Review: Bad Boy Rock Star
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2013
After growing up rich and lacking nothing, Hannah Sorrento suddenly finds herself with nothing but her designer clothes and barely enough money for rent at a cheap pay-by-the-week room.  Her father is nowhere to be found and all she has left is the failing Megastar Promotions business that her father had put in her name.  Hannah's only hope is to begin managing the band Storm, who thinks she and the company are a joke.  Jack Colt, the leader of the band and an enigma in himself grates on her last nerve, yet his touch sets her on fire.  He’s mysterious, moody, a man-whore, and comes across as mean, but also lets a really caring side emerge from time-to-time, which confuses Hannah.  Making sacrifices she never thought she could and doing things she never thought she would, Hannah finds herself actually wanting to do a good job for the band and has found a good friend in Eric, one of the other band members, and with Angie, a band groupie who becomes her best friend and without whose help with managing the band, she wouldn’t make it.  Hannah’s father has always told her that she has to be stronger than anyone else, which is the one constant that keeps her going.  When the press gets wind of where Hannah is and has a heyday dragging her through the mud along with her father, the truth of what he's done is devastating.  Hannah faces losing everything she’s worked hard to achieve, all her hopes are threatened, and she faces losing what little she has left, possibly even the band, her new friends, and Jack Colt.When I first started reading the book, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it or not.  I didn’t care for Hannah in the beginning, but as the book progressed, I began to like her more.  She came across as the spoiled princess that she was in the beginning, but then began to transform into a hardworking and caring person as the story unfolded.  Jack Colt is hot for sure, but he didn’t win me over like most bad boys do.  I just didn’t like him or connect with him much, though he to began to grow on me by the end.  He was a mean jerk one minute, then did something totally nice for Hannah the next, but was hot and cold without a lot of explanation as to why.  I think that was because we only saw him from Hannah’s perspective and weren’t really privy to anything to anything that was going on in his head.  His background was a bit of a mystery, and there wasn’t a lot of depth to his character yet, but the stage was set by the end of the book for that to be established in the next book.  That brings us to the ending, which was really abrupt and a cliffhanger, kind of leaving you feeling like surely you are missing a page or something, but nevertheless, leaves you wanting to read the next book to find out what happens.  Overall, while the book didn’t blow me away, I did end up enjoying Bad Boy Rock Star and will definitely be reading the next book in the series to see where things go from here.  The storyline itself is very interesting and has a lot of potential, and I hope to see the character building and connection with the characters intensify as the story progresses.  I’ll be looking forward to the next book in the series, Rock Star versus Millionaire.