Review: Close by Laurelin Paige

BLURB Everyone wants to get close to a rock star. The bright lights. The music. Those talented fingers strumming… a guitar. Everyone wants to bang a rock star. So why do I keep running from the one who wants me? I’m America’s Sweetheart. I have a reputation. He’s a boy-band icon turned rock god. I’m vanilla. He’s every flavor of bad. And he’s much, much too young for me. If I end up in Nick Ryder’s bed, my career and I will both be screwed. ...but that’s only if I’m caught. Review: Natalie Lowen is Hollywoods "good girl". She's America's Sweetheart, and Natalie in real life is just that good. She doesn't party it up, like many of the people in the industry, and prefers to spend time working. To Natalie, image is eveything. And she's worked hard to maintain that image. However with this good girl image, comes alot of responsibility. It hasn't been an easy ride for Natalie. She is also unlucky in love. She hasn't had a good run with relationships, and at 36 she feels like she'll never meet someone she can fall in love and settle down with. As a celebrity, her inability to be the other half of a couple, is blamed on her. The tabloids are saying that Natalie drives men away with her ambition. Meh. On a night where she decides to let her hair down, Natalie's just looking to have a few drinks and dance the night away. What she's not counting on is sexy dancing with rock god Nick Ryder. Who happens to be very, very young. Like 13 years younger.  

She's shocked that such a young, hot, man would want her of all people. Boring, safe her. What starts off as a dance at the floor of a club, evolves into another kind of dance, with Nick chasing after her.

Nick wants to get to know Natalie. He's all too familiar with hook-ups with no substance, and he's bored. For once he'd like to know someone before having sex with them. Nick is also focused on his career, but he also wants to have a relationship. Who better than the woman he lusts after whenever he sees her on screen? 

Natalie may be older than Nick, but she's scared. She's scared what their relationship may do to the persona she has worked so hard to cultivate. Nick is the more assured one. To him it's simple. He wants Natalie, baggage be damned. He doesn't care about what other people say, he just wants to be with her. At certain parts of the story I wanted to yell at Natalie to "Wake up!". She had this sweet, sexy, man who was head over heels for her. She was letting her insecurities get the best of her. Nick was all things sweet. He was patient, and understood Natalie, at times even better than she understood herself. I was glad to see he wasn't made out to be a two dimensional rock star, who couldn't keep it in his pants. Laurelin Paige is a woman of many talents. While she's amazing at writing dirty books, she's also pretty freaking amazing at writing sweet romance. I found this book to be more on the tamer side. (But still the sexy times are pretty hot). I look forward to reading Jake's (Nicks brother) book.

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