[I received an electronic review copy of this book from Netgalley and Pantera Press in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.]
Summary
Sarah Burrowes is a former beautician with a degree in journalism looking for her big break. She has a column with a gossip magazine in Melbourne, but she can’t get her boss to give her a real story. If her career woes weren’t bad enough, her boyfriend left her with no explanation and a mortgage she can’t cover alone.
While at a club with friends, Sarah meets a musician who seems as down on his luck as she is. She heads to his hotel with him, but thoughts of her ex get in the way of her one night stand. Then the musician, Chris, gets a phone call that sends him fleeing from the hotel.
“Chris” is actually Chris Ford, the front man for The Fords. And the police think he may have killed the band’s bass player. Sarah manipulates her way into the story of her fledgling career. Soon she is off to Europe with an agency photographer – who’s also her ex’s best friend and a former one night stand. But Nick can be as nasty to her as he wants as long as she gets this story!
Review
This was a wild ride! I enjoyed the story but it got a little slow in the middle. The will-they-or-won’t-they with Nick the photographer was tiring at times. He was hot and cold with Sarah – volatile and cutting one moment and almost tender in another. Maybe if this was told from both perspectives, it would have softened his character into someone more appealing or sympathetic. Instead he was grating.
I enjoyed the mystery and adventure as well as Sarah’s determination to get this story no matter what. Overall this was fine, and I might read another book about Sarah in the future. (Language, sex)