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NO STRINGS ATTACHED by Laura Rocca
Book #1 of Rise Like A Rocket Series
Release Date: January 27th

Genre/Tropes: Contemporary Romance / Music Romance / Sport Romance / Second Chance Romance.

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BLURB
Sometimes you meet someone, and you know your life will never be the same again. One, single, fleeting moment is all it takes to change everything.

Skylar Allen is only five years old when Jaxon arrives at the orphanage where she has spent her whole life.

For the first time ever, she has someone to love, a friend who protects her and encourages her. Skylar and Jaxon become inseparable - until the day Jaxon is adopted.

Before leaving the orphanage, he promises Skylar that he’ll write every day but, after a year, Skylar is forced to face the truth: Jaxon has forgotten about her.

She still believes that when, eighteen years later, they come face to face in the lobby of the hotel where she works.

Things have changed over the years, however: Jaxon is now lead singer of The Blind Spot. His dreams of becoming a rockstar have come true, while Skylar feels like a failure: injury shattered her dreams of becoming a figure-skating champion.

Jaxon is no longer the boy she knew all those years ago, however; he’s brash and arrogant and Skylar is more than happy when he fails to recognize her.

Jaxon Mitchell is nine years old when he arrives at the Laporte orphanage after a family tragedy. There he meets little Jas and together they dream of a life far away, and putting a smile on Jas’s face becomes Jax’s purpose in life.

When he is adopted and taken to the other side of the country, he spends his days waiting for Jas to answer his letters, but the mailbox remains empty, and he is forced to admit that his new mother was right after all; Jas wants nothing more to do with him.

It’s not until seventeen years later that he discovers that those letters were never sent.

As soon as he gets a break in his busy schedule, he books a vacation in a ski-resort in Minnesota, not far from the orphanage where he spent that fateful year with Jas, hoping to find her. Unfortunately, he finds no trace of his childhood friend, who seems to have vanished into thin air.

Almost on the point of giving up and returning to his hectic lifestyle in New York, Jaxon meets Skylar, an aerobics instructor who is not even slightly impressed by his fame. Despite the animosity, however, there is something about her that reminds him of little Jas.

He knows they are two different people but there’s a chance she may be the only woman who can teach him how to love again.

A promise, a dream, a bond that goes beyond time and distance.


MY REVIEW

Jas & Jax had a connection as children that both thought would last them their lifetimes. But when he was adopted and taken away by his new parents, she never heard from him again. Oh sure, she watched him rise to rock fame, but she never communicated with him again. Until now. Until he appears at the hotel where she works, looking like the rock god he is, and acting like one too. An arrogant, entitled jerk. And she's having none of it, none of him. Especially when it's clear he doesn't recognize her. No need to tell him when she now knows he's not the sweet boy she used to know.

Jax has never forgotten his soulmate Jas. But he's moved past her, or thought he had. Then a beautiful woman puts him in his place and there are shades of his Jas in Skylar. Has he found the only woman to make him feel since leaving this town all those years ago?


I mostly enjoyed this rockstar romance. I love the idea of soulmates, which is what Jas & Jax are. I have to admit though, that I didn't like Jax at first, he came across as so arrogant that it was off putting. But he grew on me as the pages flipped and his inner vulnerability shone through. Jas's secret being kept hidden for so long also drove me nuts, and it dragged on for too long, but I could sort of understand why she didn't want to reveal it. Aside from these two things, I ended up mostly enjoying them though as I said, and would be interested in reading more in this series.


About Laura Rocca
Laura Rocca was born as summer was ending. Perhaps that’s why she loves autumn so much; or maybe it’s because the colors, smells, and sounds of the season feed her imaginative nature.

Ever since she was a little girl, she has experienced fantastical adventures, escaping reality. She still remembers joyously when, in elementary school, she would imagine, along with her best friends, that a large gnarly old nail was the secret door to Wonderland.

As she grew up, she channeled her open-mindedness into writing, a freeing outlet for her imagination. She spent whole afternoons with a pen and old journal creating enchanted worlds that only she could see, seeking refuge in them.

She loves her husband, the mountains, animals, especially her ferrets, visiting castles, places of historical importance, England — she would love to live in London — and Germany, especially Neuschwanstein.

She also loves traveling, listening to rock music, taking photos, going out with her girlfriends, talking with them on chats (especially talking), going to the cinema, reading, going to the gym, and, obviously, more than anything, she loves writing.


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