L is for Love

I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April.

Focusing on an A to Z of my TBR (to be read) list, each letter will have books starting with that letter on my list, a book I’ve read and reviewed (with the review!) and one of my books matching the letter with a link about more info about the book.

I chose the books this year quite randomly from my Goodreads Want to Read page. Some are quite creatively added to letters.

If you’d rather check out my folklore post for today, go here.

You can read reviews for from previous years for this letter here, here and here, and my year-end reviews here, here, here, here and, most recently, here and here.

My TBR

About the Book I’ve Read

How to Date a Rockstar (Cash & the Sinners #1) by D.E. Haggerty

Fall back in love with the rockstar who broke my heart? Never happening.
Live with him for a year to save my grandma’s house? That’s a different story…

When my beloved grandma dies, I travel to the small town of Winter Falls to settle her affairs. The last thing I expect is to find a man in her shower.

Worse yet? The man is Cash Evans. Singer of the world-famous Cash & the Sinners. And the boy who broke my heart at our high school graduation.

Cash thinks he can bat those gray eyes at me, and I’ll jump into his strong arms. He’s wrong. He broke my heart once. I’m not letting him do it again.

I don’t care how he’s some hotshot rockstar now. How his eyes warm when they look at me. How my body heats when he touches me. How he claims he didn’t dump me to become a rockstar.

Good thing I’m leaving Winter Falls as soon as I sell Grandma’s house.

But Grandma’s up to her old tricks. According to her will, I have to live in her house for a year or it will be destroyed.

And Cash has a rental agreement to live in the same house while his band records their next album.

How am I going to resist temptation when I’m forced to live in the same house with Cash? When he walks around in nothing but boxer shorts showing off all those hard muscles and making me forget about my broken heart?

This second chance, forced proximity, rockstar, small town romantic comedy features a woman who doesn’t want to want a rockstar but can’t help herself, a rockstar who’s determined to get his girl back even if it means putting up with her demon cat, four band mates who think watching Cash chase Indigo is a hoot, and a whole town of hippies convinced they’re the best matchmakers this side of the Mississippi.

How to Date a Rockstar is a standalone novel in the Cash & the Sinners series.

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

So much fun to read! A small town filled with people who love nature, where cars are banned because they’re bad for the environment, a group of elderly women call themselves the gossip gals (they know everything about everyone and they enjoy matchmaking), and everyone knows everyone. And they’re big on privacy – which is why a world-famous band can hide out there and record a new album.

I liked that Indigo got to return to a place she loved. Her cat is adorable!

So many LOL moments with Cash’s band and his brothers.

Second-chance romances aren’t my favourite, but it’s a good story with loads of healing moments for both of them.

About the Book I’ve Read

How to Love a Rockstar (Cash & the Sinners #2) by D.E. Haggerty

I’m a librarian. Dylan’s a rockstar. We can’t possibly be a match despite what the meddlesome matchmakers of the small town of Winter Falls think.

No one is more surprised than me when Dylan walks into a wall the first time he catches sight of me. Even more surprising? He immediately asks me out.

Um, I don’t think so.

Dylan may be a smoking hot rockstar, but he’s also the boy who humiliated me in high school. Worse yet? He doesn’t remember me! He’s beyond crazy if he thinks I’ll ever date him.

But Mr. Persistent isn’t getting the message. Wherever I go in Winter Falls, there he is with a smile on his annoyingly gorgeous face and a twinkle in those ocean blue eyes I want to drown in.

Ignoring him and those muscles I long to lick every inch of is my best defense. Until I move into my new apartment to discover Dylan’s living across the hall.

How am I going to avoid him now? Especially when the matchmakers of this quirky small town keep tricking me into spending time with him?

And what happens when I realize Dylan isn’t the jerk I thought he was?

Can a shy librarian learn to love a rockstar?

This rockstar small town romantic comedy features a cinnamon roll hero who will do anything and everything necessary to convince his little librarian to date him, a shy librarian with mental scars who thinks she doesn’t know how to love a rockstar, four bandmates who are having a ball watching Dylan get shot down time and time again by Virginia, a whole town of hippies convinced they’re the best matchmakers this side of the Mississippi, and a hedgehog named Harry that proves to be the best matchmaker of them all.

How to Love a Rockstar is a standalone novel in the Cash & the Sinners series.

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

I liked Harry the hedgehog – so cute!

Jett and Gibson are so immature, but it makes the whole rock band things work.

I liked that Dylan was perceptive enough to pick up on Virginia’s fears and need for safety and that he did everything he could to keep her safe.

A bit more gossip gals involvement would’ve been great as well as more things happening in town with the great ambiance from the first novel and not just hanging out with the band.

Virginia’s past makes me think she probably needs a bit of therapy – and get Peace to arrest her family for malicious intent to harm (or whatever legal reason he can make stick).

I liked that it was a story about a rockstar who loves a librarian.

About the Book I’ve Read

How to Fall For a Rockstar (Cash & the Sinners #3) by D.E. Haggerty

The last person single mom Leia expected to move in next door was a grumpy rockstar.

I’m enjoying my new life in the small town of Winter Falls with my daughter. Until I knock over my new neighbor during a game of tag.

One glance at him and I realize I’m the luckiest girl alive to be living next door to this sexy beast with a beard I want to dig my hands in and green eyes I could drown in.

But then he opens his mouth and berates me for being a bad mother. I’m not feeling guilty about accidentally kneeing him in the balls now, that’s for sure.

Who does he think he is? Being the bass player for the world-famous Cash & the Sinners band does not give him the right to tell me how to raise my child.

I’d stay a million miles away from him if I could. Unfortunately, my daughter Isla is enamored with Mr. Grumpy Pants and is always finding excuses to spend time with him. I get the appeal. Those muscles look strong enough to lift me up and push me against the nearest surface.

But no matter how tempting the man is, I’m keeping my distance. I don’t need a grumpy rockstar to tell me what to do.

The busybodies of this town can do their best to matchmake us. This match has fail written all over it.

I know better than to fall for a grumpy rockstar.

This rockstar small town romantic comedy features a grumpy rockstar who’s not interested in a relationship but can’t help himself when it comes to his sunshiny neighbor, a single mom who doesn’t trust men – certainly not the grumpy rockstar living next door – and is determined to NOT fall for a rockstar, four bandmates who are having a ball watching their grumpy bandmate try to figure out how to get the single mom to fall for him, a whole town of hippies convinced they’re the best matchmakers this side of the Mississippi, and an eleven-year-old daughter who may be the best matchmaker of them all.

How to Fall for a Rockstar is a standalone novel in the Cash & the Sinners series.

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

I liked that the town was thoroughly used in this story – it gave it that special atmosphere from book 1. But what happened to the dog?

For the most part, I enjoyed Fender and Leia’s story. But him calling her a bitch during their argument just didn’t work for me. Him being grumpy and distrustful of all women was fine. Calling her names? No.

About the Book I’ve Read

How to Be a Rockstar’s Girlfriend (Cash & the Sinners #4) by D.E. Haggerty

Fake date a rockstar for funsies? Not in a million years.

Fake date a rockstar to help my uncle? Where do I sign up?

When I find out I have a long-lost uncle who needs my help, I can’t get to the small town of Winter Falls fast enough.

Turns out my great uncle needs more help than I can provide. He should be in a nursing home. But the crotchety old man refuses to move anywhere.

He claims he’ll only move into a nursing home when I’m settled with a boyfriend. Sneaky man. He knows I’m on a break from men after the last one cheated on me and stole my business from me.

But then Gibson Lewis, rhythm guitarist for Cash & the Sinners, offers me a deal. He’ll pretend to be my boyfriend if I help him convince his bandmates we’re in a relationship.

I jump on the deal. I don’t care how Gibson is a bad boy who tempts my resolve to stay away from men. How I long to trace my tongue over his tattoos. Or thread my hands through his perfectly mussed up hair and wreck it.

A rockstar can’t tempt me. I’m no rockstar’s girlfriend. I’m a country girl to the core. I got this.

Spoiler alert. I don’t got this.

This fake relationship rockstar romance features a sassy mechanic who’s determined to make better choices about men but will do just about anything to help the uncle she never knew about, a flirty rockstar who refuses to accept he has a problem that can’t be solved with a flirty wink and a smile, four bandmates who are beyond skeptical that their player bandmate suddenly has a girlfriend, a whole town of hippies convinced they’re the best matchmakers this side of the Mississippi, and a crotchety old man with a heart of gold.

How to Be a Rockstar’s Girlfriend is a standalone novel in the Cash & the Sinners series.

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

I liked that Mercy’s a mechanic. And Old Man Mercury’s niece. The Gossip Gals weren’t as active as usual, but they did their part.

I enjoyed the fake dating trope. Not a fan of Gibson calling her a bitch while drunk, but at least he realised (when sober) it’s not okay – and did something about his drinking problem.

Too many blocks of italics, though. I had a problem with the italics as it messes with my eyes and head, making it difficult to read and enjoy the book. Authors and publishers: please consider the neurodivergent when making decisions about italics so books are accessible to all.

A fun small town romance – with awesome cars.

About the Book I’ve Read

How to Catch a Rockstar (Cash & the Sinners #5) by D.E. Haggerty

The drummer for Cash & the Sinners is an arrogant jerk. He’s also the father of my baby.

Since the first time I gazed into Jett’s piercing blue eyes, I’ve dreamed about running my hands over every inch of his toned muscles while tracing his tattoos with my tongue. Too bad he’s the supreme jerk of the universe.

But I can’t walk away from him. Not when I’m the personal assistant for the legendary band Cash & the Sinners and Jett is their drummer.

So when Jett gets injured and the band is three states away, I’m the one rushing to the hospital. The one taking him home to care for him.

I might have taken too good of care for him since I’m now knocked up.

When I travel to the small town of Winter Falls to tell him about the baby, Jett loses his mind. Told you he’s a jerk.

My boss is an even bigger jerk when he finds out I fraternized with a member of the band I’m managing. Now, my job is on the line and I have nowhere to live.

Somehow I end up staying in Jett’s house. The father of my baby who wants nothing to do with me isn’t exactly thrilled about this development. Neither am I.

I don’t know how we’re going to survive this living situation. Someone should probably hide the knives.

All I know is this is not how to catch a rockstar.

This surprise pregnancy, forced proximity, rockstar romcom features a feisty assistant who thinks she has everything under control but couldn’t be more wrong, a drummer who’s running so fast from his past that he doesn’t see the possibility of the beautiful future that’s right in front of him, four bandmates who don’t hesitate to meddle in the mess their drummer has created, and a whole town of hippies convinced they’re the best matchmakers this side of the Mississippi.

How to Catch a Rockstar is a standalone novel in the Cash & the Sinners series.

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

Despite the rocky start (enemies to lovers in a real I can’t stand you way and throwing around “bitch” and “bastard” to describe each other), it’s the best book in the series.

Jett grows a lot and there’s a real reason for his commitment phobia.

The gossip gals are hilarious. Measuring tapes, various bets, barging into rooms they don’t belong. LOL.

And there’s a true feel of community and family in this book – everything Jett and Aurora truly need.

A good end to this small town Rockstar romance series.

My Book

Irascible Immortals Volume 1-3

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