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yodamom's review against another edition
4.0
Mace, YEOWZEERS. I knew he'd be a force of sexy bomb plus, but he blew that rating off the charts. Holy Hot Men, every time I think KA can't op one of her Hot Bunch Boys she does it again. I think I might still be smoldering.
Mace, the secretive, macho man of mystery has his soft spot and it is one sexy songstress Stella and her adorable Saint Bernard Juno. This woman is not new to him, he broke her a year ago. Like all the Rock Chicks she finds herself in danger, and guess who rides to the rescue ? He is not a welcome person, he hurt her, the scars still bleed and so does the attraction. So begins the battle for forgiveness, which is a wonderful and very funny thing to read.
Stella is a singer, and the mother hen to a very dysfunctional group of men. She is also afraid of living of putting her neck out there to be chopped off, again. She is in a loop of comfort, where she wants to stay and cuddle with her dog. If only that hot ex lover would go away, her mind knows he must go now. Her body says no, I want him, I WANT HIM.
Juno
Unfortunately, the big bad that wants to hurt the Hot Bunch wants to do it through their woman and Stella has been pegged as Mace's woman. There are bullets, explosions, macho vehicles, blood, and a lot of fear. None of them are safe, every Rock Chick is a target and we see all of the men jump to protect them.
There are some side issues being worked out. Family dramas, babies, weddings, codependency drama...... it all works.
My last thought, KA's men are perfect for this girl.
Mace, the secretive, macho man of mystery has his soft spot and it is one sexy songstress Stella and her adorable Saint Bernard Juno. This woman is not new to him, he broke her a year ago. Like all the Rock Chicks she finds herself in danger, and guess who rides to the rescue ? He is not a welcome person, he hurt her, the scars still bleed and so does the attraction. So begins the battle for forgiveness, which is a wonderful and very funny thing to read.
Stella is a singer, and the mother hen to a very dysfunctional group of men. She is also afraid of living of putting her neck out there to be chopped off, again. She is in a loop of comfort, where she wants to stay and cuddle with her dog. If only that hot ex lover would go away, her mind knows he must go now. Her body says no, I want him, I WANT HIM.
Juno
Unfortunately, the big bad that wants to hurt the Hot Bunch wants to do it through their woman and Stella has been pegged as Mace's woman. There are bullets, explosions, macho vehicles, blood, and a lot of fear. None of them are safe, every Rock Chick is a target and we see all of the men jump to protect them.
There are some side issues being worked out. Family dramas, babies, weddings, codependency drama...... it all works.
My last thought, KA's men are perfect for this girl.
alexathoms's review against another edition
5.0
All of these books are incredible. I've never been so invested in each one of these relationships, and each new couple is my favorite.
morebksplz's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
bitchie's review against another edition
4.0
Mace was an enigma going into this one, and it took me a while to warm up to Stella. I didn't dislike her, but it took me a while to really like her, if that makes sense. But, as usual, KA pulled it off and I loved them both by the end.
The epilogue felt like it came a book or two too early though, because it gives away the next two couples, and I kinda like being surprised.
The epilogue felt like it came a book or two too early though, because it gives away the next two couples, and I kinda like being surprised.
mefrost's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
katyanaish's review against another edition
2.0
Well, I liked this one the least.
Let me start by saying, second-chance romances are not generally my thing. It is super rare for me to like them. I think that second-chance set with in this series, with the alpha-hole guys, was probably just never going to work for me.
I struggle with the series in general, because the relationships are super 1-sided. The men dictate everything, and even when they do shitty things to the women, the women are pissed for about .005 seconds. All the men have to do is kiss them, and it is all forgiven. I've been having more and more of a problem with that as the series goes on, but that may be because I'm just blitzing through it, and so it is building up.
With this one, it's just all about Mace. Yes, he's had some seriously traumatic shit in his past, and I'm totally cutting him slack for that. But Stella has had some shit too - she's grown up with some pretty horrible abuse - and all of that gets back-burnered because the only one actually allowed to have emotions is Mace. Even when we - for about 30 seconds - address Stella's abusive parents, the scene ends up being not about Stella, but about Mace's emotional reaction to her parents.
Not one goddamn thing in this book is actually about Stella.
Even when Mace tells her that his dumping of her, a year ago, was a "test" - he wanted to see if she'd let him go ... and I have to tell you guys, that's such manipulative, abusive shit that I felt sick - she isn't allowed to have a reaction. She gets mad, and he decides that she doesn't get to be, wants to tell her something about his past, and gives her this bullshit ultimatum that she has to drop her emotional response to him (quite frankly) abusing her and listen to him right now, it's her one chance. When she doesn't immediately kow-tow, he leaves her. Again. She asks him not to - because hey, y'all, that's how emotional abuse works, you manipulate your partner out of their emotional response by just making it all about yourself, and Mace is successful because him deciding to leave her (as per his ultimatum) immediately makes Stella forget about how he fucked her over with his test (literally forget, because it is never, ever brought up in this book again) - and he does it anyway.
I really, really don't like Mace.
And you know, maybe I would have liked Mace if we spent more time working out Mace and Stella's shit, and gave some time to Stella's story so she had equal weight in this book. Because I think that's why I've been cruising through the series so smoothly up until now - even though the relationships are one-sided, the Rock Chicks have equal weight in the story, they have their own lives and their own shit and we spend time working on it. We don't do that with Stella. Any time the story is focused on her, it's her sorting through Mace's shit or figuring out how to get Mace to love her. She's so fucking 2-dimensional. If this book hadn't done that to Stella, it probably still would have worked for me.
Instead, probably about 40% of this book was about the other characters. Seriously, for the first time, we had whole chapters cut away and showing all the previous relationships. It felt like extended epilogues with Lee and Indy (and a big section of this book was about their wedding), Hank and Roxie, Eddie and Jet, Luke and Ava. And then the whole epilogue of this book was also about them. We got a millisecond of Mace and Stella.
This honestly didn't even feel like a book about Mace and Stella at all. Hell, the whole situation, unlike the other Rock Chick books, wasn't even about a problem in her life.
**1.5**
Let me start by saying, second-chance romances are not generally my thing. It is super rare for me to like them. I think that second-chance set with in this series, with the alpha-hole guys, was probably just never going to work for me.
I struggle with the series in general, because the relationships are super 1-sided. The men dictate everything, and even when they do shitty things to the women, the women are pissed for about .005 seconds. All the men have to do is kiss them, and it is all forgiven. I've been having more and more of a problem with that as the series goes on, but that may be because I'm just blitzing through it, and so it is building up.
With this one, it's just all about Mace. Yes, he's had some seriously traumatic shit in his past, and I'm totally cutting him slack for that. But Stella has had some shit too - she's grown up with some pretty horrible abuse - and all of that gets back-burnered because the only one actually allowed to have emotions is Mace. Even when we - for about 30 seconds - address Stella's abusive parents, the scene ends up being not about Stella, but about Mace's emotional reaction to her parents.
Not one goddamn thing in this book is actually about Stella.
Even when Mace tells her that his dumping of her, a year ago, was a "test" - he wanted to see if she'd let him go ... and I have to tell you guys, that's such manipulative, abusive shit that I felt sick - she isn't allowed to have a reaction. She gets mad, and he decides that she doesn't get to be, wants to tell her something about his past, and gives her this bullshit ultimatum that she has to drop her emotional response to him (quite frankly) abusing her and listen to him right now, it's her one chance. When she doesn't immediately kow-tow, he leaves her. Again. She asks him not to - because hey, y'all, that's how emotional abuse works, you manipulate your partner out of their emotional response by just making it all about yourself, and Mace is successful because him deciding to leave her (as per his ultimatum) immediately makes Stella forget about how he fucked her over with his test (literally forget, because it is never, ever brought up in this book again) - and he does it anyway.
I really, really don't like Mace.
And you know, maybe I would have liked Mace if we spent more time working out Mace and Stella's shit, and gave some time to Stella's story so she had equal weight in this book. Because I think that's why I've been cruising through the series so smoothly up until now - even though the relationships are one-sided, the Rock Chicks have equal weight in the story, they have their own lives and their own shit and we spend time working on it. We don't do that with Stella. Any time the story is focused on her, it's her sorting through Mace's shit or figuring out how to get Mace to love her. She's so fucking 2-dimensional. If this book hadn't done that to Stella, it probably still would have worked for me.
Instead, probably about 40% of this book was about the other characters. Seriously, for the first time, we had whole chapters cut away and showing all the previous relationships. It felt like extended epilogues with Lee and Indy (and a big section of this book was about their wedding), Hank and Roxie, Eddie and Jet, Luke and Ava. And then the whole epilogue of this book was also about them. We got a millisecond of Mace and Stella.
This honestly didn't even feel like a book about Mace and Stella at all. Hell, the whole situation, unlike the other Rock Chick books, wasn't even about a problem in her life.
**1.5**
suzysuzy34's review against another edition
5.0
Fucking Amazing, excuse my French. Wow, this maybe the best one yet. I have read a lot of rock chic books, starting with the first one Rock Chic which I have to say I didnt like. Ava I didn't warm to in her book, I enjoyed the book, just not her character.
Books two and three were good, and Rock Chic Regret, which I'm about to re read was my favourite, but now I'm thinking, Stella and Mace's book, might just beat it. For some reason, I've read them all out of order, if like me you couldn't get into book one, try this one, the epilogue was simply amazing, I even had tears in my eyes.
As usual Kristen Ashely you rock, just love your books.
Books two and three were good, and Rock Chic Regret, which I'm about to re read was my favourite, but now I'm thinking, Stella and Mace's book, might just beat it. For some reason, I've read them all out of order, if like me you couldn't get into book one, try this one, the epilogue was simply amazing, I even had tears in my eyes.
As usual Kristen Ashely you rock, just love your books.
trudyd's review against another edition
4.0
Binging the Rock Chicks on Audiobook is ecstasy. The main characters in the series are AMAZING!!!! Starting a book is like going home to visit friends. Every book has romance and lots of drama, just what I need to escape the world for a few minutes or hours.
33lle's review against another edition
3.0
Okay nothing made sense in this book but I love Stella and Mace
simrooon's review against another edition
5.0
ohh boi that Epilogue gave me all tingles
Fuck this was relatively dark, Mace and Stella had pretty FUCKED UP life experiences but good gawd they found each other.
And the whole demn crew, it just gets better and bigger yasss.
Fuck this was relatively dark, Mace and Stella had pretty FUCKED UP life experiences but good gawd they found each other.
And the whole demn crew, it just gets better and bigger yasss.