Bitchie's Books

This was just a really cute, sweet, fluffy, easy read. No angst at all between the two guys, just a bit of outside angst due to an over zealous publicist.

Jeremy is a thirty one year old rock star, and the son of a famous actress and a musician who died of a drug over dose. He has never had anyone around who wanted to be with him for himself, but for who he was. As such, Jeremy is very jaded in celebrity ways, but because he was raised with lots of handlers and people always calling the shots, he is also VERY naive. More often than not, Jeremy came across as a 20 year old guy just starting out in the world, not as a 31 year old world famous rocker.

Reg is a very laid back guy, working towards his next adventure. He meets Jeremy at the bar he works at, and they spend all night talking. Finally, Jeremy asks Reg to come on tour with him, as his pretend boyfriend. That way he has a friend who isn't out for himself, and he doesn't have anyone to worry about.

As time goes by, they grow closer together, but it takes a LONG time before Jeremy starts to figure out he might want more from Reg than friendship. Jeremy never even entertained the thought of being gay. He's not against it, it just never crossed his mind. He doesn't get all the fuss about sex anyway, he just sleeps with women for the cuddle time afterwards. This guy is just so lonely, and innocent, almost.

So this is a VERY slow burn romance, with no sexual overtones at ALL until 60% in, and no sex between the guys until 70%. It felt like way too much time was spent developing the relationship, and then, once they are together, a lot of details were skimmed over, and they are declaring their love and ever after very quickly after that. I did feel that it ended a bit abruptly, and that Jeremy did still have some relationship issues to deal with.

All in all though, this was a very enjoyable little read. I might have been hollering "get on with it already!" to myself while reading, but not because I wasn't enjoying it. And also, while this book WAS sweet, I didn't feel that it fell into that overly sugary tooth ache inducing sweetness that I have encountered with other books by this author.