4 Smooches!

Synopsis

One night changed her life…
Bestselling author Amelia Greyson has grown up in the music industry and isn’t the slightest bit fazed by fame or celebrities. However, when she attends a Bastards and Dangerous concert with her best friend Belle, her world shifts on its axis.
Double trouble…
Sawyer and Noah Weston are the front men of BAD. They’re fraternal twins and sexy as sin. When they hear the author of The O Factor is in their green room, they’re intrigued. She’s just the person they need to write their farewell story. The brothers offer Amelia the opportunity of a lifetime, which she reluctantly accepts.
Three hearts…
Noah is sweet and considerate, working hard to make Amelia feel at home on the road. Unfortunately, the closer they get, the more obnoxious Sawyer becomes. Sawyer is arrogant and distant and he wants Amelia, even though she’s not his for the taking. Only during stolen moments does Sawyer show her who he really is.
Can Amelia maintain a safe distance from Sawyer and keep her heart intact? Or will she shatter Noah’s heart by giving hers to his brother instead?
Just an Illusion – Side A is the first book in The Illusion Series

REVIEW

This is the first book in D. Kelly’s Illusion series, and the first time I’m reading this author. I’m going to admit that I went into this book very uncertainly. I read the blurb, and it sounded like this would be a gut-wrenching love triangle. Not my favorite thing at all. Couple that with the fact that this book closed on an enormous (and unanticipated!) cliffhanger – another thing I am not at all a fan of – and for me, that’s a recipe for guaranteed frustration.

Then I read the prologue. It was very intriguing and I can admit I was rethinking my initial impression and diligently trying to approach it with an open mind, despite the two strikes it already had against it. There was a lot going on here, and all of it was interesting. This was no simple rock star romance.

The premise was fresh – Amelia, a best-selling indie romance author who was raised in the music industry and is almost unimpressed by the band’s fame, hits the road with Bastards and Dangerous on their farewell tour as the biographer of the twin brother front-men. Noah and Sawyer are both very sexy, but they’re also night and day opposites and appeal to Amelia in entirely different ways. Noah is sweet, kind and swoony, and Sawyer is cocky, closed-off and broody, and Amelia can’t help being drawn to both. The characters were all well fleshed out and had stories and romances of their own going on in the background, adding dimension and richness to the story. Not to mention that the plot had some surprising twists and turns that I totally didn’t see coming.

I enjoyed this book—despite being annoyed by the huge honking cliffhanger. I’m anticipating the next book, Just an Illusion – Side B, especially with the way this was left. Well-written, well thought out and nicely plotted, this book took me by surprised and I’m definitely looking forward to finding out where all of this is going. D. Kelly’s Just an Illusion – Side A gets 4 smooches from me!

~ Danielle Palumbo

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