Book title: Summer
Sky by Lisa Swallow
Series: Blue
Phoenix #1
Genre: Contemporary
romance
Release date: April
2014
Cover designed by: Najla
Qamber Designs
Hosted by: Forever
Me Romance
SYNOPSIS
Sky changed her life for a man once, and she has no intention of
doing it again - even if he is a six foot, tattooed rock god who makes a mean
bacon sandwich.
Sky
Davis is fed up of boyfriend Grant taking her for granted and when she comes
home to find him wearing a girl, Sky suspects the relationship is over. She
takes an unscheduled holiday and leaves the life (and guy) she hates
behind.
Rock
star Dylan Morgan is struggling with fame and infamy, sick of his life being
controlled by other people. Dylan cuts his hair and walks away from his role as
lead singer of Blue Phoenix, leaving chaos and speculation behind.
Outside
the English seaside town of Broadbeach their cars and worlds collide.
Sky
decides Dylan is an arrogant guy with too many tattoos, and Dylan is amused by
the smart-mouthed girl with no idea who he is. Dylan and Sky soon discover
they’ve travelled to Broadbeach for the same reason - to escape from reality
back to a place with happy childhood memories.
Losing
themselves in a world where they know nothing about each other, Sky and Dylan
begin a summer romance that soon heats up their rainy English summer.
Fantasies
can’t last forever and when reality crashes the party, Sky isn’t sure she wants
to be more than his ‘summer Sky’ but Dylan doesn’t want to let her go.
Returning
to the real world and public scrutiny isn’t their only problem. Blue Phoenix
bass player, Jem Jones, has a reason for wanting Sky out of Dylan’s life, and
is determined to come between them. Some things won’t stay hidden, even when
they’re paid to ‘go away’.
Summer
Sky is a quirky romance where occasionally more than the bacon sizzles. This is
the first in the new ‘Blue Phoenix’ series of contemporary rock star romances.
Please
note: this is a romance with a rock star hero, and not an erotic rock star
book!
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LORIE'S REVIEW
Hot
rock star with washboard abs, bacon (lots of bacon), and a sassy sarcastic
heroine... I couldn't have asked for more!!!
(*Sigh*)
I love this book! Summer Sky is sweet, sexy, frustrating, and heart melting all
at the same time. It’s one of those books that’s just simply wonderful. I swear
I had a smile on my face the entire time I was reading.... well until the last
page that is.
“I’ll
give you my heart to take care of, if you’ll give me yours to mend.” – Dylan
The
laughs began within a few pages and I was hooked. This is one of those stories
that is so sweet and genuine, you wish you were the heroine. I absolutely adore
Sky. She has such a sarcastic, sassy, and funny mouth on her. She’s real and
genuine and doesn’t put up with any of Dylan’s crap. And, Dylan…….. well, he
just says the most heart melting things. Ugh… I love that he wants Sky to be
more than just his “summer Sky”. He wants real and genuine, and that’s exactly
what he finds in Sky.
So
what’s the short and sweet????? It’s a great story about a girl that falls in
love with a famous rock star having never known who he even was in the first
place. The book is divided into part 1 and part 2. Part 1 my heart was happy
and melting. Part 2 not so much... it was more like hurting. Even so, I cannot
wait for the next book to see what happens to Dylan and Sky!
4.5
STARS!!!
TEASERS
EXCERPT
"A
couple of days ago, I got up and thought 'fuck this'. So I cut my hair and
left."
Forgetting
myself, I reach a hand and touch the short hair above his ear. "You had long
hair?"
My
hand slides across Dylan's face as he turns to look at me, his cheek smooth
above his stubbled jaw. "For the last eight years, yeah. I'll show you a
picture sometime. You might recognise me then."
"That's
a long time. It must be weird looking in the mirror and not recognising
yourself."
"I
didn't recognise myself for a long time even before I cut my hair." He
picks at his food and looks back to the sea.
Despite
avoiding talking about each other’s lives, things slip in. Like this
explanation for the tightly wound Dylan I met a few days ago.
"Maybe
I should cut mine, I can recreate myself too. This is the longest my hair's
been for a few years."
Dylan
strokes my fringe from my face, fingers trailing across my forehead. The touch
ignites nerve-endings across my face. "I'm sure you'll look great whatever
you decide to do with your hair."
"Grant
said girls with short hair don't look right."
"Who's
Grant?"
I
clamp a hand over my mouth. Real life things. Secrets. "Just some dickhead
who used to be my boyfriend."
"I
wouldn't think you were the kind of girl to date dickheads."
I
huff. "Yeah, some of them slip through the net and I don't realise until
it's too late."
"How
can it be too late? You weren't married, were you?"
I
splutter Fanta over my cooling chips. "Hell, no."
"Then
what?"
"Once
you fall in love, it's harder to let go; even with dickheads."
"But
you let go? Is that why you're here?"
This
isn't fair. He's poking at what I came to escape from - letting things into our
bubble world. I set the meal onto the sand next to me. "I don't want to
talk about this."
Dylan’s
scrutiny traces a pattern over my face, leaving a trail of heat. How does he do
that?
"Such
a shame I'm a dickhead," he says in a low voice.
"I'm
sure you can't help it. Part of the Y chromosome disability,
unfortunately," I say lightly.
Reaching
out, he brushes salt from my lips. An embarrassing sound escapes my throat as
he rubs the rough fingertip along my lips.
"Remember
what I said about your sarcastic mouth?" he asks.
Of
course, I remember, how am I going to forget? But all I can do is stare back
like some wide-eyed idiot and nod.
He
removes his finger and licks the salt off the tip; the move is impossibly sexy
and fires arousal through me.
"I
know kissing you is the wrong thing to do to you, but I'm starting to get
obsessed."
My
brain struggles to keep up. "Wrong?" I ask.
"When
you look at me the way you do, I love and hate it at the same time. When you
don't look at me the way I want you to, that's even worse. Every funny thing
you say, every time you blush, even just being in the same room fills me with
an urge to kiss you. I don't understand, because this isn’t what I want."
"That
makes no sense."
"It
doesn't, does it? But nothing in my life makes sense to me.” He moves the fish
and chips from his lap onto the sand.
Excruciatingly
slowly, Dylan leans towards me. My heart somersaults and cheerleads in my chest
as his mouth approaches mine.
"So
about kissing your sarcastic mouth...?"
The
words are spoken millimetres from my lips and as his mouth moves, his lips
touch mine. He's good at this.
"Yes."
"Yes,
you remember, or yes, you've changed your mind and want me to kiss you?"
Dylan rubs his cool nose along my cheek towards my ear.
Lisa
is an author of new adult romance and writes both paranormal and contemporary,
often with a side of snark. In between running a business, looking after her
family and writing, Lisa sometimes finds spare time to do other things. This
often involves swapping her book worlds for gaming worlds. She even leaves the
house occasionally. Lisa loves all things from the Whedonverse and preferred
vampires before they sparkled.
Lisa
has four books published: the ‘Butterfly Days’ series, and two in her urban
fantasy series Soul Ties. She is currently working on a new contemporary
romance series Blue Phoenix and the first book, Summer Sky is due for release
in April. Lisa is originally from the UK but moved to Australia in 2001 and now
lives in Perth in Western Australia with her husband, three children and dog.
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