Playing At Love (Rogue #2)

What a pleasant surprise! This author’s series came highly recommended to me by another rock star romance avid reader who appears to love the rock star romance just as much as I do. Conor and Felicity. This series hits many realistic scenarios. This one in particular, there’s no other way to put it, Conor’s just a hot, alpha, adonis, gorgeous talented rock star. Personally, there’s nothing really tragic in his life but he never forgets what his band mate, Gavin, what his childhood tragedy was like. He’s your typical rock star, sleeps and dates only the elite models and actresses because of his stunning “pretty” looks. In high school, he and Felicity were friends with benefits because it was convenient for both. After she left Ireland for college as she said she always would, ever after she married someone from Canada, her and Conor always remained close friends throughout the years. After her husband leaves her suddenly and cruelly, she returns home to take care of her sick mother reconnecting with Conor and the rest or Rogue once again. To say they have many obstacles is an understatement. Conor’s engaged to a brat, Colette, while he’s also trying to mend his shaky relationship with Gavin after his one night with Sophie. Each band mate is moving forward with their lives while Conor is first figuring out the real relationship thing and slowly realizing he doesn’t want to be a part of Colette’s immature games of manipulation any more. It’s beautiful to watch him grow and blossom. Really it’s nice to see how they all grow together as a family. Conor and Sophie’s unique friendship is still there, always in the background but read every book to see how it goes. Incredible. I love them all, you will too.

Just brilliant. I despise cheating and three somes in any romance novel, so much so that I usually refuse to read anything with it but when I say this is the exception I kid you not. Especially once you read this entire series, as each book is incredible, there’s no way Sophie will not be possibly your favorite heroine of all time. This author, Lara, has the skill to not only focus on each band mate individually giving them their own book but every single other band mate and character is touched upon strongly in each read. All of their day to day lives flow perfectly in each book but the introduction to Gavin, Conor, Shay “Seamus” and Martin “Marty” was exceptional, you’re just sucked in and don’t want to come up until you’ve finished Finding Rhythm. Gavin, Conor, Shay, Marty, Sophie and Felicity were there from the very beginning in high school when they were just starting to form Rogue and throughout the entire series these same characters remain a constant in each book. That is not an easy feat to accomplish but Lara did it brilliantly with much growth and maturity to each character. Their bond was felt constantly through her words and their actions not just read about.

After reading a lot of rock star reads and finally finding a more mature 5* incredible series by B.B. Miller and Leslie Carson, I’ve been extremely selective on my reads. There will be no more whiny, immature heroines for me or man whores with groupies left and right so when this recommendation was suggested to me by me voicing the same I didn’t think it was possible for someone to fulfill what Redfall has begun but Lara’s work did just that! Rogue is definitely a reread for me.

Great story, yes! Believable, yes! Characters, love them, especially the hero and heroine in this one. Threesomes, no. Cursing, yes, but nothing crazy, it’s a rock star read. Sexy, yes, Conor is the sexiest of this bunch. HFN, yes. I recommend not only this book but the entire series.