Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Broken Chorus
SERIES: The Road to Rocktoberfest 2024 Multi-Author Series
AUTHOR: Layla Dorine
PUBLISHER: Desolate Press
LENGTH: 320 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 22, 2025
BLURB:
Change has never come easy for Aaron, even when it’s been for his own good. He avoids it when he can, rebelling against anything the least bit uncomfortable. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do to prevent the implosion of his band. Now he must decide how to deal with the fallout.
Quit?
Or help his best friend and former bandmate build something new?
He wished the choice was easy, but there are too many triggers buried in his head and old memories dredged up when ghosts from his past reach out to him.
~~~
Hawk loved making music. A life of travel and performing was the only one he’d ever pictured for himself. When an accident left him the guardian of his brother’s three children, he was forced to make some tough decisions. The ripples sent shockwaves through his band and decimated friendships in the process.
His choice gave him an instant family.
But does it have to cost him the man he loves?
Hawk might be on his way to the grocery store while Aaron heads for the desert, but there are many roads to Rocktoberfest and many ways of uniting a family.
Broken Chorus is part of the multi-author Road to Rocktoberfest 2024 series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but why not read them all and see what antics our bands get into next? Hot rockstars and the men who love them, what more could you ask for. Kick back, load up your kindle and enjoy the men of Rocktoberfest!
REVIEW:
I am so thrilled to be back on The Road to Rocktoberfest!!!
Change has never a good thing in Aaron’s life since he was a young boy and his life is currently in a major whirlwind. Aaron knows that Hawk is it for him but Hawk’s life now isn’t the life they have lived. Hawk went from “party hardy and live life on the edge rocker” to uncle/dad to his brother’s three babies after that horrible and fatal accident changed all their lives. Now over half the band is gone and his best friend Kelly thinks bringing in an Amish guitarist and a drummer in a wheelchair will solve everything. But all it does is bring back a whole slew of ghosts and demons from Aaron’s past that he ran hard from. And Kelly really should know that! And Hawk should too! But Hawk keeps pushing him away and to back to this group he wants nothing to do with…as the frontman/lead singer no less! What the heck is wrong with everyone. And he’s suppose to stay off the alcohol too? But Aaron will do anything to have his Hawk back in his life full time including suffer through this mistake that Kelly has put together. But will that even be enough?
This story was a bit more angsty than I’m used to with Author Layla Dorine. I got where Hawk knew he needed to really watch what happened around the kids. And that this was all brand new to him. Losing their parents so tragically and his life being turned upside down was a major challenge. One that he was grossly ill-equipped for. To come off of being a rock stars that partied 24/7 to luckily having dried up and was sober just before the crash was extremely fortunate for both Hawk and Aaron. But Aaron has many demons from his past that he fights daily and all this sudden change is doing a number on him and his reactions aren’t helpful. And, with what appears to be Hawk shutting him out of his and the kids lives, a downward spiral is inevitable. I realize that Hawk didn’t want to shut him out. He just never wanted to take away the chances that were suddenly ripped from him to be taken from Aaron too. He couldn’t handle taking away what creating and preforming music did for Aaron. It had always been his escape. However his trying to protect Aaron almost sent Aaron deep down a slippery road and alcohol was close to being his choice to numb himself again. But his love for those three babies and his commitment to their uncle, whether he was committing back or not, was the only tether he had to sobriety. Thankfully Hawk realized that Aaron’s return to their hometown was a situation that he needed to be there for him and they finally got their lives aligned and on track. His grandfather’s interactions shed a lot of light on his reactions/behaviors with Declan.
I always enjoy the men that Layla Dorine has brought forth in her books and Hawk and Aaron’s story was truly a great ending to a tough battle.
RATING: 
BUY LINKS:
