Review Tour: Once Upon A Sure Thing: Lauren Blakely
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"I'm falling for my best friend...Have I mentioned he's also my new bandmate? Oops."
Don’t miss this delicious rock star romance from #1 NYT bestseller Lauren Blakely containing:
✔ Miller, a sexy and sweet rocker with a dirty mouth!
✔ Ally, a singer and a mom who loves her peeps with her whole heart!
✔ A best-friends-to-lovers romance that'll make you swoon!
Sizzling hot, swoony and sweet, and filled with everything in between, ONCE UPON A SURE THING is full of heat, heart, humor and sexy times you’re sure to love.
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Once Upon a Sure Thing
Lauren Blakely
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It's so easy being best friends with a gorgeous, talented, charming guy.
Said no woman ever. Except me.
My friendship with Miller is a sure thing — he’s my plus one, my emergency contact, and my shoulder to lean on. He’s also been by my side helping me raise one helluva awesome kid who’s the center of my world.
Nothing will change our easy breezy friendship. Until I have the bright idea to convince him to start a new band with me.
Trouble is, our sizzling chemistry in the recording studio is getting harder to ignore, no matter how risky it might be.
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Sing sexy songs with the woman you’ve been lusting after? Get up close and personal as you croon to the woman you’ve wanted for years?
Piece of cake.
NOT.
Performing with the sweet, sassy and insanely wonderful Ally is like one gigantic obstacle course of challenges for my libido. And my libido is one sexy love song away from kissing her senseless and taking her home.
But, I’m not a serious kind of guy, and she’s not a one-night-stand kind of woman. If we cross the horizontal line, we might risk our sure thing and end up out of tune forever...
His best friend, Ally, is doing her best to take care of her niece and to be an independent, good role model. She is smart, loving, and dependable. Miller is the comic relief in her life, but he has also always been there for her and her niece. She has her own past history with music and also misses it. And she is looking for opportunities that could broaden her horizons and give her more financial stability as well. And when Miller starts looking for a new female singing partner, she'll just have to find a way to convince him that she can be a sultry songbird.
Once the chemistry and pent up feelings that these friends have kept buried for the past six years start to escape, it becomes harder to keep their inappropriate attraction contained. Once they see each other in a new light, that brings about a whole host of other issues. Is it real or fake? Can they contain it with rules or a default plan? Can they figure out how to navigate the changes that are coming their way, or will it make them so awkward that it affects their previously solid and easy friendship?
This is a slow-burn, sweet, funny, sexy friends-to-lovers story with a few complications. He's a man not known for being serious about life or relationships. But his fun persona also covers up the depths of his needs, wants, and feelings. She needs to make sure that her niece has the most stable and best life possible, and she is afraid to risk losing Miller from their lives. They've always had a good rapport, but now it is veering off into flirty and even naughty-land that blur all the lines. And the farther they cross them, the harder it is to figure out what will happen to them in the future. They have to weigh the risks and benefits.
Can they make a mash up of friends and lovers and partners work, or will they ruin the one sure thing in their lives?
Once the chemistry and pent up feelings that these friends have kept buried for the past six years start to escape, it becomes harder to keep their inappropriate attraction contained. Once they see each other in a new light, that brings about a whole host of other issues. Is it real or fake? Can they contain it with rules or a default plan? Can they figure out how to navigate the changes that are coming their way, or will it make them so awkward that it affects their previously solid and easy friendship?
This is a slow-burn, sweet, funny, sexy friends-to-lovers story with a few complications. He's a man not known for being serious about life or relationships. But his fun persona also covers up the depths of his needs, wants, and feelings. She needs to make sure that her niece has the most stable and best life possible, and she is afraid to risk losing Miller from their lives. They've always had a good rapport, but now it is veering off into flirty and even naughty-land that blur all the lines. And the farther they cross them, the harder it is to figure out what will happen to them in the future. They have to weigh the risks and benefits.
Can they make a mash up of friends and lovers and partners work, or will they ruin the one sure thing in their lives?
This brings back the characters introduced in the first book, Once Upon A Real Good Time, and I enjoyed more with his brothers, Campbell and Miles, and all of the others that make up their group of friends and family. I love that even though this is a series about musicians, it is also about family, kids, and friendships. This is a low angst, fun, flirty book that put a big smile on my face. I am looking forward to Miles' book next!
Miller and Ally are best friends. They rely on each other for everything, and Miller is a huge help when it comes to Ally raising her niece. But there are two lines they haven’t crossed: working together and anything beyond friendship. When Miller decides to form a duo with a woman, Ally sees it as a chance to give herself a little breathing room in the budget while also spending time with her best friend. Miller is worried it will cross too many lines.
I love a good friends to lovers, and this one had me grinning the entire time. I loved the way these two were around each other even before they admitted they might be good together in new ways. This was entirely entertaining and I found myself cheering for them when they decided to take things to the next level, knowing their entire friendship could be lost if things went wrong. But it was also clear from their early interactions that it would be hard for them to truly mess up -- they are just perfect for each other!
But things aren’t all rainbows for them. Miller is not a serious relationship kind of guy, and Ally is not a one night stand kind of girl.
As I said in Once Upon a Real Good Time, the kids are a fun addition to this family group. Ally’s niece fits right in with that idea, being both a sounding board for Ally and also adding humor and wit as only a teenager can. I loved seeing the rest of the Hart family again, with Campbell and Makenzie (and their kids) and even a little more from Miles around to add to the story. I am anxiously waiting for Miles’s book, Once Upon a Wild Fling, because his little teaser is great!
I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
~Miller~
She sings like a sinner. She sings like an angel. She sounds like whiskey and sugar. I’ve only ever known her for her church-bell voice, but now she’s a glorious mix of dirty and sweet, and I never knew she had it in her.
But I can’t marinate in this change-up. It’s showtime for me.
Grabbing the mic, I dive into my first line as I gaze into those blue eyes of my friend. Only I have to think of her as Honey, so I sing to the new woman about how I can’t do without her, how I need her now.
Something is in the air between us when we sing, something charged. Something that hasn’t been there before. Stage chemistry.
I move closer as if I’m drawn by the pull of gravity that I have no control over. We lock eyes and everyone else fades away. I’m still in shock that I’m loving singing a song with my best friend.
That’s what terrifies me. Especially since we sound good together, and we move well together.
Maybe we even look good together, as we belt out this hot-as-fuck duet, and for the first time we’re not butchering a holiday tune or destroying “Total Eclipse of the Heart” at karaoke. As she moves closer to me, we sing the final chorus like it’s going out of style, and when the music softens, I can’t resist. I finger a strand of her blonde wig, the coconut scent from her lotion floating into my nose.
Reluctantly, I let the hair fall.
Clapping rings loud in my ears.
Jackson, Miles, and Campbell give a standing O. Jackson holds up his phone, pointing to it, letting me know he caught it on video.
“Chemistry,” the guys all shout, practically in unison.
But I’m not supposed to have chemistry with my best friend.
That’s the problem.
“What the hell just happened here?” I whisper to Ally, befuddled.
Her mouth opens, and her eyes go wide, and she blurts out, “I have an appointment. I need to go.”
She takes off, leaving in her wake a trail of chemistry and coconut and confusion.
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A #1 New York Times Bestselling author, and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that's hot, sweet and sexy. She lives in California with her family and has plotted entire novels while walking her dogs. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, and she's sold more than 2.5 million books. In September she'll release ONCE UPON A SURE THING, a sexy best-friends-to-lovers romance. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter! laurenblakely.com/newsletter
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