Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE : Looking at Forever
SERIES: Rock Gods #4
AUTHOR: Ann Lister
PUBLISHER: SleighFarm Publishing Group
LENGTH: 482 Pages
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Mick Wheland, Ivory Tower’s bad-boy guitarist, has recently realized two important things about himself. He prefers sex with men over women, and the idea of a committed relationship doesn’t scare him as much as it once did. He’s seen the positive effects of love from watching his band-mates find life partners, and now he’s thinking he might be ready for the same himself. The problem is knowing where to look for Mr. Right, and living out of a suitcase while touring with a band is not exactly conducive to finding real love.
Sonny (Rooster) Roostarelli leaves the seclusion of his Vancouver cabin, where he went to lick his wounds after a contentious divorce, and moves back to Los Angeles. He claims relocating to L.A. is for business purposes, but now that the dust has settled on his failed marriage, Rooster feels he might finally be ready to settle down – with a man.
A chance encounter for Wheland and Rooster on a busy L.A. street rekindles an old friendship between the two professional musicians. Rooster needs a short-term place to stay and Wheland has plenty of extra space at his hillside estate and that lands Rooster in Wheland’s guest room. What starts out as a music collaboration opportunity quickly turns personal when the chemistry they have becomes too strong to ignore and soon the music they’re making spills from the studio and into the bedroom.
The road is a grueling bitch musicians love to hate. Being on stage under the hot lights can sometimes be the only place they feel comfortable and alive. Can two high-profile rock stars make a life together in such an artificial world – on and off the stage… or will past mistakes and family secrets keep them from finding their forever?
REVIEW:
Looking at Forever, part 4 in the Rock Gods series, brings us to Wheland “Mick.” the bi-sexual bass player of Ivory Tower and Sonny “Rooster,” song writer and former member of a different rock group.
We’ve met Wheland before, especially in book part 3 as Mick is a very good friend of Cooper (also being his former hookup partner). Mick caused quite a bit of trouble for Cooper and Jayson while trying to figure out what he wanted for himself.
Author Ann Lister left us in book 3 with the question of whether or not Mick would finally figure out his sexual orientation and in this fourth part we get a full blown gay Wheland/Mick.
Both men are fabulous and interesting and sexy and hot like all the other men in this series,and the chemistry between them is off the charts and flying from your pages.
Wheland and Rooster pick up their friendship easily when they stumble into each other after quite some years. Having known each other for a long time, they venture out, spending some time together leading Wheland to offer Rooster a place to stay.
They carefully explore their wants and feelings and they get together in an intense way, moving fast when they finally give into their attraction and the pull towards each other. Knowing Wheland needs to get on the road eventually, the exact thing that Rooster doesnt want to do anymore, makes them both aware of the seperation that is going to follow in the end. Yes the need to be together is strong and very well presented by the author.
What I would have loved to have seen was the song Wheland wrote for Sonny, to hear him sing it for Sonny. Rooster toured extensively with his former band and it is exactly what he doesn’t want to do anymore a I mentioned and even his feelings for Wheland cannot change that. He does promise him to visit him on tour and the feeling of loss and missing the other is enormous and more then either of them had expected. Can they make it being apart for long periods of time after finally finding in each other the love they both have been searching for?
It feels wierd coming out of my mouth in a way I guess but a little bit less sex would be ok. I mean don’t misunderstand me I love the high erotica level in all these books and I am definitely someone who looks for that in the books she reads. It’s also the reason why I stated it feels odd coming from me, but there is a lot of sex.
The story, the characters and the allround writing is compelling, interesting, and exciting. The story holds it’s own really well (like the complete series does) and author Ann Lister obviously is obviously a master in erotic writing.
One of the best things about this series is the fact that all the main characters feature in each others stories. As one half of the main characters is part of the rock band Ivory Tower Alex (book 2), Cooper (book 3), Wheland (book 4) we see all of them and their (extended) families featured throughout all the books. Even Dagger and Ryan from book 1 make an appearence in all books.
The way Ann Lister keeps the connection between all of them is gold in my opinion. As a reader you feel connected to all the men and you can’t wait for more. There is always something coming that you want to experience.
So off to read the latest part to experience Jared and Tony’s story AND then hopefully returning to Black Ice with Dante and Ash.
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