Title: Lead (Stage Dive, #3)
Author: Kylie Scott
Publication Date: July 29, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Synopsis
Stay up all night with the sexy rockers in Stage Dive, the epic rock star romance series from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott, author of Lick and Play. As the lead singer of Stage Dive, Jimmy is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants it, whether it's booze, drugs, or women. However, when a PR disaster serves as a wake-up call about his life and lands him in rehab, he finds himself with Lena, a new assistant to keep him out of trouble. Lena's not willing to take any crap from the sexy rocker and is determined to keep their relationship completely professional, despite their sizzling chemistry. But when Jimmy pushes her too far and Lena leaves, he realizes that he may just have lost the best thing that ever happened to him.Excerpt
“Lena, you seen my old black Led Zep shirt?” “Nope.” “You sure?” His brows became one dark cranky line. The scratches on his face were healing well, thank goodness. Though it didn’t reduce my desire to throttle his mother on a daily basis. “Yes. I haven’t seen it.” Can’t find it anywhere…” “And this is a surprise, how?” I slipped my hands into my back jean’s pockets. “Jimmy, you own more clothing than Cher, Brittney, and Elvis, put together. Things are bound to go missing.” “Sure you haven’t seen it?” “For goodness sake, what do you think, Jimmy? That I stole it to sleep in or something?” I laughed bitterly. Sure as hell, the truth deserved a good mocking. I’d sunk so despicably low. I hadn’t even meant to steal the stupid thing, but the shirt had been mixed up with my laundry a few days ago. It’d been the first top I laid my hand on after stepping out of the shower, ready to go to bed. Without thought, I’d put it on and it’d been so soft, the scent of him lingering beneath the laundry detergent. Every night since, I’d found myself in it come bedtime. My shame knew no limits. And no, I still hadn’t quit. The words still hadn’t come even close to leaving my mouth. He frowned. “No.” “That I have some deep secret longing to feel close to you resulting in my stealing your shirt like some creepy perv?” “Course I don’t fucking think that,” he replied crankily, reaching up to grip the top of the doorframe. All of his bulging muscles stretched the arms of his white T-shirt in the nicest way. It was all I could do not to start drooling, my heart beat taking up residence somewhere down between my thighs. And who could blame it? Not me. Maybe if I got laid, this would go away and things would return to normal. It’d seemed safer to avoid rubbing up against any men just in case I got carried away and started dating again. This new situation, however, changed everything. “Well, of course not! That would be crazy.” And wasn’t that the god’s honest truth? Cray-zeee. Lock me up and throw away the key because it wasn’t like I didn’t know better. “Just can’t figure out where the hell it could be.” Angels couldn’t have smiled as innocently. They might have tried, but they would have failed, the dirty-mouthed, winged, little liars. “Jimmy, I don’t know where it is. But I’ll look around for it later, okay?” “Yeah,” he said, and then added as an afterthought, “and stop looking at me weird.” “I’m not!”The Stage Dive series by Kylie Scott
Lick (Stage Dive #1)
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Play (Stage Dive #2)
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Lead (Stage Dive, #3)
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | B&N | iTunes
Coming January 6th, 2015
Deep (Stage Dive #4)
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About Kylie Scott
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Check out more of Kylie’s work
The Flesh series | Colonist’s Wife | Heart’s A Mess
My Review
I
went into reading Lead with the sure knowledge I would love it, since I always
love Kylie Scott’s books. On the other hand, when I left Jimmy behind in book
one, I wanted to slap his face. That gave me reservations, but I trusted the
author to fix it and I wasn’t disappointed. I’m not sure if anyone will ever be
able to replace Mal as my favorite, but Jimmy tried. He is definitely one
smoking hot lover. His dirty talking ways had me fanning my face and steaming
up my ereader. On with the review:
Lena
has a problem keeping jobs. Her tongue refuses to obey and gets her fired more
often than it should. Her rage over her sister’s betrayal and her latest job
loss, land her in the home of Jimmy Ferris as his sobriety companion. Picking
up at the end of book two, Jimmy is turned inside out by the loss of the woman
who was like a second mother to him after his real mother abandoned him as a
teenager. In his grief, his hard-nosed ways slip just long enough for Lena to
get a peek at his heart. She’s hooked. As Lena’s love grew and she dug her
heels in determined to strip away his walls, I was rooting for her all the way.
I still wanted to punch him in the face. His sticking up for her with her
sister went a long way toward winning me. By the time I got to see the man
behind his hardened mask, my heart was every bit as much of a mess as Lena’s.
Jimmy was simply devastating. This book was 10 times more heartfelt than its hilarious
predecessors, but every bit as wonderful. If I could give it 6 stars, I would.
My
favorite quotes:
‘”Stop
hanging around the door when I’m showering. That’s creepy.” I rolled my eyes.
It wasn’t like I could see anything through the keyhole. Let’s pretend I didn’t
try.”
“He
lay on his stomach, ribs working hard to give him back his breath. I’d done
that to him, me and my vagina. Go team.”
“My
mouth, I want to kill it slowly and painfully in many and varied ways.”
Lead
releases July 29th, if you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, why
are you still reading this?
**NetGalley Review**
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