One Way or Another

by Portia MacIntosh

[Leah]

When Portia MacIntosh emailed me and asked me if I would like to review her novella Between A Rock Star and a Hard Place, it was a no brainer. I love books set in the music world, I love books where people are best friends with rock stars and I love it even no when there’s no agenda there (ie. them sleeping together). It’s nice to read a book about a rock star and his best friend and there be no shenanigans – although I can’t think it’s too hard for Nicole considering the sheer amount of people Dylan managed to get through in such a short novella!

I thoroughly enjoyed Between A Rock Star and a Hard Place, Portia has a fantastic writing style which made feel like Nicole was a friend, rather than someone I had only just met and I rather liked her devotion to trying to find Dylan before it was too late – anyone else would have simply left him to their own devices and no one would have been all that bothered, let’s be honest, but I like that Nicole was there for her friend, despite his actions, and despite the fact she was sent on what was a wild goose chase, from pillar to post and back again.

I cannot wait for the first full-length novel Starstruck. I already love Nicole, so I can’t wait to tag along with her as she goes on the ride to wherever she’s going (presumably on tour with Dylan’s band The Burnouts?). I REALLY hope we’ll see more of the delectable Troy, and that he’s not just a one-novella wonder, because I looooved him and I think he and Nicole got on really well and one thing I definitely don’t want is Dylan and Nicole to happen. They’re friends, and Dylan’s a skank and Nicole deserves way better and Troy could be that way better! I can’t wait for more from these guys, they’re ace!