to recreate. “This love. It’s in my soul. It’s making me whole. It’s
better than it’s ever been before.”
My
fingers stilled, pausing in the middle of the note he was holding. The words
seemed ripped from the center of him, raw and rigid and still bleeding.
He
picked it up with his guitar, his head bent over the instrument as if he were
praying. “And I know… I know… if we let it breathe, it will take us to places
we’ve never been before.” The crescendo, cracking of his voice—but just
barely—as emotion joined the words that stole my heart all over again. “My joy.
Oh, be my joy… Let me love you like I never have before. Let me love you…
forevermore.” He chuckled as his perfect, talented fingers continued to pluck the
strings. “Or something like that.”
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