Reign by Cassandra Robbins

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO LEGENDS COLLIDE?
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Robbins comes her latest sinfully hot rockstar romance. A scorching, enemies to lovers, deliciously addictive stand-alone about rock ‘n’ roll royalty and burning obsessions.

They call him a legend.
One of the greatest guitarists of our time.
The mighty Ace of Spades brought in to produce my album and save the day.

Not only is he covered in tattoos. He’s gorgeous, talented, and infuriatingly arrogant, even demanding I trust him.
Trust him?
I. Hate. Him.

I’m a former child star turned rock princess, caught up in all kinds of bad press and scandal. I need to stay focused on my music, and career. Not get distracted by his filthy mouth and piercing eyes.

If only our chemistry wasn’t off the charts, or the fact that I can barely breathe when he’s near.

Time is ticking. Sooner than later, the chaos and mayhem of our lives will take over.

Everything becomes messy.

And tricky.

Rockstars don’t get happily ever afters…or do we?

Reign

Super steamy rockstar romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚💜❤️
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🙁☺️😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Courtney Falcon – she is twenty-three and the lead singer of chart topping, Broken Vixens, and she recently found her best friend/guitarist Roxy in bed with her boyfriend Johnny. Turns out they were sleeping together for a while and doing it in Courtney’s bed and Roxy is pregnant. Courtney is a diva in every sense of the word, though she has been suffering from depression and feelings of self doubt for years. She decides to break up the band and go solo. Courtney was raised by a stage mother and forced at a young age into singing, dancing, acting and beauty pageants. She was on a sitcom for eight seasons while growing up, that was where she met Roxy.

The Hero: Marshall Adams (a.k.a. Ammo) – he is a thirty-seven-year-old rockstar and producer. He is arrogant, cocky and a bit of a jerk. He is a playboy with a famously large package, and he loves his life. When a friend asks him to produce an album, he wants nothing to do with it until he listens to the demo, then he is more than interested. He is surprised to find it is Courtney Falcon on the demo and he wants nothing to do with that train wreck.

The Story: Ammo agrees to produce the record if Courtney promises that there will be no drama, only work. He knows he is not good with relationships and plans to never marry. He is used to women falling at his feet and adoring him, sometimes in groups. So, when Courtney shows up at his house for a meeting and finds him with a bunch of groupies, she is not happy.

I really liked how the two main characters hated each other at the start of the book but were attracted to each other and butted heads non-stop. You could feel the chemistry between Ammo and Courtney and the intimate scenes were sizzling with Ammo being quite dominant in bed. I am a big fan of rockstar romance, usually the Hero is the rockstar and in this one both Hero and heroine were famous, so I liked that this wasn’t just the standard rockstar trope. I also really liked the mystery aspect after Courtney’s stalker is released from prison and things start happening.

I wasn’t too fond of the fact that the Hero smoked cigarettes or the drinking and partying. I mean once in a while is fine, but these people wake up with hangovers a bit too often for my tastes. There are a lot of terrific supporting characters, some good and some bad. The main characters surround themselves with an entourage of people that work for them and clingers. It made for some good storylines and seemed pretty realistic.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Corvin King and Angela Rocca. I haven’t heard either of these narrators before. I wasn’t too fond of Angela Rocca, who has a decent voice, but you can certainly tell she is reading, from her pauses. I did like Corvin King’s voice, and he spoke in a good tempo, which sounded more natural than Angela. I certainly wouldn’t mind listening to more books that he narrates.

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