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BLURB:
Amber Blake is fleeing a terrible betrayal in her past by touring with rock band Puppetmaster as a make-up artist with her best friend Elyse. Knowing the band is struggling, she hopes to use her make-up skills to reinvent their image, but when a member of the crew drops out, Amber finds herself asked to contribute in a different way – in the form of heated sexual conversations with hot lead singer Cassian Marsh to put him in top form before every concert.
Despite her past, Amber is unable to resist Cassian’s charm and raw energy, and enjoys knowing she can drive him wild with just her voice – but their increasingly passionate meetings leave her longing for more. Can she move past the betrayal she suffered – and can she convince a man as commitment-phobic as Cassian to break his no-dating rule and let her into his heart?
Buy Links:
https://www.totallybound.com/book/hyperventilating
https://www.amazon.com/Hyperventilating-Rock-My-World-Book-ebook/dp/B09YRRY98W/
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Amber has an interesting aspect to her job. But she works in a world that most of us only see from the outside. Cassian seems to have a certain persona for others to see. And then he lets Amber in.
This was a story that I was starting to get into when I quickly come to the end. Being that the story revolves around a rock star and his band, if you like to listen to music I would go ahead. My only suggestion would be to skip the normal album and go with one that’s Live From... This way you can have the concert experience as you see this world unfold.
I don’t get a country vibe so a rock group would be your best bet. I’ve loved Queen since I can remember so for me, I would read this story again while listening to one of their ten live albums. If you have access to the internet, you may even be able to find one out of many in the world to listen to.
If you look at the genre, when I see the word “erotic” I picture steamy enough to blush. Maybe I’ve been in the world too long because I didn’t blush and my cheeks didn’t even get pink. It’s more about what your comfortable with and how far you like your characters to go. For me, I thought it was pretty tame. I’m interested to see how the author is going to take book two.
EXCERPT:
There was only silence now from the other side of the door. No light showed under the lower edge. With any luck there was nobody in the central living area—she could be alone with herself and the window.
As she opened the door she was met with darkness, momentarily blinded. She closed the door behind her and carefully felt her way across the room, focusing on the moon through the glass.
Then from behind her she heard the distinctive twang of a guitar chord.
Cassian.
“Leave the light off. I’m just practicing.”
“Sure.”
She heard him chuckle from the other side of the room.
“Say it in the voice.”
The voice.
When she and Elyse had first joined the tour, the band had insisted on knowing everything about the skills they had learnt during their performing arts studies. Costume, make-up, acting and, in Amber’s case, voice work. She had always considered her acting serviceable at best, but voices were her speciality—and one voice in particular, a deep, throaty bedroom voice, had been Cassian’s favourite.
She dropped into the husky, sensual tone. “Sure, honey.”
“Ah, yeah. That’s the stuff.” The sound of fingers running up the neck of the guitar. “That was the thing about Triona. Never could stand her voice.”
Everything in Amber’s head went very still. Triona.
“She was still good at your ritual, though, right?”
“Oh yeah. But, man.” His voice roughened. “It would have been way better in your voice.”
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Author Bio:
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Tanith Davenport began writing erotica at the age of 27 by way of the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers' Scheme. Her debut novel "The Hand He Dealt" was released by Totally Bound in June 2011 and was shortlisted for the Joan Hessayon Award for 2012.
Tanith has had short stories published by Naughty Nights Press and House of Erotica. She loves to travel and dreams of one day taking a driving tour of the United States, preferably in a classic 1950s pink Cadillac Eldorado.
Tanith's idea of heaven is an Indian head massage with a Mojito at her side.
Author Links:
www.facebook.com/TanithDavenport
While I would struggle to call myself a real musician, since I can’t read music, I trained as a classical and music theatre singer for years. I had a decent range, but you always want what you can’t have, and what I really wanted was to be able to sing pop and rock. I could manage the occasional pop ballad, but that was about it – I certainly never had the voice for a rock track.
So I tried writing songs instead. Not especially easy when you can’t write music, but I could write lyrics and sing along to them, even if I couldn’t write them out properly.
They were, of course, terrible.
However, they did come in handy when I was writing Hyperventilating. Cassian, my hero, is the quintessential rock star – passionate, raw and oozing sexuality – and he brings that passion to his music, writing most of his own songs. So when you see song titles in my writing, those are titles of songs I wrote myself.
I deliberately avoid going into the lyrics. Let’s just say Cassian’s versions are much better. But my own frustrated creativity went into my creation of rock star Cassian and also make-up artist and heroine Amber, who will do whatever she can to make the band a success.
Whatever it costs her.
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ReplyDeleteFantastic excerpt, Hyperventilating sounds like an excellent book to read, thanks for sharing it with me! Thanks, Lynn, for sharing your thoughts! Have a wonderful day!
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