HARD LESSON (Touring with the Band #1) by Savannah Skye-a review

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About the book: Release Date December 22, 2016

Rock star Dev Lachlan loves the ladies and, even better? The ladies love him. He’s got it all. Money pouring in, and a super hot band on the rise. Everything is coming up roses and he’s all about paying it forward. So when his best friend and bandmate’s younger sister asks him for a favor, he doesn’t hesitate. Until he realizes what she’s asking for. She wants him to teach her how to bring a man to his knees. He wants to show her—damn, does he want to show her—but something tells him one taste of Cheri won’t be enough. But more would surely tear the band apart…

Cheri Galveston has loved Dev since the day he taught her how to ride a bike fifteen years ago. He was a great teacher then, and she can only hope he’s an even better one now. She can’t bring herself to be with anyone else and, just maybe, if she can get rid of this pesky virginity with him, she can move on and find a man who appreciates her. But will having Dev finally set her free, or has she just jumped from the pan into the fire?

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REVIEW: HARD LESSON is the first installment in Savannah Skye’s contemporary, adult TOURING WITH THE BAND erotic, rock band romance series focusing on the members of the rock ban Sub-Zero. This is lead singer Dev Lachlan, and the band’s social media guru Cheri ‘Bug’ Galveson.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Dev and Cheri) HARD LESSON is a friends to lovers story line focusing on Sub –Zero’s leading singer twenty eight year old Dev Lachlan, and twenty three year old Cheri Galveson. Dev, Cheri and her brother Rory have been friends most of their lives, and now that the band has hit the big time, there is little time for personal relationships or falling in love…except….Cheri has loved her brother’s best friend Dev Lachlan since she was eight years old, and Dev still sees Cheri as his best friend’s little sister. Tired of watching from the sidelines Cheri makes Dev an offer he should have refused-teach her how to seduce a man, and then walk away at the end of the tour. What ensues is the building relationship between Dev and Cheri, and the potential for fall out when their affair is revealed.

The relationship between Cheri and Dev is one of mutual attraction but Dev has always looked at Cheri as Rory’s little sister but Cheri is no longer the girl that constantly followed the band around-she is now a woman who wants what other women want –Dev Lachlan. Dev is a bit of a manwhore; a different woman in bed every night but there is one woman that is willing to offer more than a one night stand. The $ex scenes are intimate, intense and seductive.

We are introduced to the members of the band and their crew: Cheri’s older brother, Sub-Zero’s drummer Rory Galveson, and guitarists Connor, Mac and Quinn, as well as PR director and Cheri’s best friend Gina Saldano: tour and production manager Richard Hawkins; and band manager Bill.

The world building looks at the struggles on the road; behind the scenes; and the over crowded tour bus. The band’s manager has booked an intense three week tour that in the end will see the band lose more than a few nights of sleep. Mixing business with pleasure is always a bad combination when big brother is watching. We learn a little bit about Cheri and Rory’s earlier life but very little is fleshed out about Dev’s younger years or what makes our story line hero tick.

HARD LESSON is a slow building story line; a push and pull of palpable sexual energy that focuses on Cheri’s love for a man who is unable (or refuses) to offer more than the present. The premise is playful but I felt there was something missing in the overall presentation; the characters are passionate; the romance is tender but predictable.

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Reviewed by Sandy