Stay Until We Break by Mercy Brown Review
4 Smooches
Synopsis
What happens on the road stays on the road in the latest New Adult novel from the author of Loud Is How I Love You.
Twenty-one-year-old Sonia Grant, a business major, has big plans for a career in the music industry. So when she’s offered the job of tour manager for her best friend’s band, she jumps at the chance for some real life experience. When her number one crush, bassist Cole McCormack, jumps her the first night on tour, she hopes she’s in for three weeks of some hot backstage action, too. But Cole turns out to have more up his sleeve than she or anyone realized.
Nobody knows that Cole is on the road to party like a rock star one last time before quitting his dream to take a more practical job and settle down. What he hadn’t planned was to fall in love with a girl he believes is out of his league. Will Cole play out the rock star fantasy he thinks Sonia wants from him, or tell her the truth and take the chance that she’ll either break his heart or make an even bigger dream come true?
Review
‘Because if my future with this girl is going to be as a memory, it’s going to be a good one.’
Stay Until We Break is book 2 in the Hub City Series by Mercy Brown and I for one really enjoyed it. I actually enjoyed this book more than the first in the series, Loud Is How I Love You. I was surprised and excited to see the twist and turns that this story took and Cole had my heart swooning and he had me constantly fanning myself when his dirty talk started!
‘Damn his breath on my ear. Damn him smelling so good in broad daylight, it’s practically indecent.’
Defying her mother’s wishes Sonia gives up a career as a classical musician to become the tour manager for her best friend’s band SAFE. She has never felt more at home and more herself and her unrelenting crush on the tour’s bassist, Cole, only adds to the excitement of it all. Cole is living it up on the tour and loving every minute (esp. the minutes he gets to spend with the manger, Sonia.) he knows something the others don’t . . . that once the tour is over he has to return home and get a real job to help support his family. As much as he wants to stick to the end with a band he cannot turn his back on his responsibilities. He is living each day on the tour and with Sonia to the fullest because he knows in just a short amount of time it will all end.
‘Appreciate the moment and then let it go, because that’s all it is. A moment. Not real life.’
While rocker books as a whole still don’t fascinate me as they do others I did really enjoy the dynamic and give and take of Cole and Sonia. I love that he called her Sunshine and that his desire and need for her never waivers. There is a LOT of music related aspects involved in this book, details about the shows, songs and tour life in general. They were don’t exquisitely and anyone who loves to read about rockers, music and the rock scene in the 90s will love it. It is clear that being involved in the indie rock world was a passion for the author. It is just not a passion of mine. Still none of this affected my love for the love story between Sonia and Cole and I will for sure be reading more from them
~miranda
