The 80’s are back and I cannot get enough! Rebecca Yarros has joined the Love in the 80’s Series with her book 1984: Against All Odds! This book is sweet coupled with the original MTV and rock and roll in the 1980’s. Don’t miss this novella! Check out more about this new release below, read Tina’s Thoughts and an excerpt from the story, and grab your copy!
1984: Against All Odds
Love in the 80s #5
Rebecca Yarros
Genre: New Adult Novella
Cover Design: Regina Wamba – MaeIDesign and Photography
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Love the music—never the man.
At twenty years-old, Sabrina Caroline was America’s sweetheart pop star, until she took a year off to treat her social phobia that her cut-throat-manager/mom paid top dollar to keep quiet. Now as part of her comeback, she’s forced into collaboration with one of the hottest rock bands topping the charts—Birds of Prey—whose lead guitarist happens to be her biggest mistake…and her biggest regret.
Hawke Owens never imagined Birds of Prey would surpass the basement of the Duncan High School for Performing Arts, let alone score them a European tour. But success has its price, and for him, it’s being forced to work with the only girl who shattered his heart—Sabrina Caroline. She’s everything that he remembers and more, every memory and fantasy come to life. At first touch, their connection is electric, but it’s also as strong as her determination to follow her number one rule—she doesn’t date rock stars…even though she’s become one.
Loving her again is as natural as holding his guitar, but she’s destroyed him once, and this time the stakes are higher, more public, and the consequences life-altering.
Against the backdrop of the birth of MTV, they’ll have to choose between the demands of their label, and the demands of the heart.
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There is nothing better than taking it back and immersing yourself in a fantastic novella 1980’s style. The time of MTV, acid washed jeans, rock and roll, and dreams. *sigh* Okay, I may not have been alive quite yet during the time frame of this novella but Rebecca Yarros does a great job of capturing the allure of the 80s and sharing a story of second chance love and hope to her audience. Yarros writes gripping stories and her true talent is able to shine forth in this novella. It feels way too short for my taste, only because I can read her words for days. You get all the you need and leave feeling satisfied.
As you read this story, you understand the history of these two characters without the backstory weighing everything down. We understand and the deeper you get into the story, the more things click into place. At first everything seems to be a bit cliché and the more you learn about Hawke and Brie, the more you get and the more you enjoy. You begin to better understand their frustrations and anxieties. Their chemistry is so obvious and their emotional turbulence leads the reader to devour their angst and passion. These two give and take, allowing for a beautiful love story to unfold. In a story that seems to have been done before, Yarros takes what would be predictable and gives the story a facelift. There are a few surprises in this novella, ones that enhance what you read and give you that little something more.
The 1980s, coupled with the original MTV that played music (gasp), incredible New Adult angst, and compelling characters get mixed together to make a story you will not soon forget! Don’t miss this one! Another fantastic installment in the Love in the 80s Series!
He took my face in his hands and leaned in until he was all I could see, all I could feel, and smell. How easily he consumed me with a simple touch. “There have been too many women. Too many meaningless encounters. Too many faces. But there’s only been one name in my mouth, and it’s always been yours. Only yours.”
His mouth met mine without preamble, and before I could protest, I was lost to the feel of his lips on mine.
It was so familiar, yet new. When his tongue stroked the seam of my lips, I opened for him, and reveled in his groan as he sank into the kiss. I found the support beam against my back as he pressed against me, our bodies aligning with the fit I’d always remembered as perfect.
It was still just as exquisite.
His hand stroked down the side of my body, a path of fire igniting in his wake until he gripped one of my hips, pulling me even closer to him. With the other, he tilted my head for a deeper assault, exploring the recesses of my mouth, lingering like he didn’t already know every part of me.
It was the best second first kiss in the history of kisses.
I arched, pushing my breasts against his chest, and looped my arms around his neck. Then I kissed him back with every ounce of passion I’d missed these last three years. I kissed him the way I’d fantasized about since I walked out, with tiny nips and fuller, lingering caresses. When that wasn’t enough, I sucked his tongue back into my mouth and reveled in his groan of surrender.
He still wanted me, and that knowledge was more intoxicating than any alcohol, more high-inducing than any drug.
His hand shifted, running under my dress until he met bare skin where my garters attached to my stockings. “Holy shit, Brie. You’re going to be the death of me.”
He squeezed my bare thigh, and I lifted my leg, semi-wrapping it around his hip.
I’d almost forgotten how powerful it was to kiss Hawke, how it consumed every sense, every thought, until I was just a jumble of feelings and need. It was never just a kiss, it was a full-body experience that blocked out the rest of the world.
A moan escaped my lips as his set to my neck, and my head rolled back against the beam. He hit the spot right above my collarbone and I whimpered.
“I love that sound,” he murmured, then gently sucked that patch of skin so he could hear it again.
“Hey guys—whoa!” Chad’s voice penetrated my haze of desire.
“Go the fuck away,” Hawke said, moving so I was covered from Chad’s gaze. “Yeah, well, I would—I mean, good for you guys, and it’s about damn time—but Oscar Oswald is here and he’s asking for us.”
I pushed gently against Hawke’s chest. If Oscar Oswald was here, it could mean huge things for their career. He was the biggest name going in rock. “You need to see what he wants.”
Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and lover of all things chocolate, coffee, and Paleo. In addition to being a mom, military wife, and blogger, she can never choose between Young Adult and New Adult fiction, so she writes both. She’s a graduate of Troy University, where she studied European history and English, but still holds out hope for an acceptance letter to Hogwarts.
When she’s not writing, she’s tying on hockey skates for her kids, or sneaking in some guitar time. She is madly in love with her army-aviator husband of thirteen years, and they’re currently stationed in Upstate NY with their gaggle of rambunctious kiddos and snoring English Bulldog, but she would always rather be home in Colorado.
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