4.5 Rockin Stars!!!!Indy Savage has been in love with her best friends brother, Lee, since she was five years old. Indy tried for years to get Lees attention, but you can only be rejected so many times. Indy is now 30, and the last 10 years or so, she has ignored Lee. Its just easier that way. She sees him at family events etc, but overall, she doesnt spend time with him. A crazy night at her bookshop lands her delivered right to his door. With her friend and barista, Rosie, Indy gets shot at. Rosie is in some trouble with some bad people. Indys bff, Ally, thinks its best they go to her brother Lees house, Lee isnt home. Lee comes home early. And finds Indy in his bed. He has a special job, and he is willing to help Indy and Rosie... for a price...I do this thing for Rosie, you sleep with me"I stared at him, open-mouthed and in stunned silence.I did, of course, understand what he meant but he explained further."Not like last night, we'll both be naked and sexual acts will be performed."My expression didn't change except maybe my mouth opened wider."I'll expect your participation."Holy shit."Your avid participation."Dear Lord in Heaven.Eventually, I whispered, "You must be joking."He shook his head and watched me.I dropped my eyes, unable to hold his stare."I think I need more coffee,"Lee knows what he wants. He wants Indy. He has wanted Indy for a long time. He had his reasons for pushing her away when they were younger, but now, this thing between them is happening. It takes a minute for them to get together, but when they do...Jesus," he buried his face in my neck. "There's nothin' better in the world than hearing you say my name when I'm inside you." He slid in deeper, filling me. "I've been waiting years to be right here. Indy gets into all kinds of trouble in this book. Getting kidnapped multiple times, using the stun gun often, and just being feisty and lol hilarious- she seriously cracked me up. She is one of the most fun and mischievous heroines Ive ever read about. Indy and Ally together are even more of a hoot. She doesnt take crap from anyone, even Lee.Liam Lee Nightingale is all kinds of hot, sexy, and alpha male. I wouldnt expect anything less from KA. He is a bad ass. Possessive in the best way. Lee, youre gonna have to get over this jealous-possessiveness thing.Indy, youre gonna have to get used to the fact that Im the jealous-possessive type. I just loved the two of them together. Even though Indy tried to fight it at first, they just fit together. Hes good at this stuff.What stuff?Relationship stuff. Hes a natural. Its weird, were new and were old. I cant get my head around it.Hes shit at relationship stuff. Hes only good at it because its you.Sorry?Youre shit at it too, but only because it was never him. Indy and Lee were awesome, but holy hell there was a whole ensemble of FANTASTIC supporting characters! I am stoked for the rest of this series after meeting all these wonderfully unique and fun people. My absolute favorite was Tex. I hope he makes some cameos in the rest of the books because he was straight up awesome! Eddie, Ally, Hank, and many, many more great characters! This was a great read, not my favorite KA book, but I still loved it! There was a TON of action, some mild suspense, romance, steam, humor and just straight up KA goodness. There were no boring parts, it was a fast paced book that didnt drag at all. I am very much looking forward to continuing the Rock Chick series, especially since I know Eddies book is next!

The Rock Chick series Buddy Read with some fellow hard core KA fans at Buddies Books and BaublesAfter a binge of emotional KA reads this is exactly the shift I needed. Yes at times it is ridiculous and over the top but I was having so much fun that I didnt care at all and it made it even that more enjoyable.First there arent a lot of books out there where there are a great girl friendships happening but KA does better than most. Indy and Ally have been friends forever, they are practically sisters and if Ally had her way they would be sisters by marriage but her stupid brothers didnt fall into that trap just yet. I love the girl friendship and banter between these two and how much trouble they got in together. Yeah sure it is a little out there at times but I love how much they would do to protect the other.Second there is just Indy on her own. She is still a wild child even though she is about thirty now and she has a very peculiar way of looking at the world. It is so entertaining and laugh out loud funny that I cant pick out which of her crazy freak-outs or commentary were the funniest.Late? We cant be late! Dad loves you, Lee, but hes not exactly jumping for joy that were together. We cant be late the first time we go home for a barbeque!Lees face changed and his eyes became warm. Are we together?Oh crap. I started thinking fast. Were not not together.Im not entirely certain what to do with that. I explained, Were not exactly together and were not not together. Were in together limbo. Were test driving together to see if we want to buy it.And Theyre on a Lee and Indy Sex Watch. Come again? They want to know when weve done it. Silence. I went on, If we dont do it soon, they might force us to at gunpoint. Christ. I know. No pressure though. I told them were taking it slow.You have to report in? he asked. I kind of feel obliged, I admitted. Hows that? I didnt want to tell him Id recruited them both for Lee Maneuvers in the past, so I said, Never mind.Or.Let me get this straight, he said, and I could tell he was laughing. You dragged Eddie to Walgreens to help pick out condoms for me? Well, I didnt know! Im not the kind of girl who keeps condoms around. Thats the guys job and you said we were gonna have to use different precautions.Did you tell Eddie the part about long-lasting reliability?Seriously she is a hoot and mix in a drag queen neighbor, Vietnam Vet, a car chase, a few kidnappings, a bag of diamonds and a creepy drug pin and what else do you need for a good time.Then there is Lee Nightingale, FINALLY we meet. In all the other KA reading Ive done in the last three months he has popped up quite a few places with cameos. So I was so excited to meet him. Sure he is a KA alpha which means bossy, arrogant, hot, sexy, pushy, fantastic in bed etc. you get the picture. But that also means that he gets moments of being sweet. What I really love about Indy and Lee is that they are so different the fit together perfectly. He is planning, control and protection while Indy is Calamity, chaos and affection (in a good way). Together they totally make sense and I loved that she had known him since childhood it made their romantic relationship even better.General KA disclaimer - I seriously feel like I have to give this to every one of her series that I love. It doesnt make sense, either you are going to love the OOT craziness of it or you are going to hate everything about this book. I seem to almost always fall on the side of love with KA but she is just my kind of crazy it seems.

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/2.5 StarsIndy has been in love with her best friends brother Lee ever since she was a wee little girl. When she was a teenager she threw herself at him (pretty much literally) for the last time. Thats when he told her she was like a sister to him. For the past decade, Indy has avoided Lee as much possible, but has never fully been able to due to their families' combined celebrations of birthdays/holidays/generic Sunday backyard BBQs, etc. When Indy finds herself in a real pickle featuring one of her employees (who just happens to be everyone in towns favorite coffee guru) and a bag of diamonds, Lee plants himself firmly in her life. She also finds out when it comes to how he used to only view her in a sisterly manner, that . . . . That was then, this is now. This had soooooo much potential. If youre like me and have suffered through eleventy thousand Stephanie Plum stories, but cant quit because they are your crack, you would have probably been all giggly schoolgirl upon starting this one too. Basically, Indy is a moron just like Stephanie. She gets kidnapped and blown up and shot at, etc., etc., etc. The difference here? SHE BANGS RANGER. Now, it takes a while to get there, but Lee is totally Ranger and they totally bang. (And you can just go ahead and spare me if you even are thinking of getting pissy and saying this isnt like the Evanovich series because Kristen Ashley has in her mothereffing BIO that Evanovich is one of her influences.) So what went wrong?????Ashley should have taken a bit more inspiration from Evanovich and realized that there was not enough story here for 400+ pages. I can get over the very loose Rock Chick gimmick seriously girlfriend listened to rock music, wore denim miniskirts, bangles and big belt buckles and had a claim to fame of getting a little handsy with a guitar hero . . . . To say the Rock Chick moniker was a bit of a stretch is the understatement of the year. Oh, and lets talk about those clothes . . . . Good Christ, I dont need a description of every godblasted outfit the woman wore each day. Theres an old saying: the devils in the details. If thats true, then Old Scratch mustve had a front row seat during the writing of this one.Some of you are probably asking why didnt I just cut bait and DNF instead of letting it annoy the shit out of me for nearly three days? Well, because (1) KA really triggered the ol sploosh zone for me with one of her previous offerings, (2) this one had some of the aforementioned things going for it as well as having a pretty LOL-able bad guy . . . . Think Im kidding????He was short, had to be in his fifties and had jet-black hair with white at each temple. He looked like what I would guess a young Grandpa Munster would look like, except a lot more creepy and definitely scary, but not in a comic way.(3) It made me chuckle a few times. Not only because Indy was a loveable idiot, but also because of stuff like this . . . . Wear sexy panties tonight, he said against my mouth. I dont have any other options except commando. Lees arm tightened spasmodically right before he murmured, Christ.Not to mention (4) I was not blessed with the ability to not finish something. Mainly because . . . . It probably goes without saying that I wont be continuing on with this series. Im sure that wont hurt Kristen Ashleys feelings one little bit since she has a mass of fangirls. Seriously, I dont know how yall do it. I get that these are self-pubbed, but for Jeebus' sake at some point you have to . . . . I can't imagine the eye twitch I would develop if I managed to get through SEVEN more (FFS!) of these things.