DISCLAIMER! This ARC was given to me through NetGalley in return for a fair and unbiased review.
WARNING. This will be a fairly spoilery review, because I’m sick with a cold and can’t be bothered to find a non-spoilery way of describing the plot.
Molly Harper is a shy and timid librarian present at a glamorous celebrity party because her older half-sister is a hot shot publicist. Present at the party are the members of Schoolboy Choir, one of the hottest rock bands in the world right now. Zachary Fox, the lead singer, has apparently fallen madly for Molly, having seen her from across the room and when she leaves, he follows, propositioning her in the lift. Molly, despite having a number of psychological issues from her teenage years and who’s still a virgin, decides to take Fox home for a steamy one night stand.
Fox pretty much immediately decides that Molly is the woman for him and he is ready to settle down now. As Molly has a number of trust issues and is worried about commitment, he decides not to tell her that it took him about 48 hours to decide she was his soul mate. It takes about two weeks of passionate smexy times before Molly realises that the rock god who has women throwing themselves at him all the time is the right guy for her. They move to LA together. They keep having awesome sex. Molly tells Fox about her creepy cheating scumbag of a dad and her alcoholic mother and he helps her deal with her trust issues. There’s some complications involving the paparazzi and constantly being in the spotlight. They work past it. More on my blog.
I checked out Slave to Sensation (her breakout novel) based on rave reviews and found it unreadable (and that’s saying something, I almost never not finish a book once started). She’s hugely prolific and frequently shows up on “best of” lists but the kindest thing I can say is that it’s not for me. Like you I’m looking for some buildup and obstacles. Instalove + smexy times = no drama.
Quibble about cover art: you don’t see many shirtless rock gods these days. Was channel surfing the other day and watched part of The Lost Boys and this guy will never not be funny to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmbt1RjPn4M
I actually really like Singh’s Guild Hunter series, although I found the first few Psy Changeling books pretty hard to get into, especially Slave to Sensation, which I think was her first book ever. Her writing has improved massively since then.
When this popped up on NetGalley, I figured I’d give it a try. My next review is the novella following this book, about Molly’s sister and one of the other members of the band. It is pretty much everything I wanted this book to be, so I’m not actually going to complain about her writing too much.