Review: Rock Addiction

Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Ah...what to say.

So I had started this book ages ago and gave up about 3 chapters in. I picked it back up to finish it as a personal challenge as I kept hearing how many people like Singh's writing.
I can only guess that they haven't read this book.

It starts out well enough, lots of strong female characters who are supportive of each other. Some sort of past horribleness that puts the main character Molly Webster so on her guard that she has never had sex before, however when confronted by the interest of her celebrity crush's desire to bed her she goes home with him for a one night stand.

That should have been all the tip-off that I needed to never return to this book.

What follows is an uneven tale that switches back and forth from Molly to her Rock star crush Fox, both unloading their formative year's trauma's to each other in such a way that any little conflict that might have made the story interesting was quickly swept away by one soppy conversation after another bracketed by sex.

oh god, soooo much sex.
Sex that you will find yourself skipping pages of because you just don't care.

Add in the fact that Fox is borderline creepy possessive and demands that if they are going to be together then Molly has to come live with him, leaving behind all her support network literally on the other side of the world and I'm left thinking 'you in danger girl.'

The one big conflict that could have been interesting at the end of the book is easily fixed in a manner of speaking withing about ten pages, and you really don't care.

I'm going to give the rest of this series a hard pass and go back to rugby romances for any of my New Zealand romance reads.

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