Owned
Lost in Oblivion #5
Lost in Oblivion #5
by Cari Quinn & Taryn Elliott
Releasing
May 23rd 2016
Rainbow Rage Publishing
Rainbow Rage Publishing
Music kept them going. Now it's torn them apart…
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . Owned (Lost in Oblivion, #5) . . .
Where to start? I got me a read that was sure to make me go . . . HELL Yeah!! One more time. I have not read any of the other books in this series, but that will change and soon. The author has made sure of that. (See below) I may have walked in on the Oblivion wagon in the midst of it all but I was in no way sadden that I missed the beginning. There was much here to push you forward and make you want to go back and take a look at what got them all to this point. This was not one single person or couples story. This was a story of the band. The group of guys and their gals. Their friendships. Their heartache. Their tests and trials of life. There was more focus on a group but for me I saw it as a group story.
If you have kept up with the series I have to say that you are in a very good position to move forward and love what you get. If like me and you have walked in. You will want to make an effort to learn more about these people, this band, and the lives they are each working to achieve.
This tag-team effort put forth by Cari Quinn & Taryn Elliott has produced some intense work. There was drama. The feelings and senses come to play. You will use them. You will feel. You will fall a little bit in love. This was not like a typical series. You get a full surround sound story.
**This ARC was provided
via Tasty Book Tours in exchange for an honest review.**
Lost in Oblivion series:
Seduced - Lost in Oblivion,, #0.5
Rocked - Lost in Oblivion, #1
Rock, Rattle, and Roll - Lost in Oblivion, #1.5
Twisted - Lost in Oblivion, #2
Untwisted - Lost in Oblivion, #2.5
Destroyed - Lost in Oblivion, #3
Consumed - Lost in Oblivion, #3.5
Committed - Lost in Oblivion, #3.7
Shattered - Lost in Oblivion, #4
Gifted - Lost in Oblivion, #4.2
Fused - Lost in Oblivion, #4.5
Owned - Lost in Oblivion, #5
Blurb
Book 5 of the rockstar series, Lost in Oblivion.
Seduced - Lost in Oblivion,, #0.5
Rocked - Lost in Oblivion, #1
Twisted - Lost in Oblivion, #2
Untwisted - Lost in Oblivion, #2.5
Destroyed - Lost in Oblivion, #3
Consumed - Lost in Oblivion, #3.5
Committed - Lost in Oblivion, #3.7
Shattered - Lost in Oblivion, #4
Gifted - Lost in Oblivion, #4.2
Fused - Lost in Oblivion, #4.5
Owned - Lost in Oblivion, #5
Blurb
Book 5 of the rockstar series, Lost in Oblivion.
Music
kept them going. Now it's torn them apart…
Guitarist
Nick Crandall lost the most important thing in his life—his band—just as he was
falling in love. A year has passed, and Oblivion is returning from hiatus. And
Nick is ready to ask Lila to spend forever with him, even if he won't have his
best friend at his side for the ceremony.
Simon
has spent the past year trying to find his way back to the thing that sustained
him in his darkest hours, then grew to be his biggest demon. Margo has been at
his side, but she's tired of him denying his dreams. With her help, he’s ready
to admit it’s showtime.
Perhaps
he's even ready to stand up for his best friend…and face him on the stage that
united them so long ago.
It’s
do or die, one more time.
**The
guys—and their women—are in the driver's seat in Owned, and the ride's gonna
rock. This is the final book in the Lost in Oblivion rockstar series.**
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- Untwisted, book 2.5
Simon’s chest constricted.
The crash of piano and soaring blend of Margo’s strings was as powerful as it
was haunting. He’d been expecting a lively jaunt. Jazz had demanded Frank
Turner for more than half the ride up from the city.
But no. It was a passionate
and sweeping song that had more in common with an epic battle of man and
nature. In his head it felt like there should be a piano on top of a cliff a la
90’s Bon Jovi videos in MTv’s heyday.
Jazz’s fingers dove up and
down the keys and Margo followed her as if she was tethered to every note. The
song got bigger and bigger and he itched to match it.
He couldn’t remember the last
time he’d found the urge to sing. He sang lately out of spite. To prove that he
could. But the actuality of the pull had him so out of sorts that he had his
hand on the doorknob to the room before he knew what he was doing.
Jazz looked over her shoulder
when the door opened. Her purple tipped lashes fluttered so wide they touched
her eyebrows. He quietly sat on the stool with the winding arm. Tension fried
the edges of every nerve. Why the hell did his fingers ache? He looked down at
the white of his skin under his nails from the death grip he had on the arm.
He could do this.
He released the chair arm.
It wasn’t the box.
The room he’d practiced in
before.
He was used to the closet in
Ripper Records. It gave him cold sweats, but he was used to it.
Here he was in front of Jazz.
Sitting right beside her.
In front of strangers.
In front of Margo. He kept
the music separate from her for so long, it was odd to have her in his space.
Jazz handed him her notebook.
He took it with shaking
fingers. He cleared his throat. “Play it through from the top?”
Jazz nodded. He hummed his
way through it once, scanning her lyrics as he followed along. When they went
through it a second time his brain was on fire to join in. He wanted his voice
to match that sound.
Around the last quarter of
the song, he let the words out in a whisper. Margo brought down the power of
her strings to account for his sheer cowardice.
He cleared his throat.
“Again.”
He closed his eyes and let
the music take him. This time there was a guitar added into the lilting opening
of the song. His voice was rough with disuse.
No, don’t
concentrate on that.
He needed to find the heart
of the song.
Jazz’s words were heartfelt,
but they weren’t quite his. He followed instincts that had never steered him
wrong before. He changed the bridge and let his voice soar up with the epic
battle of violin and piano.
His voice evened and went
bell clear as he climbed up an octave he hadn’t touched in two full years. He
bowed his head as Gray came in with the guitar solo that hadn’t been there the
first few times through.
But it was right.
Logan piped it in from the
main studio.
Gray and Margo merged until
there was nothing but a breathtaking crescendo. He stepped in. His voice ached
with the loss that was burned into the lyrics. His head fell back as he brought
it full circle with the final verse, and finally…the bridge.
The room was silent.
He was terrified to open his
eyes. He avoided both of the girls as he twisted in the chair and went out the
door and past a stunned Gray. He couldn’t look at Margo. Not now. He couldn’t
watch when the disappointment filled her big brown eyes.
He took the stairs two at a
time and scanned the area for the nearest exit.
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USA Today bestselling
author Cari Quinn likes music and men, so she figured
why not write about both? When she's not writing, she's screaming at men's
college basketball games on TV, playing her music too loud or causing trouble.
Sometimes simultaneously.
USA Today bestselling author Taryn Elliott is
obsessed with rock stars, men, and her unending playlists--maximizing these
things seemed like a very good idea. When she's not writing, she's losing hours
to hot men on TV, and/or a graphic design project. Multitasking is her middle
name.
They decided to combine forces and found that hey...this writing deal is even
more awesome when you collaborate with your best friend.
And so Lost in
Oblivion was born.
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