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Emme Rollins

Autore di Meeting Trouble (Trouble, #1)

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female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Michigan, USA

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This is the first book in the Trouble series, but it reads like the first in a serial.
Sabrina and her best friend Katie are super excited to be seeing the mega-huge band Trouble in concert. Sabrina is completely obsessed with the leader singer, Rob, and the girls even have front row tickets. Unfortunately, they arrive at the concert venue late and can’t find a way inside. As they’re trying all the doors to get in, a door suddenly opens and hits Sabrina in the head.
Rob Burns and his lead guitarist Tyler are looking for the bathroom, but they wind up locked outside with two crazed fans. While Tyler is trying to find a way back in, Rob is making sure Sabrina’s okay, but she’s totally star struck. After the show, Rob and Sabrina meet up for a wild night and the most perfect day neither of them expected.
I loved this book, but I’m surprised there wasn’t a big focus on the band, it’s history, and the other band members (besides Rob and Tyler). Sabrina and Rob are great characters. They’re both kind, smart, considerate, and levelheaded. Their romance bloomed fast, but it felt believable. Most rock star romances I’ve read deal with drug and alcohol abuse, and lots of women. Rob plays music because he enjoys it—he’s not in it for the fame and money—and he’s clean. He’s also married, though separated from his wife, and he’s been having fun with groupies on the current tour. It takes the chance meeting with Sabrina, however, to really make him feel alive and happy again.
Since this story is told only in Sabrina’s POV (first person), the reader doesn’t really know what’s going on in Rob’s head. Though I liked Rob, I couldn’t connect with him as easily as I did Sabrina.
The sex scenes were really hot and sweaty, which is always a plus for me! There were some distracting typos and unanswered questions, however. There’s a HFN ending, but the big question remains: how will their relationship work since he’s famous and living in L.A., and she doesn’t want to leave her home and city? I normally don’t read serials because I don’t like cliffhangers, so I really wish this question had been answered.
4 Stars
… (altro)
 
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AmberDaulton | 4 altre recensioni | Nov 20, 2023 |
Sweet

The story of Annaleesa and Ric is sweet. They may have been raised together but they were by no means blood related.
 
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Diamond71Sapphire | 4 altre recensioni | Aug 12, 2022 |
This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review.

*This review can also be found on my blog Love at First Write*

This book was quite the quick read and REALLY enjoyable (which I needed after work haha). This was done in a couple of hours tops and I barely put it down to eat dinner! I read this so quickly that I didn't even get a chance to change my Goodreads status to 'currently-reading' before I had finished the book!

The main character of the book is Sara and she lives with her mother and stepfather in an apartment. This apartment just so happens to be the same complex that the new boy at her academy lives in. The guy, Dale Diamond, looks just like her idol, Rockstar Tyler Vincent, and she's captivated at first sight. Sara's family is poor, she's not allowed to date, and quite obviously there's abuse going on in the way she calls her stepfather the 'stepbeast'. Fantasizing about meeting Tyler Vincent, becoming friends, and escaping her life has been her goal since 14. Her bedroom is completely covered in his pictures and she draws him all the time (she's an amazing artist) and he's really become her obsession. Sara believes that Tyler Vincent, her idol, is perfect and will be her savior if only she can meet him.

Sara's best friend Aimee also has some very real problems. Aimee is anorexic and bulimic which I found a bit odd. I don’t really know anything about these personally, but starving oneself and then binge eating/puking just seems like an odd combination. Aimee has been Sara's friend for years and Sara seems to go starving from lack of food at school a lot (because she can’t afford the school food). Aimee knows this and eats in front of Sara only to puke it up again later. Like, if Aimee’s not going to eat the food anyways, why not just give it to Sara… Though I suppose it stems from an insecurity issue on Aimee’s part. My point of view probably sounds really judgmental and naive, but I've never been in that situation and really can't decide what to make of it.

With issues of their own (which I can’t get into without spoiling the whole plot), Dale makes Sara happy and they help each other through a lot. Reading their relationship grow and have its ups and downs was completely relatable and very well done. Especially all of the plot twists that I won't talk about because I don't want to spoil the book haha. But the truth just really brought everything down to earth and freed Sara. Her journal addressed to "Dear Rockstar" tied in nicely and the detail was great.

Though I will nit-pick here and say that in some circumstances the detail was a bit repetitive. As in, almost every time they had sex, Dale cumming inside of her was always a "white-hot burst". I mean, there are other ways to say the same thing, vary it up?

That brings me to my next topic, sex. It wasn't super descriptive or anything, but it was a spotlight of the book multiple times, and (Game of Thrones aside) not something I typically read. I don't mind sex in books, I just don't think it should be in YA because while I personally don't mind, thinking about kids reading this sickens me. I WILL praise the fact that these characters were older (out of high school at least) and were prepared for consequences. So kudos to you, Emme, for making quite the interesting book. I just think it should be strictly New Adult, not YA/NA.

So, all in all, a 4 star book that I'll be sure to re-read!
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Nikki_Sojkowski | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 26, 2021 |
Received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Oh Emme. I thought we were friends. You write these awesome books, I read them, I like them, it's a great relationship. And then you wrote this one. And those things happened. I refuse to name them here because I don't do spoilers. But you wrote the things and I read them and now we are fighting. I hope Trouble #3 mends our spat Emme because I don't like fighting with you.
 
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Stacie-C | May 8, 2021 |

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Opere
18
Utenti
325
Popolarità
#72,884
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
23
ISBN
15

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