Rock by J. A. Huss Published by Self-Published on March 7th 2016
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Format: audiobook
Source: Giveaway Win
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My American Dream just shattered and they think I did it on purpose. They have sentenced me to hell by sending me back to the last place I want to be. They have people watching me twenty-four-seven. They want the truth about how my band mates died, and they’re going to get it, no matter what.
No matter how hard I fight. No matter how many times I deny it. No matter what it takes, the truth is going to catch up with me.
I am Rowan Kyle Saber. I am RK. I am Rock. Ex-lead-singer for Son of a Jack. Ex-addict, ex-friend, ex-boyfriend, ex-brother… and presently in denial.
Welcome to Grand Lake, Colorado, where all my nightmares started. Welcome to the past. Welcome to the present. Welcome to RK’s fucked up life.
The only thing holding me together is her. But even that might be a lie.
Liezel’s Thoughts:
“Rock” is about this singer/songwriter named RK who is forced to return “home” to Grand Lakes, Colorado. “Home” is normally that one place that gives you peace but it is the complete opposite for RK. At first, it is unclear how he ends up somewhere that he detests so much and I loved how JA Huss kept me speculating.
As a matter of fact, she keeps you guessing almost all throughout the entire book. Once you have one element figured out she drops another shocking revelation. The twists and turns weren’t the only thing that I enjoyed about the book…I appreciated how JA Huss gave us so much insight from a singer/songwriter’s point of view. It was detailed enough that it had me wondering if the author had a background in music.
The story isn’t lacking in the romance department either. While the (hate) fucking, in the beginning, was in my opinion absolutely SENSATIONAL it was that soul-deep connection between the main couple that had me completely moved. RK was lost but because this profound love he found his way. It doesn’t get any more perfect than that!
The bottom line is, every book I’ve read by JA Huss is simply amazing. Any book written by her and then narrated by Sebastian York is even better! There’s just something about her words combined with his voice that gets me every single time! If you asked me to describe it in one word, it would be “HYPNOTIZING”.
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About J. A. Huss
After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.
So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.
She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.
