4.25 stars but I'll round it up to 5 stars cause this deserves more hype
Oh! My Heart ❤️
This is absolutely beautiful
Why doesn't it have more ratings???????

It's been a long, loooong, loooooong time since I've read a decent Contemporary Romance that focuses on the plot, story, and characters more than the smut and spice and cliched tropes.

⚜ rating: 4.25 🌟🌟🌟🌟 🔅
⚜Genre: Contemporary Romance
⚜Theme: Second-Chance Rock Star Romance
⚜Targeted audience: Adults
⚜Characters: Hawk, Wren
⚜Representation: non
⚜Pace: medium
⚜TW: abandonment, talk of abortion, drugging for rape
⚜ tropes: secret baby, manipulation, second chance, OW drama
⚜ POV: mostly Hawk then Wren - first person
⚜ spice 🌶🌶 🌶
⚜standalone: yes
⚜Ending: HEA
⚜Book read: KU

The story itself is not something new. A rockstar meets one of his fans who truly understands him. They have a passionate night. She disappears on him and turns out pregnant. Outer forces keep them apart. Fast forward 15 years later, he is going through a mental crisis, discovers he has a daughter and wants back in.

But it was the way that it was written and the delivery of the plot that captured me.

1- Let's talk names
Hawk, weird name usually given to MC characters. However, it works beautifully here considering the band is called Black Kite which is a type of hawks


Wren, the FMC, has a name that is related to another bird


2- Their first meeting was so full of chemistry it was explosive. They talk and share and eventhough Hawk was under the influence, you could feel that these two were meant to each other.

3- Wren did not keep her pregnancy (which you learn how it came to be through a plot twist at the end) hidden from Hawk. She tries everything. But Victoria, the OW, stands in the way.

4- Their daughter, Cooper, is smart and perceptive

5- I loved that Hawk stayed mostly celibate for 15 years after that night while Wren explored and tried.

6- I do not think Hawk had any reason to grovel since the betrayal was from a third party that affected both him and Wren. Nevertheless, the minute he found about Wren and Cooper he was all about them.

What I did not like, and this did not take much from the enjoyment, is how easy Wren's choices. Why would you go back to work and raise your kid in a town that clearly hates you? you are putting your child for bullying.
As much as Wren pushed herself to fight for her kid, she was spineless to fight for herself and accepted all the bullying from Denise.
She was so fast to fall back into Hawk's arms, it showed desperation.

As much as I liked Cooper, I do not like the "use of a child to push the absent father's presence in their life". Cooper taking out her anger on her mother for Hawk leaving is unjustifiable. I would have slapped the shit out of my kid if they talked to me like that.

I have to say one more thing though that if this is really what happens behind the scenes of the Rich and Famous, then I am happy with my mediocre life. It is vile, and immoral, and everyone is selfish.
I do not understand the concept of "Free speech press" in the West. How can you give the paparazzi free rein to stalk, harass, lie, manipulate, and provoke all in the name of nailing a hit news!!!
That scene where a reporter purposely provokes Hawk by bringing up his mother's condition so Hawk would punch him then the reporter sues to send HIS KID TO COLLEGE!!! this is not fiction people, it happens in real life. DISGUSTING.

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