• #4.7 in the #StageDive Series
• #1001DarkNights Series
(Can totally be read as a standalone novella - BUT Mal is making a hilarious cameo!)
4.25 Stars!
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kylie Scott comes a new story in her Stage Dive series…
There’s always the one that got away. Or kicked you out...
The new darling of rock n’ roll, Adam Dillon, is ready to show his ex-girlfriend, Jill Schwartz, what a mistake she made kicking him to the curb. So maybe he wasn’t the best of boyfriends. Writing great songs and climbing to the top of the charts isn’t easy. Only problem is, he's fast finding out that success isn't everything.
**Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do.**
We're back in Portland - in the apartment building where most of the Stage Dive boys and girls live.
And new rock star Adam lives here too.
Oh Mal - how we missed you!!! He's the best thing about any and all Stage Dive books - sorry other guys and girls, but Mal is the greatest. Idiot. Mostly. But still - I just adore him.
I just copied these ↑ last few lines from my previous reviews - because it's still the truth! Mal was again the secret star in this novella! He's just adorable and silly and ridiculous! I love him!
But I also adored Adam and Jill. They so obviously belong together!
This short novella was very funny, sparky, sexy, adorable ... and I loved reading it - I just loved being back in the Stage Dive world for a little while!
Woot woot! Happy dance! Daggy dance! Heck, anything that can show my excitement at being back in the Stage Dive world!
I love these 1001 Nights stories. I love that I get a bit more of the Stage Dive family (let's be honest, any slice of Mal that I can get, I will take) however I love that we are introduced to the extended family of the Stage Dive world, and that I can read these as stand alones if I wanted to.
We have met Adam in passing in previous books, but it was great to get to know him better.
♥ EXCERPT ♥
“No,” said the bodyguard.
“But—”
“Miss, do you have any idea how many people try to get
backstage by claiming they have some sort of relationship with Mr. Dillon?”
Face a careful blank, the man in the slick black suit stared down at me. He had
a point. I’d pushed through a crush of fans, getting my toes stomped on several
times, along with taking an elbow to the kidney, just to talk to this guy. God
only knew what it took to get near the star of the show.
“I’d imagine a lot,” I yelled back at him. Necessary given
the volume of the music filling the space. “The difference here is I’m not
lying.”
“But since everyone says that, you can see from my
perspective how that’s not actually a point of difference.”
Adam Dillon, rock star extraordinaire, gyrated his slim
denim-clad hips like an Alt-Rock Elvis on the nearby stage. He pouted and
crooned about the woman who’d done him wrong. Me. That’s right, I was the big
bad ex who’d broken him and woke him to the dangers of love. Or so the song
said.
The song lied and then some.
According to the lyrics he was currently wailing, I’d ground
his heart beneath my five-inch heels before blowing him a kiss goodbye. From
memory, there’d been a lot of shouting, but no blowing of kisses. And having
just kicked off the flats I wore for work, I’d been barefoot, my legs and back
aching. No way had I been strutting around in stilettos. Home from a hard day
at the hair salon, I’d returned to find Adam on the couch. The same place he’d
been when I’d left for work approximately eleven hours earlier. The same place
he’d been for what felt like months as I worked my ass off to pay the rent.
That’s when all hell broke loose. However, it wasn’t the only issue that had
caused our relationship to bomb. Nothing’s ever simple.
But back to the here and now. I grabbed the slip of paper
out of my front pocket, holding it up for his perusal. “My name is Jill
Schwartz. How many of those people claiming to know him have one of these?”
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