Rock Chick Regret [Kindle Edition]

My favorite "quote" - it made me go all awwwww...
"Sadie?"
"What?"
"You with me?"
I blinked in confusion and said, "Yes." And I was, wasn't I? I was standing in his arms for goodness sake.
"This is Sadie?" Hector went on.
I blinked again. "Yes."
"My Sadie?" he kept at it.
This time I blinked for a different reason.
His Sadie? Was there a Hector's Sadie? Was I Hector's Sadie? Did Hector think I was his Sadie?
Oh...my...God.
Before I could process what he said or get close to processing what that meant, I watched him smile, then he bent his head and kissed my lips.
"Yeah," he said, his face an inch away. "It's my Sadie."

4.5 stars.

Sadie Townsend is the daughter of a drug lord and by association scum of the earth. Hector Chavez is a former DEA Agent. He brought Sadie's father and his whole empire down. Sadie has an appointment at Lee Nightingale's office because she doesn't feel safe and she needs a bodyguard. Even though her father is imprisoned, the crime doesn't go away. There's a war to see who will be the new king and the Balducci brothers mean trouble (trouble with a capital T). Unfortunately, Lee "can't" help her and later on something very evil happens to Sadie. I was so sorry and hurt for Sadie! This was an incredibly intense part of Rock Chick Regret and absolutely outstanding!

Hector aka Double H (it stands for Hispanic Hottie) is smart, sharp, and loyal. He's a gorgeous and bossy alpha male, yet there is something incredibly gentle and tender about this guy. Wow, Hector's got sexy and very warm eyes. Every time his gaze went warm my belly did a flip! Hector is totally Dee-licious!

The Pretend Sadie is scared that Hector could find out what lies beneath her façade. She pretends to be The Ice Princess but she is someone else. It's a defense mechanism and being The Ice Princess is helping her to cope after she lost her mom when she was a kid. Furthermore, it helps her to deal with her drug lord father. Hector vows to pull the real Sadie out, and he became really good at ignoring Sadie's Chill Factor Sub-Zero Glares!

Until Sadie met Hector, the Rock Chicks and their men she didn't have any friends of her own. She did not have fun and her life was pretty empty and without kindness. She has never learned to truly trust someone. Sadie didn't know how to deal with Hector either. I know that Sadie had a right to act the way she did but honestly, it was quite exhausting at times! Even Hector said that she was a pain in the a**. Oh, Sadie, clue in, mamita!

I loved the endearment mamita. I instantly adored it. It's so sweet and Sadie needed all the gentleness she could get from Hector. As always the cast of secondary characters is great and every character is wonderfully fleshed out! I especially loved the two gay guys Ralphie and Buddy. They were sweet, funny, and very kind. The whole bunch of Rock Chicks are their own brand of trouble - um, good and hilarious trouble, of course! Rock Chick Regret mainly revolves around the developing relationship between H/h, even though there is some action intertwined into the story. The whole story is embraced by a serious undertone then again, you'll find enough well-placed humor too. The first half of the book was fabulous! But the second half lost a little bit of its sparkle and lost a tad of its pace as well. Don't get me wrong, it was very good but I just hoped for another fabulous half. Yes, such darn expectations. Always.

If you're a Kristen Ashley addict then I highly recommend you to read Rock Chick Regret! It's another great, engaging and sometimes very intense and painful story.

After reading all but one of the Rock Chick's I'll admit I was getting a little tired of the formula. Girl in trouble bumbles into town, boy latches onto her and won't let go, girl fights attraction, eventually, after several madcap adventures, girl submits to boy and awesomeness ensues. The more characters that this series collects, the more ridiculous it gets. There is over-the-top surveillance, oversharing, just over-everything in this series.

Until Sadie. Sadie's troubles were more tragic and serious than the rest of the Rock Chicks, I think I can say that without qualifiers. And Hector fit the formula of "woman, grunt, mine" just like the others, BUT he was so awsome helping her through her trauma that I can pretty much forgive anything. And Sadie herself is no slouch. Unlike some of the other Rock Chicks, whose self-esteem issues can get kind of old, Sadie is one tough cookie, through and through.

Don't get me wrong - if you are in the mood for light and madcap, this is your series. But don't start with this book. Read at least the first two (the best, IMO, until this one) because knowing the characters will give a much richer feel to this book.

If you are in the mood for this series to get a tad darker and richer, this IS your book. If you want to see a survivor who faces life on her terms, with a little help from her friends, this is your book. I commend KA for her commitment to her characters and her daring to go much deeper. Her characters, as it turns out, can handle it.

I love each one more than the other this series is phenomenal. It is funny yet sexy and it keeps you on the edge guessing whats going to happen next. It is action packed and the sexy macho men are amazing a must read.