Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Nocturnes by Kendall Grey ~ Sarah's Review




NOCTURNES contains 511 F-bombs, 81 well-endowed male chickens, 65 girl kitties, 58 Richard the Lessers, 10 C-U-Next-Tuesdays, and a plethora of other colorful words and phrases that would deafen your virginal mother’s ears and make her bust out her “Shame on you!” finger. If you’ve been tuned in since the beginning of the Hard Rock Harlots series, you know the drill. The sex is extreme, the language is graphic, and the story is over the top. Prudes and under 18s need not apply.

WARNING: NOCTURNES addresses serious topics such as alcoholism, prostitution, and cheating. If you’re looking for a barrel of laughs or sunshine and rainbows, this is NOT the book for you.

Rax Wrathbone is the dirty rock star you love to hate. The filthy fantasy slithering through your bed sheets. The serpent in your lady garden. The snake bite in your panties that keeps you sweating all night. He. Is. Sex.

And he’s no good. For anyone.

After a nasty breakup with his best friend and their band’s drummer, Rax is flying solo for the first time in years. Who needs the drama of commitment when the line for your humping booth spans three city blocks? No, groupies and liquor are far finer company than relationships, and they don’t leave bruises after they’ve had their way with you. At least not lasting ones.

Rax’s new adventures as an alcoholic, guitar-slashing one-man show are going along swimmingly until the only woman who’s ever brought him to his knees shimmies down a pole back into his life. Eve doesn’t abide excessive drinking, she has sex with strangers for a living, and she can’t remember Rax’s name to save her life.

She’s perfect in every way.

Now, if he could just get sober long enough to forget his past and convince Eve he’s worthy of her future…



Nocturnes is definitely my favorite book in the Hard Rock Harlots series.  It is definitely more in my wheel house than the other too.  Lots of angst and darkness.  Still hot sex but not quite in the same vein as the first two books.  If you haven't read Beats and are planning to I'd skip this review, because it will contain minor spoilers for that book.

Eve/Lola has had a seriously rough life.  My heart broke for her when I heard her story.  Knowing about her past and why she is doing what she is doing makes everything that has to do with this story that much more gut wrenching.  She is really just a sad little girl trying to fulfill a promise she had made so long ago.

Rax is a fucking mess, there is really no other way to put it.  He is definitely spiraling for the great majority of this book.  He is battling some pretty severe alcoholism, sex addiction, and a huge broken heart.  Me heart went out to him.  He comes across as a huge ass, but underneath was some pretty severe pain.

Nocturnes is far more about the journey that the characters are taking than the sex that they are having, in relation to the first two books in the series.  There was still plenty of hot sex though, so don't think that it is lacking in any way!!  Nocturnes is a drama-palooza.  I absolutely loved it.  Where there was a ton of humor in Strings, and a nice interspersing of humor in Beats, there is almost none in Nocturnes, which is exactly how I like a book.

There were certain instances in this book that some people will be greatly offended by.  Unfortunately these are also things that come with the career path that Eve has chosen.  In each of those scenes I wanted nothing more than to rip the poor thing from the pages and hold her until she was better.  I don't know how anyone couldn't want to do that for her, especially when they consider the circumstances that have led her to those activities.

Nocturnes is definitely not for the faint of heart.  There is some pretty heavy subject matter, some pretty intense sex scenes, and a boat load of issues contained within those pages.  This story could not have been told any better though.  I felt every second of pain, every ounce of remorse, everything.  It was beautiful.  And the ending was a beautiful point of closure for Rax and Eve, I loved it.  Even the Letty-ness.

Nocturnes is definitely not for everyone.  But, I will guarantee you that if you like darkness in your literature, or if you appreciate some hard core smut, or if you are just looking for something that is going to push your boundaries, you will not be disappointed.



                    





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Kendall Grey, word wrangler, whale warrior, wicked wench, and lover of tongue-tripping alliteration, was born without an off-switch between her brain and mouth. She's been called the "Flux Capacitor of Twitter" (@kendallgrey1) and "A little package of love all wrapped up in F-word paper," but she's really just a maniacal writer relaying eyewitness accounts of the rave inside her head. She writes urban fantasy with strong romantic elements and also dabbles in erotica and horror on occasion.

Kendall lives off a dirt road near Atlanta, Georgia, but don't hold that against her.


                

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