Cole Brandt was the self-centered and philandering lead singer for Generation Rejects
Vivian Baily was a flaky, attention seeking drama queen.
Apart they were challenging…together they were complete and total chaos.
Cole and Vivian were two people who should never have been together.
Yet they crashed into each other at every turn.
Their relationship was anything but stable. But it was passionate. It was messy. It was hopelessly seductive. And it might possibly drive them both insane.
They fought. They made up. They screamed. They made love.
They hated and they loved in equal measure.
And now that Generation Rejects are starting to hit it big and the band is on the road, temptation and massive egos could very well spell the end of their roller coaster.
If only they could stay away from each other.
But Vivian has finally reached her breaking point. Tired of their endless cycle, she is ready to say goodbye to Cole for good.
Yet Cole isn’t one to go away quietly. Particularly when he is starting to realize exactly what he stands to lose if Vivian walks away.
As his world begins to turn upside down, Cole realizes that the one person who can hold him together is the girl who may no longer want him.
Love can be a comedy of errors, particularly for two people who never seem to get the timing right.
And In the crazy world of rock and roll, the hardest lessons to learn just might be the ones with the sweetest rewards.
“I missed you,” he murmured into my skin.
Just when I was okay with resigning myself to what we were, to being just fine with the lack of real emotional connection, Cole had to go and do things like that.
He peppered me with soft kisses, hugging me tightly.
“I really love you being here when I wake up. I wish you could be here every morning.” I could feel him smiling against my back and I wanted to bash his head in.
He really needed to shut the hell up.
Emo mushy crap was taking things too far. I didn’t need to engage my heart in this already sticky situation.
But this was Cole. He could be this amazing, beautiful person when he wanted to be. In the aftermath of sex he said things that sent me reeling. And I couldn’t help but allow my mind to wander to possibilities.
I hated him for it.
“You smell and taste unbelievable. There needs to be an AA program for this. Vivian Anonymous. Sign me up because I can’t get enough of touching you.” Cole ran his tongue along my wet skin and I couldn’t help but moan.
“Stay with me another night. Please,” he begged.
I wanted to give in. God, did I want to. When he was like this it was hard to deny him anything. But I couldn’t pretend that what we had was something else. That the two of us were ever destined for more than a temporary physical relationship.
If I started thinking like that, I was setting myself up for a hell of a fall. And I wasn’t sure I’d survive the impact.
Cole was an egotistical manwhore. That was what I needed to remember right now. If I didn’t stay, he’d have someone else ready and willing to take my place.
He may ask me to stay but he’d be just fine if I didn’t. Our hearts were not involved here.
I snorted inelegantly. “What would all the groupies say if I was here again tonight? I don’t want to cramp your style,” I scoffed, leaning my head back on his shoulder.
Cole’s hands came up to cup my breasts, kneading and rubbing in a way that made me weak in the knees. He played my body against me each and every time.
“Why do you have to say stuff like that, Viv? You know when you’re around, there’s no one else. I don’t want anyone but you,” he admonished, his teeth scraping along the side of my neck, making me shiver, despite the warmth of the shower."
I don’t know how to express my love for A. Meredith Walters.
Her writing pulls you in and takes hold of your heart. I’m never able to put
down one of her books until the very end. Seductive
Chaos was no different.
Now the Bad Rep series is a little lighter then some of her
other stuff that rips your heart out and leaves you with a huge book hangover
while ugly girl crying for days. That’s not to say it doesn’t still leave a
huge impact with you, because A. Meredith Walters is always leaves me thinking
about her characters long after I’ve finished the book.
We meet Viv and Cole in Bad
Rep and get a little taste of what their relationship is like for the
duration of Perfect Regret. In Seductive Chaos we learn just hot and
crazy their relationship really is.
Another nice addition to Seductive
Chaos is that we also get Cole’s point-of-view and get some insight into
the inner workings of the band, Generation Rejects, that all of our heroes from
the Bad Rep series are in. We learn more about the relationships between the
band members as well as going on the journey of Viv and Cole finding out if
they are going to be able to continue their non-exclusive fuck buddies
arrangement.
I can’t lie, there were times while reading Seductive Chaos I may have been rooting
for Viv to wise up and go for the nice guy that was pursuing her. A. Meredith
Walters didn’t sugar coat Cole at all. She made him real and very guy-like that
there were times when I wanted to slap him upside the head and ask what the hell
his problem was.
Considering there weren’t male point-of-views in the
previous two books in the series I was really surprised how very realistic Cole
came out to be. He’s the lead singer in a band that is about to blow up and has
a manger who is blowing smoke up his ass – she really did a great job putting
that into perspective with Cole’s personality.
I can not wait to see what comes next with Generation Rejects!
A. Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.
When not writing (or being tortured with all manner of beauty products at the hand of her very imaginative and extremely girly 6 year old daughter), she is eating chocolate, watching reality television that could rot your brain and reading a smutty novel or two.
A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.
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