The Rocker That Holds Me - Terri Anne Browning

Read March 2013

Contemporary, m/f

Rating = 5 + stars

This novella was a big surprise for me and amazingly brilliant! I had seen good reviews and how people wanted it to be longer, blah blah blah. But then having read the blurb I was a little “ick” and had therefore put off reading it. After a shove from a bookie pimp who knows my kink well, I decided to read the first page. I was there two hours later completely hooked.

The story centres on Ember and her four protectors who are in a band – Demons Wings. Ember is ten years younger than Nik, Jesse, Drake and Shane but they took her under their “Demon’s” wing from when she was seven and living in a trailer park with her drug addict mother. They take care of her after every beating her deadbeat mother gives her and make sure she is not left her to fend for herself. At that time the band was just getting set up but eventually made the big time. When Ember’s mother dies, she goes on the road with the band where she has been ever since. Skip forward a few years and Ember is now in her early twenties and taking care of the band’s every need – be that chucking out the skank women after a night of ...well you know what, to making sure that they made the stage each night.

Then Ember takes ill and the result is a shocker for them all.

My initial “ick” of Ember taking up with one of the band after they had kind of brought her up was quickly washed away and that was down to the way the author handled it. Brilliantly. I instantly fell for these guys and their lifestyle. They each, individually, had their own endearing quirks that just grabbed you. But for me it was Nik. Gorgeous lead singer but so whoa whoop-whoop!

A wonderful quick read that totally brightened up one gloomy Saturday morning for me. A complete package of passion and rawk! A serious contender for novella of the year. Definitely recommend you grab this little beauty and escape into the world of Demon’s Wing. Fab-u-lous!