Dangerous Rock by Crystal Kaswell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’m married to a rock star.
And I don’t even know his last name.

Bella
There’s a tall, tattooed man in my bed.
Not any tall, tattooed man.
He’s a rock star.
A sex god.
And now he’s my husband.
Last night, I married Joel.
It’s ridiculous. I’m a good girl. I don’t get into trouble. I don’t look twice at bad boys. I can’t stay married to a rock star.
But there’s something about Joel. Not just the way his green eyes light up when he smiles, or the way he makes me laugh, or the way he makes me shake with pleasure –
I’m not sure I can walk away.

Joel
Bella Chase is a challenge.
With the tight bun and the cute cardigan, she’s as prim and proper as they come.
My only plan for the night is getting her under me, screaming my name.
Filling her with so much pleasure she begs me to stop.
I didn’t plan on marrying her.
But now that she’s my wife, I’m not about to let her go.

Dangerous Rock is a full-length standalone romance with a smoking hot rock star hero, a strong yet vulnerable heroine, Kindle-melting chemistry, and a HEA.

Dangerous Rock

Rockstar romance without the tour!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤❤️💚💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😟🤭😤😘🥰

The heroine: Bella – she is the good girl in her family, the intelligent one. She has always excelled at everything. She attended Harvard and got great grades and got into Columbia law school. Though after just one semester, she got her grades back and they were all C’s. That is like failure to her, who always has to be perfect. So, she heads to Las Vegas to blow off some steam and to forget about her life in New York.

The Hero: Joel – he is the drummer for the rock band Dangerous Noise. They are famous, but not ultra famous. He is often recognized as a celebrity and has 3 or 4 million dollars, but his band is still up and coming. Their next tour starts in about 3 months, and they will be the opening act to a really big-name band. He loves women and has a lot of one-night stands, but most of the women only want to say they had a night with The Joel Young of Dangerous Noise, they don’t want to know him.

The Story: When Joel finds out that his parents are getting a divorce, he heads to Las Vegas to try to get that news out of his head. Though he doesn’t want the same kind of woman he usually picks up. When he sees the strait-laced Bella, with her nerdy glasses, her hair in a tight bun and her sexy pencil skirt, he is immediately attracted to her curves and thinks she is beautiful. They have a wild night of drinking, dancing and they get married on a whim.

When they wake up the next morning, Joel knows they have a connection and he wants to stay married, yet Bella thinks there is no way she can stay married to a man she just met yesterday and married while she was drunk. Though since Joel’s attorney is on vacation for Christmas, they have to wait a week to get a divorce. Bella agrees to go home to Venice Beach with Joel, and they spend that time getting to know each other.

I liked both main characters from the start. They both had some deep-seated issues, that they didn’t talk about with anyone, so I really liked it when they started opening up with each other. I could really feel the connection between these two and I could feel how much they wanted to stay married to each other, though they were afraid of getting hurt if one of them fell deeply in love and the other didn’t. I also loved the fact that they both decided early on that they wanted to take the chance even if they did get hurt in the process.

The one thing I didn’t like about this book was that some of the conversations seemed over my head. I often had to look back to see if I was missing something because I was reading too fast, but I never was. I don’t know if it is just her writing style, or if she got lost between what the characters were thinking and what they were actually saying out loud, but some of the conversations seemed to jump topics and I didn’t know what they were actually talking about. It made me feel dumb, which I generally am not. I have my MBA and always got straight A’s in school, so I don’t think it was me, but who knows.

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