Reviewed by Danielle

TITLE: Dedicated

SERIES: A Rhythm of Love Novel

AUTHOR: Neve Wilder

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 328 Pages

RELEASE DATE: December 9, 2018

BLURB:

“Our greatest hit is a love song I wrote for my bandmate. And he has no idea.”

Messy-haired, soulful-eyed, off-kilter lyricist Les Graves holds tight to the hedonist’s credo of consumption in every avenue of life. He has trouble staying still, trouble staying sober, trouble turning down a good time—but put a pen in his hand, and he’ll set a page on fire.

Music was Evan Porter’s ticket out of the backwater mud puddle he was born in, the passion keeping him warm as he busked on street corners. Every chord, every song, every ounce of sweat has been devoted to making Porter & Graves a success. He’s the level-head, the quiet maestro, the seatbelt that keeps Les from flying too far out of control. And he’s getting pretty tired of playing savior.

Their onstage chemistry is electric, offstage it’s… complicated.

After Porter & Graves’s third album bombs, the pressure is on for the duo to redeem themselves with their fourth. While sequestered in an East Tennessee cabin to compose, things take a turn for the worse when an event from their past comes back to haunt them in an embarrassingly public fashion and forces them into an unusual position that tests a partnership already hanging by its bloody roots.

Can Evan and Les find harmony or will they—and their music career—go down in flames?

Dedicated, the first standalone in the Rhythm of Love series, is a steamy bisexual friends-to-lovers romance featuring semi-kinda forced proximity, a fake relationship, angst, snark, a cock-blocking greenhouse, really poor decisions involving social media, and a HEA guarantee.

REVIEW:

When I read about this story in our takeover post on the Love Bytes Lovers group I really got intrigued about it so I asked the author if she would like to have it reviewed and Neve kindly send me a copy. And I am so glad she did!

While I am honest and have to say it took me a while to get into this story, when I was I couldn’t let it go.

It was most fascinating to crawl into Les and Evan’s heads and while reading I got more and more entranced by both of these men and their character.

This story builds on friendship and love for music. I think one of the reasons I struggled with the beginning was the way Les was going through life so to speak. I liked it more when the author focused the attention on both men together…their problems and their friendship and of course, of their struggle with their feelings for each other.

If I have to give some form of criticism. it is that it is a long story and it could have been paced a bit faster especially at the beginning.

As this is a new author to me, I enjoyed the writing and storytelling like I mentioned especially as the story evolved. I loved how it grew more and more intense, interesting and sexy.

As this was a first book in a series I sure hope that the author will continue this series and hopefully that will include some glimpses from Les and Evan.

But  I have to admit the ending was very fullfilling and HEA 🙂

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