Review: Insta-Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
I've read a previous novel by this author that featured an alpha male. Her writing in that book reminded me of Kristen Ashley. This book was totally different. It features a jaded rock star Jax and a sweet homely girl Lacey.Jax was in a rock band with his brother from an early age and gained the tag 'The Eternal Teenager'. His life fell apart when his brother died, Jax turned to drink and drugs and tried to kill himself. After treatment, he is sent to live with his Grandma Edie (a great character).Although Jax is 26, he is quite boy like. He is definitely not an alpha male. I was a little disappointed in this at first but then the author wrote Jax so well and explained his background that it made sense that he was an immature 26 year old due to the life he had led with the band. Jax is also sexually immature. He has never taken his time to 'get a woman off'. He was too used to groupies who would just 'got him off'! I wasn't entirely convinced by this scenario but I suppose it could happen if you start having sex at an early age with groupies!One day when he is out running he is busy looking out for the girl he sees every morning sat on her porch and he trips and literally falls at her feet. She helps him and from that moment on it is insta-love. I don't like insta-love in novels. The relationship between Jax and Lacey moves at an alarming rate! In less than a week they are professing their love and are acting like an old married couple!The story is far from perfect but it kept me interested. I felt Lacey had a bit of a personality change at certain times in the book. I felt the 'fall out' could have been written better and that the 'make up' took a bit too long considering in the timeline of the book their whole relationship had lasted 3 weeks! If the author had taken out the insta-love part and written it with a different pace so that their relationship was slow and had lasted longer, I would have been more convinced of their love and how hurt Lacey was with what happened.That said, I did enjoy this book. It reminded me more of a YA/NA novel than an adult novel but I loved Jax and Lacey and his Gramps and all the other characters.