READ-2-REVIEW - Starfish: A Rock Star Romance by Lisa Becker

Starfish: A Rock Star Romance

by Lisa Becker

• Publication Date: May 21st 2019

5 STAR CONTEMPORARY ROCK STAR ROMANCE

"This book has "solid beach read" written all over it." The Blabbing Bibliophile


"I found the story to be sweet and entertaining as well as funny and suspenseful at times. And when you learn why it's called Starfish you will be smiling with me." I Scream Books Blog


"This book has all the feels. Made me laugh, made me cry, made me want to tour with Kings Quarters." Of Texts and Books


"The chemistry between the hero and heroine sizzles with lots of heat from every page." InD'tale Magazine



BLURB

Ambitious graduate Marin Collins accepts a four-month internship at a prestigious public relations firm to work on a tech account, but her plans are derailed when she’s assigned to go on the road with touring rock band Kings Quarters, hailed by Rolling Stone as the next big thing.  

Enter Brad Osterhauser, the reluctant rock star who would rather be coding computer games than penning Grammy-nominated songs.

Traveling by bus, city to city with a group of practical joking bandmates and a greedy manager, Marin and Brad forge a friendship and forbidden romance over a shared love of Seinfeld episodes, stolen moments and Red Vines. 

But when Marin’s accused of betraying her company and the band, will Brad come to her defense or believe she was disloyal to him for the sake of her career?  

Told in alternating perspectives of Marin and Brad, Starfish is a contemporary romance of unexpected love, the redemptive power of music and hogging the bed.

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . STARFISH: A Rockstar Romance . . . Marin Colins finds that she signed up for one thing and was in for a whole other kind of ride. Through it all she may or may not end up with a real true friend.

More coming. . . 

Author Info
Lisa Becker is an award-winning romance writer who spends her time like she spends her money - on books and margaritas. As Lisa’s grandmother used to say, “For every chair, there’s a tush.” Lisa is now happily married to a wonderful man she met online and lives in Manhattan Beach, California with him and their two daughters. So, if it happened for her, there’s hope for anyone! You can share your love stories with her at www.lisawbecker.com.

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Oshun Rising
Trinity Forest Series, #2
by  Jennifer Alsever
Narrator: Moira Todd
Publisher: Sawatch Publishing
Released: May 30th 2018
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . OSHUN RISING (Trinity Forest, #2) . . . You have just gotta read/listen to book one of this series. You will enjoy the follow up so much more. There are things that you just need to know, may want to experience, and just to save your sanity later on. 
I may be just a bit bias. I loved book one. I loved book two just as much. This was truly and epic step in to the Trinity Forest. You will want to know all that you can to have yourself prepared for what will be coming to you. 
Come join the Trinity Forest journey. Its full of deep characters with layers, rich world building for the forest, life, sorrow, pain, sadness, truth. I unwilling to give up too much but you will find that Ember, Oshun, Maddie, Jarod, Tre and more will have an impact on you and how you will look at the YA genre. 
Narration was very much a complement to the coming of age, coming to terms young adult read that shows there are many ways to interpret things in life. The tones, pitch, and cadence helps to enforce much of the current running through this story. 

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Audiobookworm Promotions on behalf of various authors, narrators, and publishers. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

OSHUN has everything a young pop star could ever want—fame, fortune, and beauty to spare. But there’s something dark inside of her, rising like the tide, fighting to be heard. Something that terrifies her. Because once she lets it out, she knows there’s no going back. 

EMBER is drowning. Fighting for consciousness, struggling to make sense of the strange dreams she’s been having—prophecies of murder, deception, and blackmail. But once she begins to untangle them, she realizes that they might not be dreams at all…and if she doesn’t find a way to stop what she’s seeing, more people will die. 

MADDIE is barely staying afloat. How can she be expected to care about school when her best friend Ember is still missing, presumed dead? So when Ember’s brother calls and tells her about his theory about a pop star who may be involved in Ember’s disappearance, she rallies him to take a road trip to check it out.

 

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Vengeance
Darkhurst, #2
by Gail Z. Martin
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: August 31st 2018

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . VENGEANCE (Darkhurst, #2) . . . Dig in for a very action filled ride. The Valmonde brothers have much on their plate and much riding behind them. This was truly a journey with magic, action, fantasy.
In this city-state of Ravenwood what you dont' see can kill, but its those you see that could and would create the deeper danger.  These blood magic, monsters, princes, power-hunger-individuals, brothers, friends, and more all find that there are things that are much more darker than what you see or what you thought you saw.
The adventure in to vengeance was full of action around each corner. This was on that would not be rushed. The way it pulled you in to this well carfted world was just amazing. The was enteratining to the mind, the senses fully engaged with the audio.
Narration was full, rich, and kept up with the ebb and flow of the action, drama, intensity, and the bit of mystery behind much of the goings on. This was a listen meant to be savored. 
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Fighting the monsters that killed their family and friends cost undertaker brothers Corran and Rigan Valmonde their home and livelihood and made them wanted men-but the worst is yet to come. The city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant Princes and Guild Masters wager fortunes to outmaneuver League rivals for the king's favor and the best trading terms. Ambitious and ruthless leaders use betrayal and assassination to gain their ends. Blood magic conjures monsters to further the goals of the ruling class, and the price of stolen power is paid for by the deaths of commoners. Now, the fate of Ravenwood hangs in the balance as rival city-states maneuver to gain advantage. When Corran and Rigan and their friends became outlaw monster hunters and fled beyond the walls of Ravenwood City, they thought they had defeated the source of the abominations that killed so many of their friends and loved ones. But the more successful they become at destroying the creatures, the more they realize a greater evil is at work-larger and more monstrous than they ever could imagine . . .

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The Cowboy's Baby Goes to Heaven
The Cowboy's Baby, #2
by Gretchen Rix
Narrated by: Carol Herman
Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: March 17th 2017
Publisher: Gretchen Rix

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . THE COWBOY'S BABY GOES TO HEAVEN (The Cowboy's Baby, #2) . . . I just could not make the connection with the characters that I wanted to have with a read that I really enjoy. This on my reader scale was just okay. The one thing that I did love was the animals. I recall Cowboy's Baby from the first installment of this series. It was interesting seeing more of the other characters that were briefly seen or talked about in book one, but there was still no connection for me to the story or the characters out side of a prized bull. 

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Former diplomat Leona Robin wonders if she made a mistake moving to rural Texas. Her son loves it here, but in a place where it's normal for a prize bull to have his own pet pig and hay bales are raining from the sky, Leona wonders how she'll ever fit in. That is, until she's thrown right into local preacher Ralph Maybeath's arms.  Is this love? Maybe, maybe not. Ralph is being coached by a six-year-old orphan called little Leon who is trying to make the three of them into an instant family using fairy tales as his inspiration. Want to bet his youngish, not-even-a-little-bit-dead granny will have a lot to say about this when she finds out?  While little Leon conspires back in Texas, the newlywed owners of the Sleeping Beauty Ranch transport their prize bull, Baby, to greener pastures up north, with Baby misbehaving every step of the way. The ranch owners are also saddled with a rodeo cowboy and a nosy reporter who seem like the perfect match--if they can ever get past last year's internet scandal involving some naked pictures and a pink port-a-potty.  THE COWBOY'S BABY GOES TO HEAVEN, the second in The Cowboy's Baby series, is a story about taking chances, seeing people for who they are, and one very, very stubborn bull.

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Lost in the Light

The Dori Orihuela Series

by Mary Castillo

Narrator: Mary Castillo

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Publisher: Reina Books

Released: January 26^th 2017

Genre: Paranormal Mystery

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . LOST IN THE LIGHT (the Dori Orhuela series) . . .  I very much enjoyed getting know know Detective Dori Orihuela and Vicente. Never mind the fact that Vicente is a ghost from the 1930s era. He was the key and the murdered subject. Dori was the detective needed to find all the clues and solve a murder that no one really knew took place, or did they. The paranormal aspect of this was the intrigue. The ghost that worked to solve his own murder. The memories that we sorted through. The things pieced together to show just how deceptive, deceitful, petty, and horrific the human can be. 
The history of the story brought things to a more real state. Things felt more genuine. 
We have the benefit of this author also being the narrator of the story. That for me was a mixed bag of what will I get. I was pleasantly surprised that this was a very good narration from Mary. She gave the story some extra authenticity and realism with her narration. She of course wrote the story, so who else could know what was going on while it was being written and what it was to portray at what times. This brought the levels of the read up in standards. 
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One October morning in 1932, Vicente Sorolla entered the white house on the hill and was never seen again.

Now, Detective Dori Orihuela witnesses his brutal murder in her nightmares.

Drawn to this tough but tender woman, Vicente materializes out of the butler's pantry and asks her to find his lost love, Anna. Dori wonders if she's not only about to lose her badge, but also her sanity.

Dori has always been drawn to the mysterious Queen Anne Edwardian house in her hometown. But after a devastating injury that puts her career on the line, Dori isn't sure if she made the right decision purchasing this rundown old mansion. Her wisecracking Grammy Cena has waited too long for her independent granddaughter to return home. She hires a kooky psychic to banish the ghost and a handsome contractor with whom Dori has an unhappy past. With a promise to Vicente, Dori may solve a forgotten Prohibition era murder. Or she may exhume secrets someone died to protect.

A modern gothic mystery woven with suspense, ghosts, and romance, Lost in the Light was nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Paranormal Mystery/Suspense. Fans of Susanna Kearsley, Simone St. James, Diana Gabaldon, Mary Stewart, Kate Morton, and Victoria Holt will want to curl up with Dori on her journey to love, past and present.

  

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