Lynn Reynolds
Blu enjoys the good times to be had but is he a bad boy at heart. Ashleigh has an interesting neighbor but is his mother someone you want to get to know better. Listening to music, playlist is included, just might be a good thing. Even though this book is part of a series, this book can stand on its own. This is a story that shows what can happen when you try to have a relationship with someone famous. I did enjoy that for Ashleigh there wasn’t an instant connection. She’s a woman who is trying to be cautious – especially when it involves the heart. That is an incentive to turn the page. The other incentive is seeing what Blu may do next. He has a big personality but the author does a good job in not letting him overtake the story. She also gives us just enough of the other members of Blu’s band without making the story all about the music business. Some scenes give you just enough and if you wish you can use your imagination to fill in the blanks. Our author has created an interesting group of men that even if this may be your first book of the series, you’ll want to see what the other members of the band have in store. Especially after you read the ending. This author is new for me and I was surprised to see how many books she has out. While waiting for her next book, I’ll have to go back and check out Play For Me. Then at some point, I’ll have to look into what else she has written. I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
Sandy S.
SING FOR ME is the second instalment in Tam DeRudder Jackson’s contemporary, adult BALEFIRE erotic, rock star, romance series focusing on the rock group BALEFIRE. This is Balefire’s lead singer Blu Connolly, and part time school teacher/music reviewer Ashleigh Baker’s story line. SING FOR ME can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalment is revealed where necessary . Told from dual first person perspectives (Ashleigh and Blu) SING FOR ME follows the building romance and relationships between Balefire’s lead singer Blu Connolly, and part time school teacher/music reviewer Ashleigh Baker. Ashleigh Baker is a music reviewer, a big fan of the rock group Balefire, and good friend and neighbour to Balefire’s lead singer Blu Connolly’s mother Diane. With the band on hiatus, Blu returns to his home town to spend a few days with his mother and in doing so meets our heroine, the woman with whom Blu will fall in love but Ashleigh is well aware of Blu’s reputation with woman, and in this, Ashleigh struggles to trust the man with whom she is falling in love. When her career as a music reviewer implodes, Blu invites Ashleigh in Balefire’s new tour, a tour that will see Ashleigh return home with a broken heart, and Blu having no idea what happened or why. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Blu and Ashleigh, and the fall-out as jealousy and obsession threaten the relationship between our leading couple. Blu Connolly never intended to settle down but meeting his mother’s neighbour stirs something deep within our storyline hero. Ashleigh is a music reviewer whose career is about to be ripped out from under her until Blu offers Ashleigh the chance of a lifetime, and with it, a chance to grow closer for our leading couple. The relationship between Blu and Ashleigh is a frenemies to lovers as Ashleigh, albeit a fan, struggles with her attraction to, and Blu’s history as a ‘love em and leave em’ kind of guy. Refusing to fall for Blu’s attempts to seduce, Ashleigh continues to push away Blu Connolly but the heart wants something the head refuses to accept. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text. Once again, we are introduced to the members of Balefire: Adam Tron, and Dakota Perri, and Jack Whitehorse and his fiancé Clio Barnes (Play for Me #1), as well as their manager Garrett Phillips, Blu’s mother Diane, and Rolling Stone reporter Benson Strauss. SING FOR ME is a story of friendships and relationships, jealousy and betrayal, determination and love. The fast paced premise is captivating and entertaining; the romance is provocative and intense; the characters are energetic, and sassy but it took several chapters before I warmed up to Ashleigh Baker.
Cassandra G
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Sing for me: Book two in the Balefire series and you meet Blu Connolly and Ashleigh Baker this time round. He’s a harden rockstar with an equally wild past. She’s a substitute teacher whose also a music reviewer who has a passion for gardening. She lived in the house she rented next door to his mother’s house. They meet, one night when he rolls up to his mother’s house, revving up his Harley and waking up the neighbourhood. Mind you that was not a good impression for a first meeting, but then again, he had no idea she was even there. Eventually they got around to getting to know one another. It had fun, spice, some suspense and some dicey characters, who’ll get it eventually, may or may not, get a lesson or end up in a coffin. It was an enjoyable read and you’ll enjoy it so when you get a chance pick up a copy and enjoy.
