Tangled Up In You (Rogue #1)

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. Gavin and Sophie…well I got sucked in at the very beginning and barely came up for air until I finished Marty’s story in the last book “Finding Rhythm”. This story hit many realistic scenarios, Sophie attending a full school year in Ireland, where she met Gavin and his band mates, because of how catty some of her fellow students were in California. A form of bullying. Gavin, being abandoned at a young age from his mother because of tragedy, Ian, his brother, jealous because of his success. Pressures from becoming famous world wide at a young age, never getting over how Sophie’s rejection by just leaving him when her year was up in Ireland even after he proposed, even years later when they would meet up again and wed his inner turmoil from these past issues couldn’t be quieted. After rekindling what they once shared with what they predicted as their HEA real life started but Gavin suffered disconnection from her and life opening the door to Sophie and his band mate Conor sharing unique moments together when Gavin left her to fend for herself. Gavin just wasn’t in a good head space and turning to drugs made it worse, and because of his age and miscommunication with Sophie and his rejection of her helping him, Sophie wasn’t aware he asked for space to get back on the right path for her especially since he never told her or reached out with his plans during his time away.

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 book one, Gavin and Sophie’s story, 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, sublime, love them, especially the hero and heroine in this one. Cheating, yes but please press forward and read this series, it works here and I won’t say any more to not spoil it. I’m not saying it’s okay because cheating will never be okay in my opinion but it’s redeemable here. Circumstances, comes down to it here. Threesomes, no. Cursing, yes, but nothing crazy, it’s a rock star read. Sexy, yes. I recommend not only this book but the entire series.