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samix3reads's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
samanthamarie's review against another edition
3.0
This story takes place over such a short period of time although he’s wanted her his whole life. I’m not taking a microscope to the story, it’s basically sm*t and I knew that going in. For that it delivers but I had a real issue with the sister’s decision making.
She struggles mostly unnecessarily and almost completely due to her own pride. River is messy and that’s fine! I just really didn’t understand her decisions at all. Her brother couldn’t stay with her because of her daughter? People have uncles, people have relatives and friends that they rarely see because of distance but can still communicate with them. Not wanting her daughter to see a man leave? She's 3! Especially after learning the father doesn't even know the child exists, I doubt she's developing a complex from being "abandoned" (because she wasn't abandoned). I think a toddler can understand not everyone lives with them forever (does the daughter understand Jasmine's relationship considering they don't live together? does she develop a complex when they're not together?). Unless there's something truly awful we're to learn about her ex, this is a very weird side character.
She struggles mostly unnecessarily and almost completely due to her own pride. River is messy and that’s fine! I just really didn’t understand her decisions at all. Her brother couldn’t stay with her because of her daughter? People have uncles, people have relatives and friends that they rarely see because of distance but can still communicate with them. Not wanting her daughter to see a man leave? She's 3! Especially after learning the father doesn't even know the child exists, I doubt she's developing a complex from being "abandoned" (because she wasn't abandoned). I think a toddler can understand not everyone lives with them forever (does the daughter understand Jasmine's relationship considering they don't live together? does she develop a complex when they're not together?). Unless there's something truly awful we're to learn about her ex, this is a very weird side character.
jackie_of_all_books's review against another edition
4.0
Sarge Purcell and Jasmine
Band : Old News
Hook, New Jersey
Band manager : James
Sarge just got dropped off at his sister Rivers house after their band is taking a much needed break. He left at 18 and is just now coming back for the first time at 22. His sister has a daughter Marcy, who is 3 he hasn’t even met yet. River is excited to see him but tells him he can’t stay and confuse Marcy right now but could stay at jasmines. Jasmine was his crush and one of the reasons he needed to get out of the town, she had been his baby sitter. He goes to the bar to get drunk. But then there she is and she smacks a man 3 times and he won’t quit kissing her so Sarge attacks. Jasmine doesn’t even realize who he is at first, just hello shoulders, are you sure this is the boy I used to babysit? Jasmine insists that he stay at her house. When they get back she starts to make him a grilled cheese and it pisses him off. He doesn’t want to be the kid she cares for anymore. So he tells her he’ll make the grilled cheese this time but she won’t eat it because she says it makes her feel like he’s judging who she dates. But when he makes sexual comments at her and she tells him he needs to stop he tells her only if she takes a bite of the sandwich, so she does. That night he calls over and asks if she’s awake and she tells him to play her a song and he does. Little does she know every song he’s wrote is about sex and her. The next day she has to go into the room he’s sleeping in to get her purse and she’s already sexually charged but he’s naked and his jewels are something to be proud of. But he notices her so she takes off to her car and starts to finger herself when he interrupts and finishes the job for her and tells her he wants to pump her full when she gets home. He goes upstairs to finish himself off when he gets a call they their drummer Lita got knocked up again, so he has the manager James meet him there. He’s pissed he didn’t get to Jack one off. He calls Jasmine while she’s at work and tells her he got chased by paparazzi when he went to buy her Christmas decorations and he’s stuck in a Dunkin’ Donuts bathroom. She picks him up and when they get home she showers while he attempts to decorate. They hear carolers and he begs to join them but she chooses to seduce him to distract him from that. She tells sarge he doesn’t understand how rejection feels. We know Jasmine had wanted to be a singer and encouraged sarge and he went big while she’s a factory worker living in the same town. He ends up fingering her til she cums again and then she dry humps him til he came in his pants. The next day at work she confesses to river, because she feels guilty. It’s time for sarge to meet Marcy and Jas comes walking out of the house and he asks her to stay. He feels so much love when he sees his niece and gives her the necklace. When they leave rivers house, jas says they need parameters. She doesn’t want anyone in town to know what they’re doing. She tells him how hard it was making it nowhere. When they get home he asks her about the blue dress she wore 7 years ago which was the dress she wore when she sang at her peak. At first she lies and says she doesn’t have it but then she puts it on for him. And then he fucks her in it. He eats her out to start and then when he enters her she cums again and then when he hits it from behind she cums again. He makes her call him her man while he’s hitting it but he knows after she’s questioning that. He tells her while he’s here, he’s her man. The next morning she realizes sarge may want more than she can give him. He’s famous and she’s a factory worker she can’t ask him to give anything up for her. They don’t fit. He comes out and begs to pack her lunch for her and care for her. That day they get called off their lines early and when they go outside there’s pizza and beer. She hears her song, girl in blue and knows sarge is behind this. He calls her and tells her to watch the video of him eating her out, she’s so turned on, he calls again and tells her to meet him at the side of the building. She sucks his dick and then he makes her cum in return. He asks if he can have her for the rest of the day and he takes her to a mall a few towns over in hopes they won’t see anyone they know. He tells her he wants her help getting a Christmas present for Marcy and he wants to buy her a new ugly dress and she can buy him an ugly outfit too. She gets him an ugly tye dye shirt and he makes her try on a 69 dress that she manages to make look so good. After they leave there they go into the toy store and he confesses wanting yo buy Marcy everything after missing out on 3 years of her life. She suggests a kid sized guitar and he could give her lessons even when he’s on the road. And then a crowd comes in begging him to play and he says only if his partner will sing. Jasmine doesn’t want to but she does. Sarge is bringing out the best in her. That night they go to the bar for her retirement party and he’s the hero for the pizza and beer. She had told him they can’t tell the town they’re together and she’s already missing his touch. He comes over to see river who says she’s leaving soon and he questions her. When river leaves he tells Jas he heard from the town gossip that river is working a club at nights. He also asks about Vaughn who had been her boyfriend who left while she was pregnant. Sarge had found out Vaughn doesn’t even know about Marcy and had gotten an address for Vaughn from the town gossip. Jas tells him that’s not his decision to make. Jas thinks she needs to push sarge away because feelings are getting involved and she’s scared. When she comes out of the bathroom he’s waiting for her in the party room. He puts her on his dick but won’t relieve her and tells her this is how he felt for years. Wanting something he didn’t even know what it felt like. Finally he relieves her pain. And during this he tells her he loves her and is going to stay in Hook. And she stops. She knows this is exactly what she should want to hear because she’s getting attached. But he can’t stay in Hook for her. He can’t give up this contract. He’ll start to hate her over time knowing he gave that up. She’s 7 years older than him, he’ll realize he wants someone younger. She doesn’t even want the town to know because after he’s gone she’d have to live with the talk. She tells him this that he can’t say those things, he can’t give those things up for her. He tells her he has always loved her. She tells him she’s not the same girl she was then. And he tells her he loved the girl she was then and he loves the women she is now and nothing has changed. Jasmine can’t wrap her head around this and asks him to leave out a different exit so they aren’t seen together. We know this hurts sarge but he tells her he’s willing to stay and break down her walls and he goes out the other exit. When Jas goes to leave carmine is leaning up against the door and makes the exact comments she always knew would come. About how he’d eventually want a younger women and she’d never be enough for him and she needs to wake up. And she realizes how bad she wants Sarge beside her for this as a United front and she punches carmine in the face and gets high fives as she leaves. She knows she has a lot of thinking to do. Jasmine has decided after the Christmas program she’s going to tell sarge she wants him to stay and make their life together. When she’s with him nothing else matters. But she’s watching the show and she meets James and he tells her that if they give up their gig they’re gonna miss out on going big and he wants her to know that but tells her to keep sarge in the decision. And she knows they need to talk. Sarge finds river upset because Vaughn is on his way. Sarge tells her he’s going to stay in town and help with Marcy and she tells him she wants him to visit but she wants to do this on her own and he realizes all the people he love don’t want him. So when he sees Jas he tells her goodbye and grabs his guitar from Lita. Jas is at Christmas with Marcy and River and after opening her bomber jacket she’s so sad witbout sarge she can’t do this. River tells her to go to him and be with them and they’ll be there waiting when she’s ready to come home. Sarge is blaring music locked in his dark hotel room when he sees light and feels soft skin and there is his gold, Jasmine. He thinks it can’t be real but then she writes him a song asking if she can still be his girl in blue and that she loves him too. And then they make love on Christmas and say they have a lot of catching up to do. The epilogue is 2 months later. Her and sarge got a house together in Malibu. He signed onto a world tour gig and she told him where he goes she goes. She had started doing voice lessons but she could FaceTime and do them on the road. She’s started writing and singing with sarge more. James asks if she’s ready to go on stage and she hears them chanting her name and he tells her the band voted her on as the newest member so she’s late to her first gig. They sang together and they always would. Eek!!! I really liked this book. The spice was pretty damn good. Sarge came back as a man and proved it to Jasmine. I love that he brought her out of her music slump and into the world and made her a part of his success, I hope the rest of the series is Lita and James and Vaughn and River!!! I need some closure on them and of course more of Jas and Sarge. Crashed out is the title. There wasn’t a specific time I saw the title in the book. But I would say he was crashed out of music without her and she had crashed out of life without him and then they crashed together to sing together for life.
Band : Old News
Hook, New Jersey
Band manager : James
Sarge just got dropped off at his sister Rivers house after their band is taking a much needed break. He left at 18 and is just now coming back for the first time at 22. His sister has a daughter Marcy, who is 3 he hasn’t even met yet. River is excited to see him but tells him he can’t stay and confuse Marcy right now but could stay at jasmines. Jasmine was his crush and one of the reasons he needed to get out of the town, she had been his baby sitter. He goes to the bar to get drunk. But then there she is and she smacks a man 3 times and he won’t quit kissing her so Sarge attacks. Jasmine doesn’t even realize who he is at first, just hello shoulders, are you sure this is the boy I used to babysit? Jasmine insists that he stay at her house. When they get back she starts to make him a grilled cheese and it pisses him off. He doesn’t want to be the kid she cares for anymore. So he tells her he’ll make the grilled cheese this time but she won’t eat it because she says it makes her feel like he’s judging who she dates. But when he makes sexual comments at her and she tells him he needs to stop he tells her only if she takes a bite of the sandwich, so she does. That night he calls over and asks if she’s awake and she tells him to play her a song and he does. Little does she know every song he’s wrote is about sex and her. The next day she has to go into the room he’s sleeping in to get her purse and she’s already sexually charged but he’s naked and his jewels are something to be proud of. But he notices her so she takes off to her car and starts to finger herself when he interrupts and finishes the job for her and tells her he wants to pump her full when she gets home. He goes upstairs to finish himself off when he gets a call they their drummer Lita got knocked up again, so he has the manager James meet him there. He’s pissed he didn’t get to Jack one off. He calls Jasmine while she’s at work and tells her he got chased by paparazzi when he went to buy her Christmas decorations and he’s stuck in a Dunkin’ Donuts bathroom. She picks him up and when they get home she showers while he attempts to decorate. They hear carolers and he begs to join them but she chooses to seduce him to distract him from that. She tells sarge he doesn’t understand how rejection feels. We know Jasmine had wanted to be a singer and encouraged sarge and he went big while she’s a factory worker living in the same town. He ends up fingering her til she cums again and then she dry humps him til he came in his pants. The next day at work she confesses to river, because she feels guilty. It’s time for sarge to meet Marcy and Jas comes walking out of the house and he asks her to stay. He feels so much love when he sees his niece and gives her the necklace. When they leave rivers house, jas says they need parameters. She doesn’t want anyone in town to know what they’re doing. She tells him how hard it was making it nowhere. When they get home he asks her about the blue dress she wore 7 years ago which was the dress she wore when she sang at her peak. At first she lies and says she doesn’t have it but then she puts it on for him. And then he fucks her in it. He eats her out to start and then when he enters her she cums again and then when he hits it from behind she cums again. He makes her call him her man while he’s hitting it but he knows after she’s questioning that. He tells her while he’s here, he’s her man. The next morning she realizes sarge may want more than she can give him. He’s famous and she’s a factory worker she can’t ask him to give anything up for her. They don’t fit. He comes out and begs to pack her lunch for her and care for her. That day they get called off their lines early and when they go outside there’s pizza and beer. She hears her song, girl in blue and knows sarge is behind this. He calls her and tells her to watch the video of him eating her out, she’s so turned on, he calls again and tells her to meet him at the side of the building. She sucks his dick and then he makes her cum in return. He asks if he can have her for the rest of the day and he takes her to a mall a few towns over in hopes they won’t see anyone they know. He tells her he wants her help getting a Christmas present for Marcy and he wants to buy her a new ugly dress and she can buy him an ugly outfit too. She gets him an ugly tye dye shirt and he makes her try on a 69 dress that she manages to make look so good. After they leave there they go into the toy store and he confesses wanting yo buy Marcy everything after missing out on 3 years of her life. She suggests a kid sized guitar and he could give her lessons even when he’s on the road. And then a crowd comes in begging him to play and he says only if his partner will sing. Jasmine doesn’t want to but she does. Sarge is bringing out the best in her. That night they go to the bar for her retirement party and he’s the hero for the pizza and beer. She had told him they can’t tell the town they’re together and she’s already missing his touch. He comes over to see river who says she’s leaving soon and he questions her. When river leaves he tells Jas he heard from the town gossip that river is working a club at nights. He also asks about Vaughn who had been her boyfriend who left while she was pregnant. Sarge had found out Vaughn doesn’t even know about Marcy and had gotten an address for Vaughn from the town gossip. Jas tells him that’s not his decision to make. Jas thinks she needs to push sarge away because feelings are getting involved and she’s scared. When she comes out of the bathroom he’s waiting for her in the party room. He puts her on his dick but won’t relieve her and tells her this is how he felt for years. Wanting something he didn’t even know what it felt like. Finally he relieves her pain. And during this he tells her he loves her and is going to stay in Hook. And she stops. She knows this is exactly what she should want to hear because she’s getting attached. But he can’t stay in Hook for her. He can’t give up this contract. He’ll start to hate her over time knowing he gave that up. She’s 7 years older than him, he’ll realize he wants someone younger. She doesn’t even want the town to know because after he’s gone she’d have to live with the talk. She tells him this that he can’t say those things, he can’t give those things up for her. He tells her he has always loved her. She tells him she’s not the same girl she was then. And he tells her he loved the girl she was then and he loves the women she is now and nothing has changed. Jasmine can’t wrap her head around this and asks him to leave out a different exit so they aren’t seen together. We know this hurts sarge but he tells her he’s willing to stay and break down her walls and he goes out the other exit. When Jas goes to leave carmine is leaning up against the door and makes the exact comments she always knew would come. About how he’d eventually want a younger women and she’d never be enough for him and she needs to wake up. And she realizes how bad she wants Sarge beside her for this as a United front and she punches carmine in the face and gets high fives as she leaves. She knows she has a lot of thinking to do. Jasmine has decided after the Christmas program she’s going to tell sarge she wants him to stay and make their life together. When she’s with him nothing else matters. But she’s watching the show and she meets James and he tells her that if they give up their gig they’re gonna miss out on going big and he wants her to know that but tells her to keep sarge in the decision. And she knows they need to talk. Sarge finds river upset because Vaughn is on his way. Sarge tells her he’s going to stay in town and help with Marcy and she tells him she wants him to visit but she wants to do this on her own and he realizes all the people he love don’t want him. So when he sees Jas he tells her goodbye and grabs his guitar from Lita. Jas is at Christmas with Marcy and River and after opening her bomber jacket she’s so sad witbout sarge she can’t do this. River tells her to go to him and be with them and they’ll be there waiting when she’s ready to come home. Sarge is blaring music locked in his dark hotel room when he sees light and feels soft skin and there is his gold, Jasmine. He thinks it can’t be real but then she writes him a song asking if she can still be his girl in blue and that she loves him too. And then they make love on Christmas and say they have a lot of catching up to do. The epilogue is 2 months later. Her and sarge got a house together in Malibu. He signed onto a world tour gig and she told him where he goes she goes. She had started doing voice lessons but she could FaceTime and do them on the road. She’s started writing and singing with sarge more. James asks if she’s ready to go on stage and she hears them chanting her name and he tells her the band voted her on as the newest member so she’s late to her first gig. They sang together and they always would. Eek!!! I really liked this book. The spice was pretty damn good. Sarge came back as a man and proved it to Jasmine. I love that he brought her out of her music slump and into the world and made her a part of his success, I hope the rest of the series is Lita and James and Vaughn and River!!! I need some closure on them and of course more of Jas and Sarge. Crashed out is the title. There wasn’t a specific time I saw the title in the book. But I would say he was crashed out of music without her and she had crashed out of life without him and then they crashed together to sing together for life.
jwilson4444's review against another edition
2.75
The plot was no plot and the relationship development was no development but there was a lot (and I mean A LOT) of spice and who knows, maybe that’s what you need right now buttt I did not
hmmm_ireadthatsomewhere's review against another edition
2.0
"Read" this as an audiobook and it just wasn't produced well IMO. I finished it as a captive listener but I believe it would have been 100% better with dual narration. The female voice didn't change or waiver and it was hard to get the male POV from the same voice used through out the book.
naaytaashreads's review against another edition
4.0
"Stop trying to be a good girl, baby. We're here to be bad."
This book was wow.
I did not expect it to be SO FUCKING SPICY.
Like, my heart and brain weren't ready.
This definitely can't be read in public, trust me.
I love Hot & Hammered series so much.
From that series, I know it was a new adult plotline.
I was expecting the same from this but this went above and beyond with the spicy times.
Just like the cover, the title, the blurb. THIS WAS SUCH A ROCK AND ROLL SEX READ!
It was pure sex. Let's not lie, the plotline was mostly spicy sexy times.
The sexual tension was already there since the two characters have a "past" with each other.
What's different about it though, is we rarely get this but the female lead is older than the male lead which I love.
It was a simple straightforward plotline.
Nothing too wow. But did I enjoy it? YAS.
Can't wait to read the rest of the series and other Tessa Bailey's spicy work!!
"What about the part when I told you I love you, Jas? Let me know if you're planning on ignoring it, so I can say the words again. And again. Until you can't."
This book was wow.
I did not expect it to be SO FUCKING SPICY.
Like, my heart and brain weren't ready.
This definitely can't be read in public, trust me.
I love Hot & Hammered series so much.
From that series, I know it was a new adult plotline.
I was expecting the same from this but this went above and beyond with the spicy times.
Just like the cover, the title, the blurb. THIS WAS SUCH A ROCK AND ROLL SEX READ!
It was pure sex. Let's not lie, the plotline was mostly spicy sexy times.
The sexual tension was already there since the two characters have a "past" with each other.
What's different about it though, is we rarely get this but the female lead is older than the male lead which I love.
It was a simple straightforward plotline.
Nothing too wow. But did I enjoy it? YAS.
Can't wait to read the rest of the series and other Tessa Bailey's spicy work!!
"What about the part when I told you I love you, Jas? Let me know if you're planning on ignoring it, so I can say the words again. And again. Until you can't."
kayladbruns's review against another edition
2.0
I’ve had my hits and misses while reading Tessa Bailey’s backlist and I’m going to label this book a miss. It truly has to do with our heroine Jasmine. If I could, I would give this book 5 stars for Sarge alone. I love the way he pursued her and his filthy mouth. Goodness, that filthy mouth of his.
Throughout this whole book, she stands behind their age gap as a way to pull away from him. She kept saying that it was supposed to be casual but he kept telling her how much he wanted her and for how long. Hell, he even wrote a song about her! There’s no way she seriously thought it was causal for him. Also, their age difference was only 7 years. The way she was going on about it you would have thought it was like 15+. I kept waiting to see what was so important about Jasmine or why she stayed on his mind over the years, but it never happened.
So, I didn’t love this one. It was bearable but nothing I would reach for again. The next book is about River and I might pick that up to see what happens when her ex comes back to see the child he didn’t know he had.
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Throughout this whole book, she stands behind their age gap as a way to pull away from him. She kept saying that it was supposed to be casual but he kept telling her how much he wanted her and for how long. Hell, he even wrote a song about her! There’s no way she seriously thought it was causal for him. Also, their age difference was only 7 years. The way she was going on about it you would have thought it was like 15+. I kept waiting to see what was so important about Jasmine or why she stayed on his mind over the years, but it never happened.
So, I didn’t love this one. It was bearable but nothing I would reach for again. The next book is about River and I might pick that up to see what happens when her ex comes back to see the child he didn’t know he had.
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mccorbin's review against another edition
3.0
We love Tessa Bailey here at The BookWhisperer so any chance to read her books, we jump on it and that is what we did with this series.
Tessa writes alpha-males to the max – never once have I read a non-possessive, under-protective, and non-driven male in any of her books. Sarge is like all of her other male characters – hot and controlling. Coming home after becoming a rock success and finding out that his sister has roomed his with his childhood crush (and childhood babysitter) brings to a boil all of his feelings for Jasmine again.
What I liked about this book was that Sarge was exactly what I thought he would be…alpha-male. He knew how to talk the talk and walk the walk (if you get my meaning.) Sarge saw what he wanted, was tired of waiting, and went for it.
I also found Sarge’s sister and niece’s story interesting and am looking forward to learning more about their past and future.
However, for some reason Jasmine did not speak to me. Normally, most to Tessa’s female characters are very strong and independent women and I didn’t get that with Jasmine. Instead of working towards what she wanted and succeeding, she gave up after rejection and shied away from ever singing again. She also kept pushing Sarge away because she felt like their age difference and his success was a big deal and people would judge her and while I kind of understood that, I also felt like she should have just went for what she wanted…which was Sarge.
I also felt that Sarge’s sister and niece should have played a bigger part in the story. Sarge comes home three years after his niece is born and has maybe two encounters with her even though each encounter goes well. I guess if I had come home after three long years, I would be at my sister’s house hanging with my niece any spare moment that I could
Tessa writes alpha-males to the max – never once have I read a non-possessive, under-protective, and non-driven male in any of her books. Sarge is like all of her other male characters – hot and controlling. Coming home after becoming a rock success and finding out that his sister has roomed his with his childhood crush (and childhood babysitter) brings to a boil all of his feelings for Jasmine again.
What I liked about this book was that Sarge was exactly what I thought he would be…alpha-male. He knew how to talk the talk and walk the walk (if you get my meaning.) Sarge saw what he wanted, was tired of waiting, and went for it.
I also found Sarge’s sister and niece’s story interesting and am looking forward to learning more about their past and future.
However, for some reason Jasmine did not speak to me. Normally, most to Tessa’s female characters are very strong and independent women and I didn’t get that with Jasmine. Instead of working towards what she wanted and succeeding, she gave up after rejection and shied away from ever singing again. She also kept pushing Sarge away because she felt like their age difference and his success was a big deal and people would judge her and while I kind of understood that, I also felt like she should have just went for what she wanted…which was Sarge.
I also felt that Sarge’s sister and niece should have played a bigger part in the story. Sarge comes home three years after his niece is born and has maybe two encounters with her even though each encounter goes well. I guess if I had come home after three long years, I would be at my sister’s house hanging with my niece any spare moment that I could
tessisreading2's review against another edition
3.0
As usual, a lot of sex scenes strung together with a paper thin plot, but this is probably why you're reading this book in the first place.
ericad_weber's review against another edition
4.0
(Audiobook)
Daaaaaamn. People kept telling me that Tessa Bailey was spicy but I had read a few of her books before and wasn’t that impressed…but this one knocked it out of the park!! This is an age gap romance between a rockstar musician and the woman who used to babysit him. I was hooked from the beginning of this one.
Daaaaaamn. People kept telling me that Tessa Bailey was spicy but I had read a few of her books before and wasn’t that impressed…but this one knocked it out of the park!! This is an age gap romance between a rockstar musician and the woman who used to babysit him. I was hooked from the beginning of this one.