{"id":34650,"date":"2018-07-18T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=34650"},"modified":"2018-07-18T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:56:47","slug":"arc-review-excerpt-rock-legend-nothing-but-trouble-2-by-tara-leigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=34650","title":{"rendered":"ARC Review & Excerpt: Rock Legend (Nothing But Trouble, #2) by Tara Leigh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About the Book<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I\u2019m no Prince Charming.<\/p>\n

Most people know me as the drummer for Nothing but Trouble. Depending who you ask, I\u2019m also a playboy, a loner, the life of the party, a screw-up, or according to my fans, \u201cThe Sexiest Rock Star on the Planet.\u201d Apparently, I\u2019m a legend.<\/p>\n

Am I surprised? Hell, no. It\u2019s a reputation I\u2019ve earned behind my drum kit and<\/i> behind closed doors. No one thought foster kid Landon Cox would become famous. Infamous, maybe. Notorious, probably. But successful? Never. No one except Piper Hastings. But I had to make a choice: my woman or my career. I picked fame and fortune . . . and spent every damn day since pretending I don\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n

Now fate\u2019s dropped Piper back into my life. I want to believe it\u2019s a second chance for me\u2014for us<\/i>. But while I can give her a few great nights, I can\u2019t give Piper a future.<\/p>\n

Because there\u2019s a difference between a legend and a fairy tale . . .<\/p>\n

Only one of them ends happily ever after.<\/p>\n

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Review<\/b><\/h4>\n

4.5 stars!<\/b><\/p>\n

After falling madly in love with the first book in this series, Rock King<\/a>, I had high expectations for this one, and it did not let me down! A second-chance rockstar romance that is sweet, intense and passionate with a tortured hero and a strong yet vulnerable heroine, this book had all the feels, and I was completely sucked in from start to finish. I loved it!<\/p>\n

Landon is the drummer of rock band Nothing But Trouble, but he\u2019s just as well known for his legendary skills between the sheets. Considered the sexiest man in rock, he is a legendary playboy whose life is nothing but women, partying and music, but he is hiding a painful past and he\u2019s about to come face to face with one of the biggest parts of it.<\/p>\n

Piper works in PR for the firm that handles the band\u2019s management. She has managed to stay in the background for the last few years, hiding the fact that once upon a time, she and Landon were each other\u2019s whole worlds. It\u2019s been six years since he left her without a word and she still carries a lot of pain from his abandonment. But when they meet up once again, all of those feelings are uncovered and the feels are unleashed!<\/p>\n

I walked away without a backward glance, so afraid that if I turned around, even for just a split second, I\u2019d be incapable of leaving her at all. Ever.
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OMG, I love a second chance romance, and Landon and Piper\u2019s reunion is absolutely fantastic! Full of intensity, emotion and sizzling chemistry, you can feel everything that is between them, and I loved them together! Though so much has happened since they last saw each other, neither of them can fight their attraction, and their passion for each other is explosive, as is their unreserved need to be together.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because I had reasons for leaving you before doesn\u2019t mean that it wasn\u2019t a goddamn mistake. One I\u2019m never making again, you hear me? \u2026 Wasted six years without you, I don\u2019t want to waste another hour.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the pain of their pasts and have left their mark on both of them. Landon in particular has been through so much, and he\u2019s been left damaged and scarred. I could feel his pain, and my heart ached for him! And Piper has her own issues that she\u2019s dealing with. They have a difficult journey ahead of them with twists and turns and more heartache, and I could not put this book down as it all played out.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus Christ, Pippa. Do you have any idea what you do to me? You completely wrecked me. The mess I\u2019ve made of my life, you make me want to fix it. You make me think I <\/i>can\/i> fix it. but more than anything else \u2013 when I\u2019m with you, I want to fucking live. Just take everything I can out of this one shot we\u2019re all given. And I want to rock the shit out of it. Not just on stage or in a music studio. But with you. Anywhere and everywhere\u2026with you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yes! The romance! It\u2019s sweet, super sexy and beautifully emotional. They have to work hard for their happy ending, but they get it, and I had tears in my eyes as it all happened for them \u2013 topped off with an absolutely gorgeous epilogue!<\/p>\n

\u201cYou deserve the world, Landon Cox.\u201d
\nHe touched his forehead to mine, his breath ghosting across my lips. \u201cYou are my world, Piper Hastings.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I loved this book. It completely sucked me in, and I fell I love with these characters and their beautifully emotional story.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeen waiting my whole life for one person, Piper. You. I love you, and I\u2019m not letting you go, ever again.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book ties in really nicely as part of the Nothing But Trouble<\/i> series, though you could read it as a standalone \u2013 but Rock King<\/i> is a fantastic read and you wouldn\u2019t want to miss out on that one! And with the next book hinted at in this one, I am so excited for this series to continue.<\/p>\n

A fantastic read!<\/p>\n

4.5 stars.<\/p>\n

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Nothing But Trouble<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Rock King (#1)<\/strong> (Shane & Delaney)
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Rock Legend (#2)<\/strong> (Landon\u00a0 & Piper)
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Rock Rebel (#3)<\/strong> (Dax & Verity)
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To be annouced (#4)<\/strong> (Jet & Quinn)
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Excerpt<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Watching Landon Cox on stage from forty feet away had been bad enough. But here, now, close enough to touch, I was jolted by the power of his presence.<\/p>\n

Still shirtless and sweating after an intense performance, my eyes danced over the rippling muscles rising from beneath the inked skin of Landon\u2019s naked torso, his broad shoulders tapering to slim hips, perfect V cuts forming an arrow pointing south.<\/p>\n

Vitality seeping from every pore.<\/p>\n

My gaze was drawn inexorably upward. Blond hair a damp mess, the faintest trace of stubble darkening a jawline that could have been cut from marble. A face so symmetrical, so severely beautiful, it would take even the most talented sculptor a lifetime to get right.<\/p>\n

Landon Cox was a fantasy in the flesh.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d imagined this very moment dozens\u2014no, hundreds\u2014of times. But now that the moment was here, Landon and I, alone in a room again after all these years, I had nothing<\/i>.<\/p>\n

In a blink, Landon\u2019s expression wavered. His winged brows, three shades darker than the hair sweeping across his forehead, pulled together. Eyes like hot coals burning into me.<\/p>\n

As if the sight of me caused him pain.<\/p>\n

I tore my gaze away from his face, but it only landed on the swaths of ink covering his chest and extending over his arms. My mouth watered at the sight. I wanted to trace every tattoo with my tongue, every slash and swirl and stripe. After six years, how would Landon taste?<\/p>\n

Like regret, I realized with a sickening thud. Because regret was all that remained of what we\u2019d once shared.<\/p>\n

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About the Author<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Tara Leigh attended Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia Business School in New York, and worked on Wall Street and Main Street before \u201cretiring\u201d to become a wife and mother. When the people in her head became just as real as the people in her life, she decided to put their stories on paper. Tara currently lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut with her husband, children and fur-baby, Pixie.<\/p>\n

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