Release Blitz & Book Review: Our Song by Lauren Runow

Our Song

by Lauren Runow

Genre: Contemporary Rockstar Romance

Release Date: September 10th, 2019

Designed by Lauren Runow

Blurb:

After a devastating accident crushed my dreams, I ended up back in my hometown teaching kindergarten. I was trying to make the best of it. That is, until the world I had to leave behind, showed up in my classroom in the form of a five-year-old little girl. Her father living the exact life I almost had.

Adam Jacobson is known as the bad boy of rock. While he and his band tour the world, they leave a trail of mayhem. What no one knows is behind the music is a caring, straightedge man with a secret — a daughter who the world is about to discover.

When they move to my small town, their secret is blown. He needs my help to keep her out of the media, and with each exchange we grow closer. Only problem is I need to stay away from the memories he ignites, and the temptations he brings my way.

Secrets I’ve kept and thoughts of that fatal night come crashing back into my life. I have to wonder if it was more than fate that brought his little girl into my classroom.

 

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About the author:

Lauren Runow is the author of multiple Adult Contemporary Romance novels, some more dirty than others. When Lauren isn't writing, you'll find her listening to music, at her local CrossFit, reading, or at the baseball field with her boys. Her only vice is coffee, and she swears it makes her a better mom!

Lauren is a graduate from the Academy of Art in San Francisco and is the founder and co-owner of the community magazine she and her husband publish. She is a proud Rotarian, helps run a local non-profit kids science museum, and was awarded Woman of the Year from Congressman Garamendi. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons.

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My review:

I loved this book so much and I felt how the author left her own signature, or personal touch as one may say, throughout the whole story because it was so obvious that music is her passion as well as writing and she perfectly mixed them together in this fantastic book.

Her stories pull me in and I always get so lost in them that I'm surprised every time when I reach the end because they always feel so real and I could read forever about her characters and never tire of them. Our Song was such a beautiful story that made me laugh so much. I adored the characters and even cried a couple of times when my heart ached for them. This was yet another beautiful book of hers that touched my heart deeply.

'Every female has her eye on a certain bad boy, that one guy she couldn't dream of actually doing anything with but loves to admire from afar.'

You know when you feel all giddy with excitement as if there are a thousand butterflies in your stomach?! Kind of when you meet your first love and get sweaty hands because you’re so nervous. That’s how this story made me feel. I was on cloud no.9 and felt like meeting my first and one true rock star love and idol. There are no words to do this feeling any justice and I can only urge you to read this book. I’m sure that if you love music as much as I do, you’ll absolutely enjoy this.

'Music might have been the cause of my pain, but it was still my doctor, my therapy, and my lifeline.'

The Story:

Sarah always wanted to be a singer and touch people’s hearts with her songs. But one tragic night ended it all. That’s how she found herself teaching at a kindergarten in her small and quiet home town until a pretty little girl with pigtails attends her class and turns Sarah’s world upside down. The world she left behind came crashing back when she met the little girl’s father, a man she admired for years from afar.

'I might be a kindergarten teacher, but inside is someone dying to be heard, to make a difference, the way Adam has through music.'

Thoughts:

I adored Cailin and was so surprised by her dad’s character who was such an amazing father, down to earth and all around easy going person at home. I absolutely understood his need to feel normal around Sarah and not like the rock star that he was. I actually liked him even better for that. He was only a human being seeking acceptance, like-minded people and someone who saw him as a man and not the person he represented on stage. Because no matter how great his bandmates were, this lifestyle of his could make a person feel very lonely and he wanted to find someone to confide in.

I was in awe of how well he handled it all alone, to protect and care for his daughter while being torn between two worlds that he loved, his music and his kid. He did everything for Cailin and I loved their interaction with each other. They were so cute. Cailin was such a sweet and smart little girl and I loved how happy and content she was even with her dad being gone for weeks.

Although I eventually understood the fear of Sarah’s father for her, I never thought a man like him could be so harsh towards his daughter and judge people because of their profession, taste in music and overall different lifestyle. I know he was an old-school pastor but I really felt sorry for Sarah who was hurting because of his disappointment in her. She couldn't even be herself in this small town with people who judged someone on their appearance and life choices, so it was even sadder that her dad didn’t have her back. It made me sick how people didn’t even want to get to know a person before they started judging one.

But coming back to the good feelings this story made me feel. I melted into a puddle of goo around Adam because he was such an amazing guy. I was so jittery and really felt Sarah’s nervousness around him. I would totally be fangirling too.

P.S.: The scenes in the recording studio were some of my favorites, as well as chapter 13.

'I think there's nothing sexier than a man with a low-slung guitar, playing so easily without even watching what he's doing.'

The sexual tension between the characters was off the charts and I loved how it just clicked between them from the very beginning. There was magic in the air. I also liked Sarah’s crazy friend Maggie, the voice of reason *haha*, as well as Adam’s bandmates.

This book couldn’t have been any more perfect than it already was.

-- I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book given by the author. --

My rating: 5 of 5 Stars
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