5 Smooches

Synopsis

Cole Brandt was the self-centered and philandering lead singer for Generation Rejects

Vivian Baily was a flaky, attention seeking drama queen.

Apart they were challenging…together they were complete and total chaos.

Cole and Vivian were two people who should never have been together.

Yet they crashed into each other at every turn.

Their relationship was anything but stable.  But it was passionate. It was messy. It was hopelessly seductive. And it might possibly drive them both insane.

They fought.  They made up.  They screamed.  They made love.

They hated and they loved in equal measure.

And now that Generation Rejects are starting to hit it big and the band is on the road, temptation and massive egos could very well spell the end of their roller coaster.

If only they could stay away from each other.

But Vivian has finally reached her breaking point.  Tired of their endless cycle, she is ready to say goodbye to Cole for good.

Yet Cole isn’t one to go away quietly.  Particularly when he is starting to realize exactly what he stands to lose if Vivian walks away.

As his world begins to turn upside down, Cole realizes that the one person who can hold him together is the girl who may no longer want him.

Love can be a comedy of errors, particularly for two people who never seem to get the timing right.

And In the crazy world of rock and roll, the hardest lessons to learn just might be the ones with the sweetest rewards.

Review

“I slept. I woke up. I ate. I sang. I fucked. That was my life.”

Let’s start by saying that I am a huge fan of A. Meredith Walters Bad Rep series and for me personally this book was my favorite. There is nothing I love more than a bad boy rocker except for a bad boy rocker who secretly is dying to be reformed. Cole and Vivian have had amazing chemistry since we first met them and found out they were “fuck buddies”

“Cole was like a drug that I couldn’t stay away from. And no matter how many times he upset me. No matter how much he made me hate and depise him, the moment he touched me, it became dangerously easy to lose good sense.”

I was not sure what I was getting into with this book. I went into this book not having the highest hope that I would love the player and the woman who let him have her when they were together and knew he was with others when they were apart. That being said, Cole and Vivian’s story is one I am glad I did not miss. It was full of passion, angst, humor and drama. I feel like I watched them grow and learn together (and even more so when they were apart.)

“Vivian’s tits were amazing. I loved them. I worshipped them. I thought about starting a religion around them.”

Both of these characters grew up tremendously in this book. Cole went from being the ultimate ass, kissing another girl in front of Vi just to get her worked up, to someone who is trying to come to terms with what really is important in life. As for Vivian, she went from a girl who could have been confused with a doormat, letting him have her whenever he wanted because her desire for him was so strong she couldn’t say no, to a woman who was willing to walk away from the person she had felt the strongest connection to because it was what was best for her.

“And if I had to smack a bitch for looking at him, then so be it. Because that’s how we rolled. One piece of crazy at a time.”

I had no doubt that I would love the way A. Meredith would tell this story but I was blind sighted by how much I fell for the characters. I started this book the minute it appeared on my kindle and I never put it down until I reached the last page. As always with this series, I was drawn to the drama but stuck around for the wit! Writing convincingly funny humor is not easy and this book had me sending quotes to my friends constantly just because I wanted someone to laugh with. I totally believe that this book was amazing and hope all ya’ll out there give it and the other books in the Bad Rep series!

“She might as well give up if she thought that would get any sort of reaction. Russell the Love Muscle wasn’t interested in her.”

~miranda