Foxylutely Books!: Blog Tour and Review - Escaping Me by Cat Mason

Monday, 10 February 2014

Blog Tour and Review - Escaping Me by Cat Mason

Title: Escaping Me (Shaft on Tour Series)

Author: Cat Mason

Genre: Adult Romance

Publication Date: December 20, 2013

Tour Host: Dreams Come True Promotions

Daisy Shayne has a list. Her life has been planned out on a legal pad that she carries in her purse since she was sixteen years old. Now her list is nearly complete, she is about to marry her fiancé Landon, start her new job in the fall and be completely settled. Or is she? Landon is going on tour with his brother Grayson’s band for the next six months as the assistant to the new manager, Tad and is bringing her with him as an extra pair of hands to help the band.

Daisy is now stuck on a crowded tour bus with six men when her plans start blowing up in her face. Things are not what they seem and nothing is making sense. Landon is pushing her away and Grayson is pulling her close. Daisy feels pulled to Grayson which doesn’t go unnoticed by him. Amused and unable to control himself around her Gray decides to hit on her the first moment he sees her. Gray’s new obsession is Daisy, who he deems his own little Widlflower even after he finds out she is to be his sister-in-law. Whatever it is about her he can’t help himself. He is desperate just to be near her.

Temptation, betrayal, and lies on top of booze, tattoos, sex, laughs and love. While making friends and traveling the country Daisy must come to terms with what she wants in life. All while she learns to deal with the rough and rowdy of taking Shaft on Tour. It’s going to be a long hard ride.

***This book is not a normal romance. Things happen fast and with no*** regret. Rockers and all. There are M/F scenes of course but there is M/F/M, hints of M/F/F, possibly a little M/M and plenty of vibrator discussion.

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19301892-escaping-me?from_search=true

My rating = 4.5 stars (rounded up)

*ARC supplied by the author in exchange for my honest review

This is the first book I have read by this author and I was not disappointed, it was highly entertaining, fabulously sexy and absolutely hilarious!

Daisy Shayne has a life plan which she meticulously adheres to from her list she has made. Each item so far has been ticked off with the next one being to marry her fiancé Landon but this will be after a last hurrah over the summer. Landon has been asked by his step brother, Grayson, to assist the management of Shaft, his band, with their tour. Landon had one request in that Daisy accompanies him, which she is giddy to do.

Landon isn’t close to his step brother so it is with some trepidation he accepts and Daisy kind of understands his brash behaviour just before they go to meet the band at a bar they are performing at. It is at this bar that Daisy finds herself alone at the table when a hot and extremely sexy guy tries to chat her up when he sits down next to her and runs his hand up her leg. Both of them then get the shock when Landon comes back and Daisy finds out the sexy ass is none other than Landon’s brother Grayson! However both Daisy and Gray know something just happened but each try to bury that thought. It doesn’t stop Gray giving her the sexy smoulder as he struts his stuff on stage though.

What’s a girl to do when she finds herself sharing a tour bus with six sexy men? This isn’t helped by Landon’s strange behaviour increasing, Tad the manager’s hostility and Gray’s intensity for her. The book then takes us through the changing relationships Daisy has with Landon pushing her away and Gray pulling her in. What a delish quandary to be in!

At first this book seemed a little hyper in the first 15% or so and had me wanting to slow it down a touch. I could tell by the style that this author is a fan of Kendall Grey (me too!) as it very much reminded me of the Killer Buzz Floats books (they even get a mention) I knew then that I was in for a whole lot of smut and hilarity, which I got.

I loved the secondary characters and Hunter (sometimes known to be spelt with a C ha ha) had me in stitches with his sexual innuendos and totally off the charts behaviour. He was so up for any challenge thrown at him (usually by Daisy) and he just became the lovable rogue of the book. Aiden and Camaron were so intense to read and I kept thinking they need their own story which I think they will be. As for Henry, the band’s ‘go to’ man – whoo hoo he was just smoking hot!

The best part was obviously the relationship development of Daisy with Gray. He started at first coming across as a total prick but then he let the reader in and he became an absolute sweetheart. But oh so darn sexy with his abs and tats. I loved how he encouraged Daisy to live for today, forget about her life’s plan and just have fun.

It was a nice kick to add the reason for Landon’s change in behaviour but the way Daisy kept having it thrown in her face each time was shocking. Tad was an evil mo-fo. However I liked how all sexual preferences were included from straight up m/f to m/m and even touching on m/f/m. As a cross genre reader I liked that inclusion.

This book has everything to entice the reader in, it certainly kept me in throes of hilarity, shocked the pants off me but mainly gave a good dose of erotic romance. Let’s not forget about the rock stars, the abs and the tattoos. Rockers and muscles and tats, oh my! It’s a keeper. Looking forward to the next book.

Introduction

Daisy’s fall

How did this happen to me? Just months ago I was in a loving, committed relationship with a man who I believed adored me. Nothing was standing in our way of being married and having the white picket fence, babies and all the happiness I could stand. Now I sit here on the edge of a bed in a shitty tour bus crying into my hands while a dozen little white sticks lie all over the floor laughing at me proving that I am a total fuck up.

The diamond on my hand does nothing but make me angry as it glistens, wet with my tears. I’ve screwed everything up. I let myself believe for a while that I could have a happy ever after. I let myself think that I was worthy of something as precious as love. Instead, I have ruined at least four lives in the ashes of my monumental lapse of rational thinking.

I always think things through. Daisy Shayne never jumps without looking where she would land. I had a plan. I mean literally, I write the shit down and check it off as I complete it. I was nothing if not meticulous in my calculating of my life this far.

My parents planned nothing. I watched them constantly bailing water from the boat, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul and getting nowhere in life because of not having a plan. Well I had a plan damn it! Now as I look at my list all I want to do is jump from my boat and let myself drown. It would be so much easier than to face what is coming when those bus doors open and my life comes to an end. There is no hiding this. There is no fixing the situation. It’s going to destroy everyone involved, including myself in the process…

Wait! I am getting too far ahead of myself. You need for me to start from the beginning to get the full picture here. You need to know everything and then you will understand.

Cat Mason is thirty years old and a mother to three children. She was born and raised in Granite City, Illinois which is just across the Mississippi river from St. Louis, Missouri. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband and children. Previously publishing Contemporary Romance under her real name, Amy Cox until she decided to lose the filter and let it all hang out. When she isn’t writing, she is reading or spending time with her friends and family.