Nearly twelve months has passed since Sylvie Embers’ heart went MIA. She knows exactly where it is, but she can’t go back there… not to him. But fate is a twisted bitch and has other plans… She finds herself right back in the center of Jamison Rivera’s life when her best friend – Lucy Dalton, announces she’s marrying his best friend and bandmate – Ben Travers.Honoring her closest friends … friends wishes, she blindly steps into her own personal version of hell on earth to confront the devil himself.
Everything’s changed. Old feelings certainly haven’t.
He wont give her up.
She needs him to.
What happens when what they had, won’t let go?
Sylvie:
“In what lifetime did you think I could have come back to you? I was destitute in every sense of the word after you. I’ve made my life work now because I’ve had to. But as far as dating and love go, I’m not interested… because of us. Because I had no faith in you not to do the same thing to me again and again and again. There would have always been another Samara waiting to fuck it up for us, and you would never have been strong enough to weather the storm with me. The most miserable part of all this, is the fact that after everything, I still love you… I always will. I just can’t be in love with you. I can’t even contemplate giving someone else what I gave you. You own my fucking everything, Jamison, but you annihilated it, too.”
Jamison:
I was terrified keeping her would completely deplete that wonderful woman. So, I pushed her away… and every fiber of my being had mourned for her ever since. I can’t fucking see beyond her. Here with me, that’s where she’s meant to be. In my house, my bed. Every. Damn. Night. Any other man having that with her is just not going to happen. No matter who I’ve got to piss off in the process, she’s going to be Mrs. Rivera one day, whether she likes it or not.
This is the third installment of the Twelve Months series. This is not a standalone. It is recommended that you read Twelve Months (book 1) and Reprieve (book 2) before Broken Chord.
Due to graphic language, drug use, and scenes of a sexual nature, this book is recommended for an 18+ audience.
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Another fantastic part to a wonderful and eventful series. Sylvie has been the person I have hated and loved in equal parts on several occasions. At times I wanted to grab her and shake her. A fun, and eventful story filled with warmth and sadness. Sad to see the story come to an end, but looking forward to getting to know other characters better in their own series of books (wink wink).
Vous Pour La Vie Sylvie
From the first time Jamison Noah Rivera said this to Sylvie Eloise Embers I was on a book high that I haven’t felt in long time, but you know the old saying, the higher you go – the further you fall.
This book follows right after Twelve Months Reprieve ends and yes – they have to be read in order, but fair warning if you do, be prepared for the mother of all book hangovers. In the hundreds upon hundreds of books and series I have read this will be in my all-time top ten favorites and for not the usual reasons. Ms Gadd created a world that sucked you in and refused to spit you out, characters so flawed that you might want to fling that kindle against a wall, some of you might even give up on the story but I couldn’t because this is a deeper book than the normal rock star story. It is mainly about Sylvie and her past colliding with her present, the hints were there from book one, her backstory is throughout the series and comes to a head in this book. I had to keep reminding myself that this book takes place for the first three quarters over 6 weeks’ time or I might have given in to the urge to fling my kindle as well. I love the band, their relationship to each other, I love Sylvie’s support system, Lucy, Vi and Nancy, oh EVERYONE should have a Nancy in their life and Alex, it is very rare that a book has another potential leading man right in the heart of the story but there he is. However this is Jamison & Sylvie’s story and in Ms Gadds’ gut wrenching way to the conclusion, getting them together was not an easy road, but an epic journey of how far you will go to be with the love of your life or run the risk of destroying each other forever. This review was not easy because I haven’t fully decompressed from finishing the book. I did wait ten months for Broken Chord and it was absolutely worth the wait. While other supporting characters definitely have stories to be told, this epic tale will stay with me for a very long time.
5+++ Stars There are no words to describe this book or this series which would do justice to one of the best rock romances I have read and believe me I have read many of them since it’s my go to genre. Only an extremely talented author can bring their characters to life in such a way that you are feeling like a voyeur into all of their lives; you are laughing when they laugh, crying when they cry and making you feel a part of their lives to the point of feeling like I was actually backstage with them or in their private lives.
The wrap up in Sylvie and Jamison’s story was done leaving me feel some sort of closure…don’t get me wrong, I would love nothing more than to keep reading more stories on this couple and their friends. Do not let the amount of pages in these book stop you either because I was surprised myself that the pages seemed to fly by and left me hoping that this wild crazy ride with these people would never end.
If there is one series you want to read and you love rock romances full of angst, love, sex and camaraderie you need to put this series on the top of your list.