Out of heartbreak comes hope…I just escaped a job and relationship that nearly crushed me. Crawling out of the wreckage of my previous life, I’m finished with caution. I want sexy, vibrant rockstar Hayden, and I’m going to take him. For as long as I can… saga of hope and love from a USA Today bestselling author.
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Between Breaths “Seattle Sound Series, Book 2” by Alexa Padgett
Book 2 of the Seattle Sound Series picks up with Briar Moore, and her story. In the previous book, Sweet Solace, Briar broke up with her uptight, oncologist boyfriend after being together for three looong years. He tried to put her in a box of his making and nearly conned her into motherhood. Now it’s time to find herself and what her next career will be. Everything falls to the side when she finds out a good friend has terminal cancer and has been placed in hospice. Hayden Crewe, of the Australian band, Jackaroo, is a rising star and is enjoying yet another city that can’t get enough of him or his band members. That is until he gets a call from Seattle about his mother. She is in stage four pancreatic cancer and in hospice. He is on the next flight to plan for her care and then back to fame and fortune. He doesn’t have time for a mother that left him as a child.
What Hayden and Briar find is a budding romance between two people that have both been hurt by their mothers. Both are struggling with their past and find support in each other. Briar balances and calms Hayden, by bringing him back from the precipice of the turmoil with his mom. He breaks down her walls that she has so carefully built up over the years. They decide to enjoy the time they have until he needs to return to the stage, but will it last once they get back to the real world?
Between Breaths Had me laughing, sighing, and crying with the same paragraph at times. The words he used to share, his innermost feelings with Briar about his past made him a tarnished hero, but one that needed his fairytale. This book literally made me put the book down so I could catch my breath more than once.
CAn two people fall in love while mourning important people in their lives about to die? Briar has feel rejected so many time se in her life that she doesn’t trust easily. Hayden, an Australian rock star, do not get attached to people after her mother never contacted him after he left the USA with his father to go back to Australia when he was ten years old. But Briar and Hayden connect deeply through pain, grief and loss. But a lot of things are pushing them apart. Can they fight their own demons and have a future together? Tough live and love story.
Wow this was a different angle on rockstar pain and angst. Australian rockstar Hayden meets Briar at a Seattle hospice as he goes from his world tour to be at the bedside of the mother who abandoned him when he was a child. Briar is there to spend time with her ex boyfriend’s aunt Rosie who she is close to but who is dying.
Briar has just broken up with her controlling boyfriend – really who would do what he did! She is not really looking for another relationship but when she meets Hayden she wants try and console and help him deal with the death of his mother. What starts as friendship soon becomes more but it has a time limit as Hayden has to get back to his band. Hayden is trying to keep his visit to Seattle under wraps but it gets out there to the media and Briar gets a taste of what life would be like with him always in the spotlight, but she never gets to find out as Hayden leaves her suddenly and with no explanation.
There is so much to this story, dealing with the death of loved ones, mental illness, what life is like in the spotlight and being abandoned both as a child and an adult. Luckily both Briar and Hayden have support around them but is it enough to help or do they need to work through their pain together?
So far this has been a riveting series from Alexa and I can’t wait to start the next book. These are stories of people who just happen to be rockstars who are struggling with their issues but still giving the audience a good show.
In this one with a not ordinary kinda story line you will follow Hayden and Briar as they encounter each other in a time when needed. Also they do not do the normal but have to plunge you on a roller coaster type of ride tuning you upside down at times. You will need to catch your breath a time or two. They have really had to deal with a bit but that is life. You will get so wrapped up in this one you will loose track of time so watch what you are doing lol.
Between Breaths is an emotional and steamy roller coaster of romance, grief and betrayal from within the ranks. Briar and Hayden both understand pain but it is their current situation that draws them together. Hayden needs answers and Briar needs closure. As they stand together in the face of their ultimate loss, they find hope and a future. However, not everyone is happy about their newfound love and there are threats to destroy them. I was deeply moved by this novel and recognised once again that however popular and gifted an artist may be, their lot is not an easy one. This book is well written and it is part of a series. A number of characters from previous books in this set appear in this plot too, but it is nevertheless and standalone with a positive and joyful ending. I received a copy of this book as a gift and this is my honest and voluntary review.
Briar and Hayden’s story in Alexa Padgett’s Between Breaths: A Bad Boy Rockstar Romance (Seattle Sound Series Book 2) is a romance that is passionate, emotional, painful, fulfilling and powerful all at the same time. It’s the sort of read that’s hard to put down once started. Read the publisher’s blurb for a good description. All I can do is note that if You find that blurb appealing then I’m confident you’ll love the book. But for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises – the book definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, it is easy to highly recommend.
Another brilliant read by this author. Even though this story has a few characters carry through from Sweet Solace it is a complete standalone. This book had me hooked with the emotion, as well as a love story it is a story of life and what it throws at you. Briar and Hayden meet through chance but everything thrown at them. A page turning read.