Rebel Rockstar

I really enjoyed this book. It's all about second-chance love, survival, trust, loyalty, friendship, family and finding strength within yourself. The girls in this story, Jem, Tonya & Lola are really inspiring characters with the amount of strength the display in taking on their trials head on and doing what's right. I do feel bad for the character Nate just because he really does have to go through a lot. Not that the girls don't. I don't know, he just seems to always be stuck in the middle somehow but, he does gets his hearts desire by the end and that's really all that matters. Well done, Marci.

Nate and Jem were high school sweethearts and they did a movie together, both young singers in the business, and very much together. Jem and Nate were in a particularity hot make out session and Nate took it a step further than ever before. He found his way to her chest when Jem suddenly broke away from him and broke up with him the following day.<br /><br />Fast forward and they both are scheduled on a cruise ship to perform.<br /><br />Jem to boost her career and Nate to stop his self-destructive behavior sinking his career.<br /><br />If that isn't enough, Tonya Becker, the girl always jealous and hateful to Jem is there.<br />Last to join the group of singers is a young up and coming singer named Lola. She befriends Jem almost immediately as she heard crying in their shared bathroom and found Jem there.<br /><br />Jem, Nate and then Tonya came along and they were all part of the same company when they first started out.<br />She's always has been jealous of Nate and Jem being together, so she tries to insinuate herself into their relationship every chance she gets.<br /><br />After Jem suddenly broke up with Nate when they were doing a movie together, she found a different manager to guide her career. Nate as well as Tonya changed managers too as they all represented different music styles.<br />Along comes Lola who happens to be represented by Cole, the same manager they all had when they first started out.<br /><br />Jem upon learning of Cole seems to shut down momentarily, but recovers by telling Lola it's because she's tired.<br />Somehow Jem has to get make sure Lola knows about what Cole is really capable of. Cole isn't as nice as he seems. She knows she'll have to have a talk with her before the end of the cruise. <br /><br />They have a dinner to introduce all the singers and Tonya goes to work being nasty to Jem before they get there and practically purrs a greeting to Nate when she arrives behind Jem and Lola.<br /><br />Jem and Nate each have their work cut out for them individually and together in respect to trying to find their way back to one another again.<br /><br />Secrets and stories that should've been told before now are being held by everyone, including the newest singer Lola.<br /><br />It all plays out to a direction I hadn't anticipated.<br />I recommend you read this story for yourself.<br />You won't be disappointed.<br /><br />Aunt Bee<br /><br />ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

I received this book in exchange for my honest review.<br /><br />Jem is a squeaky clean, all American Country music star. She is known for her good girl image. So why is her manager lining her up on a cruise ship for a gig, oh yeah and by the way a new wardrobe and make up.....not the good girl image she is known for and it makes her uncomfortable. To make matters worse she has to share the spotlight with her ex - a rockstar who has fallen off the grace wagon. She still misses him like crazy but this is too much. But she adores her fans and will do anything she is asked to keep her music alive (if she even makes it out of this situation at all.)<br /><br />Nathan is the rock star fallen and tarnished a bit, not a has been but well on that road due to his heavy drinking. His manager has had enough of the bad boy and all the crap that is coming along with that image. Time to clean him up and put him back on top. So when Nathan is told he is set up for a gig on this cruise ship. he thinks awesome. Then the bomb drops doubly hard, no alcohol at all, and you will be sharing the spot light with Jem. Will he get answers from her about why they ended the way they did? <br /><br />It starts off rocky from the start, she tries to ignore him at all costs, he is intrigued and really misses her. He tries to be friendly and all but it is not really working. Then events start to happen some good but with the price of the really bad things that happen first. Jem and Nathan start talking and things go from there. However there is still a secret that is lingering. Jem doesn't say anything because she thinks he will leave her and really none of it is her fault. Nathan could care less what this is about he wants her back in his life for good. Then bomb after bomb start dropping and it is a bumpy road to say the very least. But they do win out over the dark clouds over them, and soon they are smiling and seeing nothing but love and blue skies.

How many chances at pecan two playing people get before something gets cemented. How many times can a girl have self hate with what happens to or around her. This was a very very good story of younger love, New love and not all pop stars are self absessed idiots, this is a group of people that have thing in common and will do anything to set wrongs right.<br />Jen a country pop singer always was the good girl of music and when she made a movie, romantic one, she met a young up incoming bad boy singer Nate. They had sparks a connection but she was having a very bad time in her life and it wasn't just losing her father and disconnecting from her mother but a bad thing from her then manager. <br />Years later both Jen and Nate live their lives differently, her still projecting the good girl and Nate as the playboy. Her manager forces her on a cruise ship and told to sex up her image. How much can a country pop artist sex up with out being slutty? <br />Nate is force on the same cruise ship and he is forces to 'clean up' his image, he's the one that drinks until passed out... sleeping with all kinds of women... but how s plates 'fling' is a certain call girl that ruines careers of any one she slept with, and Nate was her latest. Hence the clean up his act. But the next that got away after all these years is the one he still loves and pines after and when he sees Jem on the ship he knows that he will to the bottom of their younger split and he will get her to be his before the end of the cruise contract. <br />What never one expected is their second chance at love will have so any hurdles that have to jump before they can temp fate and be together. Does end in a HEA for not just the main couple but for their friends also.<br /><br />ARC was given for a honest review

I want to say I love being able to find new authors that I look forward to reading. This is a new author that I really enjoyed reading and look forward to reading more of. Nice job <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/15057991.Marci_Fawn" title="Marci Fawn" rel="noopener">Marci Fawn</a>, you have another loyal reader.<br /><br />I received this book as an ARC for an honest review. And an honest review is what this book will get.<br /><br />I am a sucker for a great bad boy romance book and this is one of the best I have read lately. I loved that this book was set around a group of singers dealing with real situations. I did not know what to expect from this book because I had never read a book by Marci Fawn before and thought that this would be a great introduction to her books. Now that I had read this book I am going to have to read more and more of them.<br /><br />I found the characters to be well developed and real. Their fears, hopes, dreams, thoughts, and emotions were real and things that I have either felt or know someone who has. They were complex but not overly complex that they were unrelatable (sp?).<br /><br />There was one character that I just wanted to strangle because people like him make me so angry and don't deserve to be free. I was so glad that he got what he deserved though I wish that it had happened sooner. The suspense of it all made it a great book.<br /><br />It is a book I would recommend and was a great read! I look forward to reading it again.

Received this complimentary arc copy from the author for an honest review.<br />Oh Nate..Oh Jem. This poor couple has had such a rollercoaster of a ride in life and all they want to do is be together. <br />Jem an up and coming singer loved Nate , a rock singer but had certain secret issues that she could not reveal to him which made her leave. Why!!! Now they are both scheduled to sing on the same cruise ship. OMG..what will she do now. At first, Jems emotions are all over the place but as the story goes along , you realise why. Nate is confused with Jems behaviour over the years and wonders what's going on. With having to deal with Nates ex girlfriend Tonya, drunken behaviour and secrets of her own , it makes you wonder how Jem copes . <br />Making new friends with Lola is a godsend but Jem, Lola and an ex girlfriend, Tonya all have a story to tell. A story of love, hope, dreams, threats, abuse and so much more. Loved it. <br /><br />

This author's stories really tug at your heart strings. This is the second book I have read by her. Amazing. Her stories delve into real life problems, and how love can overcome and heal. Jem and Nate met as teenagers on the set of a movie. They are both singers also. Something awful happened to Jem, and she pushed Nate away. In his misery he became a drunken, man whoring, rock star, in a downward spiral. Years later they meet, and still love each other, but they have to reveal their secrets and forgive each other. Outside influences however, keep thwarting their relationship. This story deals with a serious issue that many young women deal with, who have no one to protect and council them. The ending was happy but surprising, and people you think are you enemies just might be your best friend.

I received an ARC for a honest review.<br />I recommend this book. In my opinion it is a great second chance romance with suspense, emotion and romance. Jem is an up and coming singer with secrets that have caused issues with her relationship with Nathan. Nathan is an up and coming rock star who is still in love with Jem and can't figure out what he did to cause her to run from him. They are both told their images need make over. She is too wholesome and he is much of a partying man-whore. They end up on a cruise together that brings them closer while also threatening to cause them to hate each other. <br />A great second chance romance with parting rock stars, high class call girls, enemies and virgins.

I received an ARC for an honest review:<br /><br />Up until about 14% of this book I was very bored. I truly liked the plot &amp; the characters but at times it seemed to drag and then it was moving at warp speed. I get that Jem &amp; Tonya bonded over something they both went through but I feel like Jem trusted Tonya way too quickly after so much animosity. Additionally, she referred to Lola as her best friend after knowing her for only a few days. I would have liked a little more focus on Nate &amp; Jem reconnecting before all these misfortunes were thrown at them but I'm a sucker for a HEA with no cliffhanger, so it was ok.

Nathan and Jem find themselves together after she ended the relationship. They are going in very different directions now. He is the player that needs to calm down the antics and she is the sweetheart that needs a little more fun. Being in proximity is difficult for them both. It gives them a second chance but they have to open up and share some truths to get where they need to be. They also have someone intending to keep them apart. <br /><br />It is a very good story and I enjoyed it. The characters are well-written. It is a thoughtful story about the struggle to make it all work.<br /><br />I received a copy in return for a honest review.