Review: Wish-fulfillment rock romance
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
Rock it by Jennifer Chance, Publication Date: Mar 4, 2014I really should stop trying to read rock-god romances.  As much as I love music, aside from Lauren Dane's Brown Family novels I find all romance novel rock-gods just really just a bit too self-involved for me. Despite my childhood love for Menudo, I don't have a lot interest in a wish-fulfillment story where your teen-heartthrob obsession picks you out from the crowd instead of charging you with stalking discovers you are his true love.Lacey is  an up and coming junior-agent for international talent agency.  She was once also a mega-fan of Dante Falcone, a former teen heartthrob and now full-blown rock star. Dante, who is under a lot of pressure and tiring of being on the road, chooses Lacey, not her man-eater boss as his new interim tour manager. Lacey is caught between trying to hide her obsession for Dante, and showing-up her boss and wrecking her career.I didn't feel Dante and Lacey's attraction for each other was developed much beyond the physical, and I just didn't buy the wish fulfillment aspect of having Lacey's letters to Dante when she was a teen  among the few that he read and treasured,  proof of their special true love connection. The plot for this book just sort of unraveled for me at the end, when Lacey's friends were called in to help protect Lacey after her mega-fan status was uncovered by her boss, and they launch a viral internet hoax/marketing stunt and alternate persona for Lacey called Rocker Girrl.2 out 5 starsSource: NetGalley, review copy provided by Random House Publishing Group -- Loveswept.