Review: With the Band by Natasha Preston (With the Band #1)
Note: This ARC was provided by InkSlinger PR in exchange for an honest review.
With the Band is the first novel in the new adult (NA) rock star romance series of the same title from author Natasha Preston. This series starter focuses on Kitt Daniels, the twenty-two-year-old lead singer of up and coming rock band Filthy Sound, and Texas Knight, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a rock legend and a famous supermodel. Kitt and Texas are close friends with a mutual attraction neither one really acknowledged until one drunken kiss during a Christmas party. Now, they're pretending that never happened, and cover up whatever evolving feelings they have with outrageous flirting and plain old denial. But when more kisses and more intimate things happen between them, going back to being friends grows increasingly more difficult. With Texas's father and his band as Filthy Sound's mentors, pursuing the one girl he can't stop thinking about and wanting should be something Kitt avoids at all costs. But what he's feeling isn't temporary or fleeting, and Kitt's beginning to think that being with his Texas is worth the risk.
This was a lighthearted, sometimes nice, sometimes naughty, often sassy and raunchy love story. I did enjoy reading about Kitt and Texas because it was just about them falling in love with one another and contemplating whether or not to pursue a relationship; it was also about Filthy Sound going after their dreams of success in the music industry with the support of Enigma, Mark Knight's ultra-famous and well-respected band. As is the case in love stories like this one: can you really have it all or will you end up having to choose between the person you love and your life's passion? This was a slow burn, so slow at times that it did drag, tempting me to skim just so we could move on from the back and forth Kitt and Texas were going through. They were so intent on pretending they were nothing more than friends but the only people they were fooling were themselves because everyone else seemed to know something more was going on. It was like REALLY long foreplay, but just when I think I've hit pay dirt, complications arise.
Both Kitt and Texas are young and Kitt is at the cusp of finally seeing his dreams come true, but he's also in love with the one girl he should stay away from because she's the daughter of the man he looks up to. Things become far more complicated than they should, courtesy of Kitt's doubts and insecurity, but like I said, she's nineteen, so I wasn't really all that surprised with how she was handling Kitt's fame and their fledgling love affair. They were frustrating at times, but they're both highly likable main characters who have definite chemistry from start to finish. The standouts here were the supporting characters because they brought levity when needed but also provided nuggets of wisdom when required by our young couple in love. I'm suspecting Milo Sterling's story could be up next because of something that happens here in the first book, and I know there's more to Jack "Coop" Cooper than his manwhoring ways, so I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. For a series starter, With the Band did rather well, garnering it four stars. ♥
Release Date: 28 February 2016
Date Read: 26 February 2016
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