Okay, to be fair, David is not the lead singer and therefore most famous person in the band. Yeah, she might not be a fan of his style of music, but she’s bound to see him on the tabloids that line the cash registers at grocery store right? Or hear about him from friends? Or see him on SNL? I understand why Evelyn’s ignorance is useful-you get to have these two characters develop a relationship without any preconceptions on the heroine’s part, but I always find it really hard to believe that if the hero is that famous, the heroine doesn’t recognize him. Any time a New Adult heroine is a tea-drinking, Bronte-loving special snowflake, I take a shot. To Scott’s credit, she does not employ the teeth-grinding tactic of making the heroine only interested in tea, classical literature or classical music. The heroine is the only person on earth who has no fucking clue who the hero is.

Now, I’ve seen this a lot in New Adults and contemporaries that feature a famous hero. To add to the “WTF happened last night” and the “OMG I’m going to throw up,” that stranger is David Ferris, the hot, tattooed song-writer and member of the band Stage Dive.Įvelyn, who is a fan of country music, has no idea who David is.

This is bound to be disconcerting, but she also happens to be married to that stranger-because Vegas is a place where good decisions are made, people. Scott does a good job of fleshing this fantasy out into a New Adult novel, although the first person perspective left me wondering at what the hero was thinking a good portion of the time and the ending was a little wobbly.Įvelyn Thomas wakes up from her 21 st birthday party in Vegas in bed with a stranger. So yeah, I get the whole popstar/rockstar crush thing. My person crush was on Kevin, the oldest member of the group, who didn’t sing so much as say things like “Baby, I love how you looked in homeroom today” before the beginning of songs, despite the fact that he was, I believe, 30 at the time. I wrote what was, although I didn’t know it, fan fiction in a notebook that, please Jesus, has since been destroyed in the fiery bowels of hell. Now, back when I was a youngster I had posters of the Backstreet Boys lining my bedroom walls. Lick by Kylie Scott is a New Adult for anyone who’s had a crush on a musician. Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult, Romance