Review: Dead Impressed!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2012
What happens when an older rocker is fed up with all the fawning and adulation?  What develops when a girl pours all of herself into a world-traveling job?  And what are the affects between these two disparate people when they are unexpectedly thrown together?I felt like I more than received my money's worth at only $.99 with "Blindsided".  Sayer Adams has created a world that I got lost in, lead by a world-weary rocker and a regular-gal-with-issues love interest.  While the cover art and description leans towards a YA novel (which I'm not against), this is definitely an adult novel that sparks your interest from the first chapter.  I found myself engrossed in the story of Nate and Chelsea and their burgeoning like-into-love relationship. Complicated by their own inner demons, it's their separate determination and hope that they will overcome the insecurities and darkness that makes this book a winner.The writing was first rate with a great balance of back story, pacing, setting graphics and internal monologues which gave me a real sense of how and why the main characters were drawn together.  The physical scenes were extremely well written and devised to entice the reader--okay, they were HOT--but with all the limbs accounted for and in the right places.  There were few grammatical errors or misspellings (which didn't, for once, interrupt the flow of my reading) and the storyline rarely missed it's mark.My only disappointment was with the side characters which I think could have been expounded on a bit more.  Tony and Jen's story was not deep enough for me to root for their happiness.  I felt Annabelle could have been expanded as well to explain why she was so hard on Chelsea. Perhaps, with a back story defining her issues would have found me more empathetic. I was wanting to read of Maddy and Bill. And Sean deserves his own book to help him discover himself and his own love--much like Nate received in "Blindsided".Overall Rating:  (out of 10)  A solid 9Heat Level:  (out of 10)  A solid 11Would I Want to Read this Author Again:  Definite YES!Would I Recommend:  (out of 10)  A Definite 15