Review: Dream, Rock, Love in Jennifer Chance’s ROCK IT
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
Disclosure: E-Galley provided by publisher via Netgalley for review purposes on my blog. This review is adapted from that.  No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.I’ve read what I call “rockerotica” by several authors. This doesn’t quite fall into the erotica slot; it’s more steamy new adult romance centered on the music industry.Characters: Lacey – not a wide-eyed ingenue, but a young woman who almost feels as if she’s playing “go to work” dress up and is not quite settled into the job she has taken.Dante Falcone – This young man has been built from a lot of different characters and several rockstars.Brenda, the Barracuda is Lacey’s boss. She’s a conniver on a good day and a dangerous conniver when things don’t go her way.  She’s drawn a bit too two dimensionally.Plot: Lacey’s company IMO  is an advertising agency/tour managing/talent managing company. Dante is a new client.  IMO is handling his new tour and building a sponsorship/social media/product juggernaut around it. Lacey is the junior agent on the account and has had a crush on the star since they were both adolescents.I can accept that Lacey has not outgrown her crush, but the book's timeline is a hard sell. You have to suspend disbelief on it.How they feel about each other, how she and he feel about her stalker-ish fandom, confused me, as does a scheme to spin pubic relations following an incident.The characters and story in this story are not as well developed as others I’ve read with a rock n’ roll setting. I felt it was tentative and pale in comparison; like a test run. There were a lot of details missing, and uncommitted to. I did however enjoy the writer’s voice and the way she used language.So, I am a bit mixed on this one. I felt it got better as I went along. It is definitely about NEW adults; people just starting out and not from a perspective of looking back from a more mature period. I found it a little younger-feeling than I enjoy If you have a love of rock and romance then this could be for you.