OWNED (Lost in Oblivion #5) by Cari Quinn and Taryn Elliott-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: May 24, 2016

Music kept them going. Now it’s torn them apart…

Guitarist Nick Crandall lost the most important thing in his life—his band—just as he was falling in love. A year has passed, and Oblivion is returning from hiatus. And Nick is ready to ask Lila to spend forever with him, even if he won’t have his best friend at his side for the ceremony.

Simon has spent the past year trying to find his way back to the thing that sustained him in his darkest hours, then grew to be his biggest demon. Margo has been at his side, but she’s tired of him denying his dreams. With her help, he’s ready to admit it’s showtime.

Perhaps he’s even ready to stand up for his best friend…and face him on the stage that united them so long ago.

It’s do or die, one more time.

**The guys—and their women—are in the driver’s seat in Owned, and the ride’s gonna rock. This is the FINAL book in the Lost in Oblivion rockstar series.**

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REVIEW: OWNED is the fifth full length and final installment in Cari Quinn and Taryn Elliott’s contemporary, adult LOST IN OBLIVION erotic, rock romance series focusing on the member of the rock band Oblivion. OWNED can be read as a stand alone but for cohesion and plenty of back story, I recommend reading the series in order as many of the events of the current time line began in previous installments.

Told from four –third party points of view (Simon, Margo, Nick and Lila) OWNED follows the two couples and their relationships that suffer, due mostly in part, to Simon’s ongoing issues with losing his voice, and his year long recovery that have left the other members of the band floundering in their professional lives. Although no one is at fault for Simon’s ruined vocal chords, Nick blames his lead singer for the destruction of the band. What ensues are two separate but entangled story lines where two couples struggle to reunite the band along with a lifelong friendship that has been destroyed by hurtful words and physical discord.

OWNED is the culmination of twelve installments including five full length stories and 7 novellas that focused on the relationships, friendships, successes and failures of the rock band Oblivion. LOST IN OBLIVION is a series not only about rock musicians and the people they love, but a series about family-by blood and by association. The breakdown of a friendship all but destroys a once up and coming successful band- a friendship that has weathered many storms of personal and professional failure. The heartbreak and emotional fall out affects everyone involved but none more so than Nick Crandall who is unable to continue without his best friend-a friend he doesn’t know is suffering from something much more than the loss of his voice.

Quinn and Elliott pull the reader behind the scenes of not one, not two but three relationships and how their downward spiral has a physical and emotional affect on friendships, family and personal relationships that struggle to move forward. All of the previous story line characters and couples play secondary and supporting roles; we are witness to expanding families, promises for the future, and the formation of a new band and another spin off series-Found in Oblivion. There is already a previous spin off series-HAMMERED-featuring a number of cross overs between both series.

OWNED is an emotional and poignant story line about friendship, family and love. The premise is inspiring and heartwarming; the characters are spirited, provocative and intoxicating; the romances are seductive and erotic-there are numerous passionate and sensual $ex scenes throughout the story. Cari Quinn and Taryn Elliott have written an addicting series that I would recommend every time -who doesn’t love a bad boy rocker that can be tamed by the woman he loves.

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Reviewed by Sandy