The PR company reached out to me about this one as part of a promotional event where they were doing an Instagram live with the authors who wrote “unlikable heroines”. The synopsis of the story sounded good, so I signed up to read and review. And yeah, the first chapter of the book introduces us to a main character that is definitely unlikable. I mean she’s just come from sleeping with the boyfriend of her understudy, and she is going on and on about how she is all that and Broadway’s next big star. So it was with a little relief that she got a bit of karma that led to the next part of the story.

For me it also started a little slow because it was in third person, and I tend to prefer my romance in first person whenever possible. But as the story progressed I got more used to it and being able to tell which character was currently telling the story in their way. One thing that was great about the story was all of the characters. I loved our hero and heroine by the end of the story. Even with how Erika started out as unlikable, I grew to understand her and also really like her as she went through the growth her unfortunate accident had caused her to have to deal with. Now, I had a little trouble picturing Christof at first. I’m guessing he’s maybe supposed to look like Henry Cavill in the pictures I’ve seen from The Witcher. But his look and his goofiness didn’t quite match up for me at first. Again, though, as the story went on, like with Erika, I really did get to like him as well. And the connection between the two was hot! There were a few extremely steamy scenes for sure.

And the other characters in the town as well as especially Christof’s band mates made the story completely a success. I wouldn’t even mind getting a story for some of them to have their own HEAs if that was something the author was thinking about doing. Because his sister Sibylle was a hoot! I also liked how the whole thing with his ex, Gillian, was wrapped up in the end. The solution to the problem to save the opera house was great as well. Although I needed to know how she got those things out of the fire without anyone else getting their hands on them!

Glad I read this one, and hope to have time to go back and read the author’s other book at some point as well.