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When Dee Dawson meets sexy mohawked guitarist Joel Gibbon, she knows it won’t be long before she has him wrapped around her finger. No guy has ever been able to resist her� but Dee’s met her match in a player like Joel.

Dee’s not the relationship type—not after seeing the pain “love� has caused her friends and family—yet she’s desperate to make Joel want her more than anyone else. He quickly becomes an obsession, and when a reckless attempt to make him jealous ends in disaster, Dee turns into the damsel in distress she never wanted to be. With her carefree world crashing down around her, the last thing she needs is Joel’s pity.

But Joel is suddenly determined to prove he cares, and no matter how hard Dee tries to push him away, he refuses to let her shut him out. Now the girl who swore she’d never say those three little words must choose between guarding her heart and losing Joel forever� or falling head-over-heels for the tattooed rock star of her dreams.

384 pages, ebook

First published February 10, 2015

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Jamie Shaw

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International bestselling author JAMIE SHAW lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their two young sons. When she’s not busy writing or trying to corral two boys under the age of three, she loves binge-reading books, binge-watching TV, and binge-eating cake pops. With her M.S. in Professional Writing, Jamie crafts romances with relatable heroines and swoon-worthy leading men. She loves interacting with her readers, and she always aims to add new names to their book boyfriend lists.





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654 reviews474 followers
August 1, 2017
Und wie vermutet habe ich das Buch noch heute beendet. Was soll ich sagen? Diese Reihe macht einfach süchtig! Ich hatte erst Angst, dass mir Band 2 nicht mehr so sehr gefallen wird, weil Dee und Joel doch zwei sehr eigenwillige Protagonisten sind. Aber ich fand sie klasse und auch ihre etwa ungesunde Beziehungsdynamik hat mich total in ihren Bann gezogen. Auch wenn die beiden manchmal etwas irrational rüberkamen konnte ich ihr Handeln dennoch immer auf zumindest emotionaler Ebene irgendwie nachvollziehen. Und achtjährige apropos emotional: das Buch hat mich echt mitgenommen und total abgeholt, was sowohl lachen als auch weinen angeht. Ich befürchte ich muss direkt mit dem dritten Band weitermachen morgen #sorrynotsorry
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1,507 reviews82 followers
August 10, 2016
Okay, i admit it!!! I was so fuckin' wrong!!!!!

I never thought that this story could be better than Adam's and Rowan's story, but it was so captivating!!
If that is possible... i liked it much more!!!

Riot was much prettier than Mayhem!!!
I thought that Adam was the best, but guess what???
I couldn't imagine that Joel could be much better than Adam!!!
DAMN! He was so hot!!!!!


Oh God! That story was making me feel lots of things...

In the begging it was funny and makes me smile all the time...

In some point i was so angry with both of them...

After i was relaxed by the development...

But then... I was feeling heartbreaken and very disappointed about them...

God damn it!!! I even cried in some fuckin' scenes!!!

(Okay, not some much, but some tears slept on my cheek...)

Dee and Joel wasn't easy persons... They were both alike...
They were players and they liked casual sex, no stings attached and they didn't like to get close with other persons in emotional way!!!
But when they've been together was steamy and intense...

Their lifes were so fucked up and they couldn't get through this mess...
Dee was worst of him in the heart matters.

At least, he was trying!!!
But in some points, i wanted so bad to hurt him also!!!
They made some terrible mistakes both of them but at the end they turned from losers to winners... and they earn something precious...


I really liked their story even the anticipating feelings that go through in me all the time...
It was a heartbreaking story but was so worthy to read about it....


Oh, God!!! July is so far away for Shawn and Kit's story... How am i supposed to live with this agony inside me????
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2,313 reviews724 followers
March 8, 2018

1.75 stars

What a dysfunctional book this was 😕

I m pretty disappointed actually...

But there were parts I liked but not enough to surpass the fuckin mess these two characters brought upon themselves and upon myself while I was actually trying to justify their actions...

But honestly, they were just both insecure and immature fuck ups that clearly had trusting issues and they 'solved' their problems of undefined personalities by fucking-constant fucking each other, then with other people, then with each other, then I m not sure what their "status" was...but it sure brought more fucking...

Just because you spew words like "I love you", "I love you so fucking much" and you dont really extend those words to deeds, you are just a loud mouth and these words mean shit...

Yeah, I guess I hoped that after being terribly annoyed and frustrated with the actual whoring out of both characters, at 20% of the book, things did somewhat turned towards tolerable, BUT, then the shit just rolled down into more immature, stubborn and stupid actions that the characters turned into fucking caricatures without any believable clause or action...

Disappointing...
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2,411 reviews83.9k followers
July 15, 2022
in 2017 i read (and hated) an entire series of romance novels without adding them to my update feed, due to (presumably) masochism and self-hatred. here is the evidence of that mistake full review:


i don't know why i'm going to read this whole goddamn series, but i'm going to read this whole goddamn series.

this was not fun at all. i did learn about myself that i can never find anyooooone attractive if they have a mohawk, even if it's a fictional character and even if my time would be spent a lot more entertainingly if i could find said fictional character attractive.

the characters from the last book kept showing up but they were like totally different people. if you told me that this book was written by a totally different author - like, that jamie shaw isn't real and someone handed some writer a list of names and was like "they're in a band" and that was all the info given, i'd buy it.

why did i write so much? i'm not even adding this to my update feed.

i need to go to bed.
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1,325 reviews133 followers
April 20, 2024
"I don't need you to be my knight in shining fucking armor."
"Good, because I'm not your fucking Prince Charming!"

4.25 stars
Well, Joel sure isn't Prince Charming and he's not really my type BUT I really love this.
I have to admit that with the other books in the series there was always something that connected me with the female main character. I haven't yet found this with Dee, even after reading this for six times. She's everything I am not. (That isn't a bad thing but I enjoyed the others books a little more because of the connection.)
The story is basically Dee and Joel. Ups and downs, lots of sex and some more drama.
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1,529 reviews801 followers
February 6, 2016
0 stars

I had a whole review written for this and then I got to 83% and I just wanted to strangle both the H/h. This shit deserves 5 stars just because two absolutely horrific people found each other and, as of now, aren't breeding into the general population. I can handle drama, but the whole date-rape bullshit and then the 2 OW and his new apartment.

Just...No.

Original rant below.

Ok...sloppy seconds or thirds on a regular basis...just...ewwwwww.

“Joel usually begins the night with someone else—or a few someone elses—and on nights I’m not around, he goes home with them. But on nights I am around, I always end up winning his attention."

And that's supposed to be fucking impressive?!?!? For your h?????Sorry...that's not liberated, that's pathetic with a side of no self-respect. Or someone with a manipulative endgame.

Almost DNF'd right there.

Then...with no key to get on the tour bus, she fucks him in the parking lot in the bed of a random truck.

Classy.

Considering the slut shaming in the first book... *!!MIND BLOWN!!* ...then again the only slut shaming was the groupies. And this h...very groupie vibe.

Now add this in....

“The sight of him—this unbelievably hot fucking rock star who could have had any girl he wanted tonight—savoring the taste of me . . .�

And I see endgame manipulator. I'm not liking the h...or H. And only 5% in, hmmm.....

And a few pages later:

“Joel is a game.� [says the h]
“And what’s the prize if you win?�

Ummm...endgame, anyone?

Why do they have a tour bus at the venue when they're playing their hometown and don't seem to be on tour?

Oh...it's their fuckpad. My bad.

I need to stress that I feel date-rape is not acceptable under any circumstances. I would find Cody guilty of a sexual assault charge in a red hot minute. But I find the h's behavior absolutely abhorrent. It is not liberated or modern or ok on any level to get drunk, lead a man on who you know wants to fuck you. It's wrong to maul him in public, let him believe you are willingly, excitedly going some place in private to fuck, let him get the private party started in a very intimate way, then say no...ALL BECAUSE SHE ONLY WANTED TO PISS OF HIS BAND MATE HER REGULAR FUCK-BUDDY. I'm not saying she should say yes, or he's right in forcing her, I'm saying she should never put herself in that position to begin with. While men have the responsibility to hear and respect NO, women have the responsibility to not be the kind of hoochie the h was. Sorry, but personal responsibility works both ways.

I'm not DNFing this because I have to KNOW how this horror show ends. I'm sure everyone will hate Cody and think the h was just a victim. Sorry. But at one point, you just have to be responsible for your own part in the fiasco. He was wrong. But that doesn't make her behavior right.

Before I get hate comments, I am also the victim of sexual assault, so I say all of this from that lens. Women have a responsibility for themselves and their actions. Period. We have the right to be unmolested in any situation, that should be golden, but we don't have the right to behave the way this h did, for the reasons she did.

I feel for her as she goes through processing what's happened to her, I only wish the author had not made her so complicit in the situation. It makes it hard to completely sympathize. Sorry, I have a strong personal responsibility streak.

Oh god, this girl :/
Sex without protection, cuz with these two that's smart.
If there's baby drama in this book, I'm gonna hurt my kindle.

No babies, just a shit ton of OW.
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615 reviews
April 22, 2017
Ach war das toll 😍

Den ersten Band habe ich ja letzte Woche gelesen und ich war so froh, dass ich nicht lange auf "Rock my Body" warten musste 😀.
Trotzdem habe ich nicht erwartet, dass dieser Band auch wieder 5 Sterne von mir bekommen wird, denn Dee fand ich im ersten Band zeitweise etwas anstrengend und Joel ist einfach nicht... naja Adam.

Dee hat mich überrascht und ihre Geschichte hat mich wirklich berührt. Im Laufe des Buches ist sie mir immer sympathischer geworden und ich habe richtig mitgefiebert und mit beiden mitgelitten. Auch Joel habe ich mit der Zeit immer mehr ins Herz geschlossen, auch wenn mir Adam immer noch besser gefällt 😍.

Insgesamt hat mir Band 2 fast so gut gefallen wie "Rock my Heart" und ich freue mich schon richtig auf Band 3 und damit auf die Geschichte von Shawn 😁.

Dieses Buch kann ich jedem empfehlen der gerne New Adult liest, vielleicht eine kleine Schwäche für Rockstars (😍) hat und gerne mit den Charakteren mitfiebert /lacht/weint 😉.
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545 reviews97 followers
June 23, 2018
As best friend of Rowan, Dee gets the same privileges, back stage passes best seats of house, however Dee meets the sex mohawk guitarist Joel. Dee hasn't met a man she could have and wrap around her finger until she meet Joel. Joel has no commitments he been sleeping on his friends couch since high school and doesn't own a car because he fears commitments, which is not a problem for Dee because her mother left her father, her and her brothers long ago and she vowed to never feel again.

Thats until she got obsessed with Joel, she was always trying to make him jealous thinking he would get mad and come to her until she took it too far. Joel came to her rescue and now she was the needy girl with triggers. Joel decided he wanted to take care of her he wanted to prove to her she could open her heart to him. The day came when he wanted her to chose him and she broke his heart and told him she don't care and Joel fell apart, but Dee was also miserable but would never admit she was falling in love with Joel and apart she was miserable. Dee was about to lose Joel forever and decide to take a leap in hopes the mohawk guitarist would catch her.
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971 reviews114 followers
January 18, 2021


I'm giving this another star too!
Dee and Joel's relationship was not paved with rose petals. They both had so many issues to overcome.... But I loved watching them fall apart seperately and then helping each other pick up the pieces and become whole together.


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442 reviews179 followers
July 29, 2017
Das Buch hat mir auch gut gefallen, war aber ein kleines bisschen schwächer als Band 1. Jetzt muss ich in die Stadt fahren um mir den 3. Teil zu kaufen :D Shawn *hust* 😍
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206 reviews9 followers
February 11, 2015
LADIES.......THERE IS SOMETHING THAT MUST BE BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION......IT MAY COME AS A HEART BREAKING DISAPPOINTMENT TO YOU ALL...AND SOME MAY WANT TO GO TO WAR......I ENCOURAGE YOU TO THINK ABOUT NOT DOING THAT ...JOEL GIBBON IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN READ HIS STORY BUT I SEE ANY DIBS CLAIMS ON HIM WHEN I ALREADY HOLD THAT TITLE......CHICKS BE GETTING SHANKED!!!!!!! YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST............SHEM HAS DIBS ON THE ROCK GOD THAT IS JOEL GIBBON. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED....
Now.....glad that has been cleared up.....back to my review. Riot is book two of the Mayhem series. After reading book one I was not sure how it could beaten....until JOEL GIBBON.....MINE!!!! This story is full of angst, oh holy hotness, rock band boys, sassy females, humour, banter and beautiful HOT AS HELL CHEMISTRY! My heart feels so full of love and excitement for this book, which should also come with a women's health warning because my ovaries exploded!
We met Dee in book one of the series and I instantly loved her. She is so funny and the kind of girl I would want as my best friend. She is the girl who DOES NOT AND WILL NOT chase the guy, in this game she is the mouse!!!! She wants to be WANTED, NEEDED AND PURSUED.
Dee has met her match with the rock star GOD that is Mine.....I mean Joel. He is everything she wants and NEEDS for her game. However it is one that he is not willing to play, because he is the guy who is used to getting the bit of skirt and likes the chase he gets from the girls. both characters like sex with each other, they like sex with other people.....and pretty much anyone or anything willing to put out. However, sometimes, games need to stop being played because people and those closest to you get hurt.
JOEL........OH MY OVARIES. I could kiss Jamie Shaw's face off for blessing the book world with this HOT, RIPPED, OVARY EXPLODING, ROCK GOD. But what really sold me, he has HEART which made me melt!!! *sits fanning herself*
This book is not fluffy with rainbows and unicorns, it is passionate and has one hell of an edge to it. It develops into this absolutely stunning story that has set up camp in my soul. At times I was screaming at my kindle, out of sheer frustration because in the end I was rooting for these two.
Jamie's Shaw's writing is absolutely FLAWLESS. She writes with a classy style and it is so real and relatable, it is not slow, it is not fast it is PERFECT. She makes you feel so many emotions for the characters, that you feel like you can actually call them friends.
Congratulations Jamie on this FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC book. I love you and can I just say you have gained yourself a stalker.........I mean fangirl..... for the rest of your life!
So, to anyone who has eyes in their head, you need to pick up this book, read it and fall completely in love with the story of Dee and Joel! Joel.......MINE!
5+++ STAR read for me! �
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341 reviews36 followers
April 21, 2017
5 perfekte Sterne für eine perfekte Story mit Protagonisten, die ich verdammt nochmal sehr sehr sehr gemocht habe.
Adam aus Teil 1 fand ich ja schon toll, Joel fand ich allerdings großartig! �
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1,034 reviews254 followers
January 10, 2016
4 I love you Stars
This was much better than book one. Though, I think I prefer Rowan over Dee.

What I liked
1. The band- as usual
2. The new band member
3. Dee's posse of usual suspects
4. The emotions the story pulled out of me
5. Joel
6. The 'non' relationship Dee and Joel eventually started building.
7. Dee's dad- I LOVED him.
8. All the little things & some big gestures by the couple for each other.
9. Dee during the last drama thing -she was a 'good' girl. That's. A. Major. Plus!

What I didn't love-
1. What Joel does over a course of time when the major last drama thing hits him in the face. It cheapened his feelings for Dee, in my opinion. I think his actions were just as hurtful as hers.
2. Dee during the last drama thing and how it hurt Joel. I wanted to fling her around, and shake her, and rage at her!
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1,260 reviews245 followers
July 7, 2017
Kann Spoiler zum Vorgänger enthalten!

Inhalt

Dee kann allen Männern den Kopf verdrehen, und nun ist der Gitarrist Joel dran! Seit Dees Freundin mit der Band The Last Ones to Know zu tun hat, knistert es gewaltig zwischen den beiden und immer wieder schlafen sie miteinander. Aber eben nicht nur miteinander, denn die Frauenwelt liegt Joel zu Füßen.
Beide haben eine genaue Vorstellung von Beziehungen, Dee weiß jedenfalls, dass sie keine haben will. Aber sie merkt schon bald, dass es sie nicht mehr glücklich macht, nur Joels Affäre zu sein und ihn auch oft mit anderen Frauen zu sehen ...

Protagonisten
Dee
hat mich irgendwie schon genervt mit ihrer Einstellung. Sie wollte, dass Joel sie will und alle anderen Frauen ihm egal sind. So weit ist das auch in Ordnung, aber sie wurde immer ein wenig hysterisch, wenn auch nur innerlich. Sie wurde wahnsinnig, wenn sie ihn mit anderen sah, aber sie wollte das auch nicht zugeben. Sie meinte immer, dass es wie ein Spiel ist und zog eine Beziehung nicht in Betracht, sie glaubte, dass Joel nur das körperliche interessierte. Der Leser sah aber viel mehr und konnte leicht erkennen, dass Dee total übertrieb. Sie hatte ein Problem in ihrer Familie und seitdem will sie niemanden lieben. Und da ist schon klar, wohin da führt. Immer wenn Joel Annäherungsversuche startet, weist sie ihn ab, gibt an, nur Sex zu wollen und das mehr auch gar nicht möglich wäre. Man tritt also ständig auf einer Stelle. Außerdem glaubt sie, dass Joel sie sofort verlassen würde, sobald sich eine bessere Möglichkeit für ihn bietet.

Joel
ist ein guter Typ. Es ist klar, dass er Dee sehr mag. Immer wieder tut er Dinge, die er mit anderen Frauen nicht tun würde, und das wird auch immer noch extra betont, damit es auch in Dees sturen Schädel geht, aber keine Chance. Er gibt sich jedenfalls Mühe, aber er handelt auch ein wenig nach dem Prinzip "Wenn sie nicht will, dann will ich sie auch nicht", wenn auch nicht so heftig und entschlossen wie Dee (ja, ich rege mich immer noch über Dee auf, an Joel gibt es nicht auszusetzen!). Vollständig Monogam ist er nicht (Dee ja auch nicht), aber das kann ich ihm ja nicht übel nehmen, wenn er nicht in einer Beziehung ist und Dees Verhalten ihn dazu motiviert.

Andere Charaktere

Natürlich hatten auch die anderen Mitglieder der Band und die Protagonisten der anderen Bücher ihre Auftritte. Adam und Rowan waren weiterhin süß, für Mikes Buch wurden wieder einige Kleinigkeiten erwähnt, aber vor allem Shawns Geschichte wurde vorbereitet. Kit ist nun in der Band, nachdem Cole große Probleme bereitet hat, und auch ihre Beziehung zu Shawn wurde enthüllt. Ich freue mich schon auf ihre Story!

Handlung und Schreibstil

Leider fand ich die Story nicht so spannend wie den ersten Teil, weil Dee mich unfassbar genervt hat. Es war alles so offensichtlich, aber Dees Komplexe standen allem im Weg. Sie waren wirklich das einzige Hindernis, und das macht für mich keine gute Story.

Fazit
"Rock my Body" hat mir leider nicht so gut gefallen wie der erste Teil, dafür war die Handlung zu vorhersehbar und außerdem standen nur Dees Komplexe dem Fortschritt der Story im Wege. Sie hat mich schrecklich genervt, aber ich freue mich trotzdem sehr auf die Fortsetzungen!
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57 reviews42 followers
May 11, 2016
This book scared me a little.

Why?
Because never in my life have I read something that so accurately depicted my own character in written form. Dee was me.

Every doubt, every smile, every tear. Hell, if I wasn't so sure that I hadn't been dropped as a child or suffered with retrograde amnesia, I'd be seriously questioning the non-existent relationship Jamie and I share. (I like to think we'd be the bestest pals if she knew I existed)

I guess the only difference between Dee and I is that whereas she has a rockstar boyfriend, I have a love for food and am epically single. I also want to stress that I haven't gone through even a smidge of what she went through, but I still believe we were secretly twins separated at birth.

In one word, Dee was relatable. In two, realistic.

And well, for me, she was one massive reality check, sealed inside a novel that seemed surprisingly like a therapy session for its entirety. Can't say I didn't learn a whole lot about myself. Now I just need to find my Joel and HEA...
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100 reviews23 followers
January 25, 2020
Für mich ist Band 2 „Rock My Body� der Mayhem Reihe schwächer als Band 1 „Rock My Heart�, da mich Joel & Dee je als Charakter nicht abholen konnten. Dee hat mich doch irgendwie das ganze Buch über ein wenig genervt, aber dennoch mochte ich ihre selbstbewusste Art sehr :) Dass sie ganz genau weiß wie gut sie aussieht ist nunmal eine schöne Abwechslung zu vielen unsicheren weiblichen Charakteren.

Trotzdem ist es meiner Meinung nach eine gelungene Rockstar-Geschichte, für welche mein Herz sowieso schlägt. Dee und Joel sind ein wirkliches tolles Paar zwischen denen es sicherlich auch im Laufe der Beziehung krachen könnte. Ich hoffe im 3. Band weiterhin von den beiden lesen zu können :)
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80 reviews33 followers
July 27, 2015
Rating: 4.5 / 5 stars

Riot is the second book in the Mayhem story, and it focuses on Dee & Joel this time. It can be read as a standalone.

This is a book about two players who refuses to put their hearts on the line because they don't want to see themselves getting hurt... put their hearts on the line for each other.

I was actually very surprised to see how much I ended up smitten, engrossed, and head-over-heels in love with this book. Especially since this is a sequel, and most sequels are either a hit or a miss. This book was a hit.

I was unsure of how I was going to feel about the book, since books that feature a "player" heroine and a "player" hero tends to make me not connect with them. It's not because I disapprove of how they use other people, or because I dislike how they think with their hormones and not with their heads, but because of their reasoning behind why they play the field instead. This is where Riot almost lost me, because the reason behind Dee playing the field was your typical, NA cliche where heroine sleeps around because she refuses to put her heart on the line and fall for someone who'll "eventually break her heart."

This book gave me a lot of heartache, I'll tell you that. In the beginning (and despite knowing that this is Joel & Dee's story), I was agreeing with Rowan & Leti when they were concerned over how she kept using Joel. That relationship between the two of them was not healthy, and I was glad that Rowan & Leti kept trying to call her out on it.

With such an unhealthy relationship, I wasn't sure where this novel was going to go. And then the trigger warning scene happened. Okay, it's not really a trigger-warning scene since it didn't actually happen. It almost happen, to the point where I was appalled and horrified that I didn't get the heads up.

Right then, that's when the book finally started getting to the good stuff. [FINALLY]. It's when we finally get to see the two players who refuses to put their hearts on the line fall for each other. And boy, do they fall for each other hard.

They are so freaking sweet to each other, so caring of each other, and there's an understanding between the two of them that no one else gets.

The both of them have been hurt by loved ones in their past (in both their cases, it's their moms), which is how and why they refuse to settle down. Literally. Dee refuses to settle down romantically, just as Joel refused to settle down at all (which explains a lot about why he kept crashing and sleeping in random places at friends' and bandmates' homes).

Things I liked about this book:

•How much Dee & Joel cared for each other
� The birthday gift Dee got for Joel. [Oh man, I cried while reading that scene]
� JOEL *HEART EYES*
� the side characters (like Rowan, Leti, Adam, Shaun, Mike)
� Dee's character development. (AWWW YISS)
� What a great friend Dee was. Like, I was so touched by the expenses she'd go to for her friends.


Things I didn't like about this book:

•The slut shamming. I was hoping that book 2 would tone it down from book 1, but... jesus christ.
� ANGST BROUGHT ONTO THE BOTH OF THEM BECAUSE OF LACK OF COMMUNICATION [THERE'S SO MUCH LACK OF COMMUNICATION B/T THE BOTH OF THEM ONCE THINGS START HEADING TOWARD A BETTER PLACE FOR THE BOTH OF THEM, THAT IT INFURIATED ME WHEN THEY LET A LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM GET IN THE WAY OF THEIR HAPPINESS
� Cody. I just... I'M SO UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT HIS SCENES IN THIS BOOK.
� the fact that Joel looooooooves her, but he didn't have any trouble sleeping around with other groupies (not that I should fault him, since they weren't truly exclusive. But man, if you truly love someone and wanted to prove to them that you did, the last thing you want to be seen is groping a bunch of chicks)


Overall, this book moved at a slower pace than Rowan's & Adam's book which was weird, considering that this book was shorter than {book: Mayhem]. I think that it was a good thing that the book moved at a slower pace, because this book was a lot more angsty and darker (because of the implied trigger warning scene), and because Dee needed some growing up and some character development before she got her happily ever after. The angst was overwhelming at times, but I didn't mind it since it was understanding--coming from the both of them. Some part was a bit too cheesy/overwhelming/straight out of a drama or romcom, but I, for the most part, knew that it was contrived just so there's more heartache for the both of them.

Joel > Adam. That's all I'm going to say. Joel won me over big time, but I think that has to do with the fact that I was bawling like a baby because his childhood was so... SAD. Adam was a sweetheart in his book, but Joel--DAMN. YOU JUST WANTED TO WRAP A BLANKET AROUND HIM AND FEED HIM HOT COCOA. I can't wait to read Shaun's and Mike's books next.

Would I recommend? Yes
Would I continue the rest of the series? HELL YES
Would I reread this again? Maybe
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763 reviews459 followers
September 30, 2015
3.5/5

I honestly wasn’t sure how to rate this book because reading this one was like I was on a roller coaster, shunting back and forth between frustration and pleasure. When I first read the blurb, it totally caught my attention and it sounded like the exact kind of book I like. But as soon as I dived into the first few chapters, I was somewhat disappointed with both Joel and Dee. I didn't like the way they played games with each other's hearts. They acted like they didn't take one another seriously.

Then something bad happened to Dee, and I felt like being flipped over because suddenly the story just got back on track, and it went directly into the way I wanted it to be. That was a big relief and I was so happy to see Joel and Dee changed their lives from bad to good. While they were spending more time together, they gradually let each other know more personal details and they were even more closely connected.

I really enjoyed the story until they broke up! Joel told Dee that he loved her. Instead of crying happy tears, she chased him away by telling him to go home! I knew she had love and trust issues, yet I still got annoyed with her. Well, after that, I tried to understand her and when I knew more about her past, I felt sympathy for her. When she realized that she truly loved him for so long and made a decision to tell him the truth, I was glad and wish they finally had their HEA.

This is a book that left my emotions all over the place. Some parts of the story made me frustrated, many parts of it made me rejoice though. There were things I liked about this book. I liked when Joel and Dee were together, they looked so cute! The chemistry between them was off the charts! I like Dee’s father, such a wonderful dad. I loved the strong bonds of friendship between Dee and Rowan. Moreover, I loved the warm friendship between the band members. These guys were seriously adorable, and it was hard not to swoon over them!

By the way, this story is a nice mixture of romance, humor, drama, and angst. Though the ending was a bit predictable, it was exactly what I wanted. I never get tired of the sweet endings!

I allowed myself more time to think about the whole story, I thought long and hard, and finally made up my mind to give this one 4 stars!

The next book in this series sounds good so I think I will give it a try.
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1,325 reviews133 followers
April 11, 2018
4,5 Sterne.
Auch hier muss ich mein Rating nach dem Reread ein wenig nach oben korrigieren. Ich konnte es nicht mehr weglegen und meine Abneigung gegen Joel und (teilweise) Dee hat sich auch gelegt, aber die beiden sind einfach Charaktere, in die ich mich nicht ohne weiteres hineinfinden kann und mir sind sie als BFF der Hauptcharaktere deutlich lieber.
Ich liebe diese Bücher einfach, fühle mich in dieser Welt mit ihren Charakteren unheimlich wohl und da macht auch dieses keine Ausnahme.
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2,220 reviews486 followers
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March 3, 2021
Spoilers ahead

Manwhore
Female equivalent
Sleep with each other
Both also sleep with others


In all this whoring around how effective are those condoms??I always think mcs like these should have sex in full coverage hazmat suits😂. Just seems like an alphabet soup of diseases to me.
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342 reviews50 followers
December 19, 2021
I’m happy I found this series. It’s like reading Off-campus, but instead of bulky sportsmen we get rebellious rockstars🤩

This one had a main heroine being a typical anti-heroine. She was sleeping around, didn’t care about her grades, and had almost no interest in settling down. Our anti-heroine met her match in the hero and the two had quite a bit back and forth. I deduct some stars because the drama in the end was a bit over the top, but overall I enjoyed it a lot. I can’t wait to read the rest!
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107 reviews13 followers
February 20, 2018
Adam und Rowan haben mich ein wenig mehr in den Bann gezogen, aber dennoch war die Geschichte um Dee und Joel großartig. :-) wirklich eine tolle Reihe die hoffentlich so weiter geht.
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1,557 reviews232 followers
February 15, 2015
I love a good rock star story and I really enjoyed this one. Dee and Joel were incredibly frustrating at times but I think they each had their reasons for how they were. My only complaint about this story was Also, to my friends who hate when the hero or heroine hooks up with other people Overall, I really enjoyed this story, I really like this series, and I'm looking forward to Shawn's story next!
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298 reviews330 followers
August 10, 2015
Even though I found Dee somewhat annoying several times I enjoyed the story overall and would recommend it. I loved getting to know Joel better. He surprised me in some really good ways.
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578 reviews95 followers
October 5, 2017
» INHALT «
Er ist ein Rockstar und erobert alle Herzen � doch an ihr könnte er sich die Finger verbrennen

Als Dee Dawson das erste Mal auf den sexy Gitarristen Joel der Band The Last Ones To Know trifft, weiß sie eines ganz genau: Auch ihn wird sie in kürzester Zeit um den Finger gewickelt haben! Schließlich konnte ihr noch nie ein Mann lange widerstehen. Aber in Joel hat sie ihr Gegenstück gefunden, denn auch er hat den Ruf, nichts anbrennen zu lassen. Zwischen ihnen sprühen sofort die Funken � in jeder Hinsicht, denn beide haben ihren ganz eigenen Kopf und klare Ansichten, was sie von festen Beziehungen halten. Und doch muss sich Dee bald eingestehen, dass sie mehr sein will, als nur Joels Affäre �

» MEINE MEINUNG «
Wer kennt es nicht? Man findet den ersten Band einer Reihe unglaublich gut und freut sich mega auf den Folgeband und dann erscheint er endlich und man verpasst es total? So erging es mir bei dieser Geschichte hier & ich war so geschockt, als jemand bei YT schon den dritten Band in die Kamera gehalten hat. Wie konnte das denn passieren?! Himmel, unglaublich! Also schnell angefragt, (btw: ich lese diese Reihe als eBook) zeitnah bekommen und sofort gelesen! Meine Meinung gibt es jetzt:


Der Einstieg hat mich zugegebenermaßen total überrumpelt. Alles beginnt mit einer sehr heißen Szene; also wirklich auch recht derb beschrieben und sehr, sehr eingehend und detailreich. Das war beim Vorgängerband eindeutig nicht der Fall, was mich anfangs echt überfallen hat. Allgemein hatte ich Band 1 nicht so wahnsinnig erotisch in Erinnerung; weswegen ich noch ein wenig verwirrter war. Doch kaum dass ich mich dran gewöhnt hatte, kam ich unheimlich gut voran. Auch die gewählte Kulisse in Form des Klubs, den wir ja schon kennen, hat direkt dafür gesorgt, wieder flüssig in die Geschichte rein zu kommen und sich an all das, was im ersten Band alles passiert und auch an alle Figuren wieder zu erinnern und gut mitzukommen, ohne lange Überlegungen anstellen zu müssen, wo was wann in "Rock my Heart" geschah. Ich empfehle auch ganz klar, die Reihenfolge dieser Bücher einzuhalten, denn obwohl immer wieder kurze Erklärungen auftauchen, ist der Lesespaß sicherlich größer, wenn man die Geschichte rund um Ro und Adam bereits kennt.



Zu den Figuren sage ich nun nicht mehr viel. Unsere Protagonisten sind uns bereits gut bekannt und die Charaktereigenschaften, die Joel und Dee in Band 1 hatten, übernehmen sie in Band 2 absolut nahtlos. Dee, unsere quirrlige beste Freundin, die keine Gelegenheit auslässt und ihr Leben in vollen Zügen genießt. Sympathisch, ausdrucksstark und charakterlich gefestigt - das waren die Stichpunkte, die mir als erstes durch den Kopf schossen, wenn es um Dee ging; doch in diesem Band lernen wir auch ihre verletzliche Seite kennen, die ihr erst so richtigen Tiefgang verlieh und sie erst authentisch machte. Dee hat mein herz im Sturm erobert und ihre Schlagfertigkeit brachte mich des Öfteren zum Grinsen. Ich muss gestehen, ich persönlich konnte nicht jede ihrer Handlungen immer nachvollziehen, und trotzdem verstand ich es; weil es einfach zu ihr und ihrem Charakter passte.

Joel war ein unheimlich interessanter Protagonist, mit einer Menge Geheimnissen und teils ziemlich geheimnisvoll. Es hat mir so großen Spaß gemacht, heraus zu finden, was sich hinter diesem Mann verbirgt; konnte kaum erwarten, mehr über seine Vergangenheit zu erfahren und all seine Seiten in Form von Ecken und Kanten kennen zu lernen. Rein optisch entsprach er zwar nicht meinem Traummann-Ideal, doch ich konnte mich trotzdem problemlos in ihn verlieben. Auch er schaffte es immer wieder, mich zum Strahlen zu bringen, sei es mit frechen Sprüchen oder aber mit seinem charismatischen Auftreten. Joel wuchs mir mindestens genau so ans Herz wie Adam, wenn nicht gar sogar ein gutes Stück mehr.

Ansonsten treffen wir, wie gesagt, auf so gut wie alle bereits bekannten Figuren wie Rowan und Adam, Shawn, Mike, Cody, Leti, usw. Sie alle trugen eine ordentlich Portion dazu bei, sich zu fühlen, als würde man auf alte Freunde treffen. Doch auch die neuen Charaktere fand ich sehr ansprechend und interessant gestaltet und genau so in die Geschichte eingebaut, um zu ahnen, dass man noch einiges mehr über sie lesen wird.



Der Stil von Jamie Shaw hat sich in keinster Weise verändert. Das Buch liest sich so unglaublich schnell und locker, dass ich gar nicht gemerkt habe, wie die Seiten dahin flogen. Leicht verständlich und trotzdem bildhaft und eingehend; exakt so würde ich den Schreibstil der Autorin bezeichnen. Ich hatte, wie schon in Band 1 stets ein klares Bild von den einzelnen Charakteren und Szenerien vor Augen und blieb trotzdem nicht an zu ausschweifenden Beschreibungen hängen. Lediglich bei den Sex-Szenen musste ich hin und wieder kurz durchatmen, da die, wie schon erwähnt, doch sehr detailliert dargestellt wurden; aber (!!) keineswegs schlecht! Im Gegenteil! Es war immer wieder sehr prickelnd und wer gern Erotik liest, wird sicher große Freude an diesem Buch finden. Geschrieben wurde übrigens abwechselnd aus Dee's und aus Joel's Sicht, was beide Charaktere noch näher an den Leser gebracht wurde und noch mehr Input rüber kam. Gefiel mir also unheimlich gut und ich hab rein gar nichts auszusetzen oder zu kritisieren.

Die Idee war natürlich altbekannt und vor allem altbewährt. Trotzdem war diese Rockstar-Basis bei Band 1 etwas völlig neues für mich und obwohl ich es jetzt bei Band 2 bereits kannte, war ich wieder positiv überrascht. Klar, ich verbinde dieses Buch natürlich auch mit den tollen Eindrücken vom Vorgängerband, aber nichts desto trotz fand ich die Grund-Idee sehr schön ausgearbeitet und mit einigen sehr interessanten Einflüssen aufgepeppt. Überraschende Wendungen sowie unerwartete Plots machten die Geschichte einfach spannend und mitreißend. Auch die Storyline überzeugte mich rund herum und zeugte von einer Menge Talent und Kreativität von Seiten der Autorin. Geschrieben wurde das Ganze übrigens rein aus der Ich-Perspektive aus Dee's Sicht - besser hätte man es nicht wählen können, meiner Meinung nach.


Zur Umsetzung verliere ich daher nicht mehr viele Worte. Hier treffen emotionale Spannung, Action und überraschende Plottwists aufeinander und machen es zu einer Geschichte, die einen einfach nicht mehr loslässt und regelrecht mitreißt. Ich war von der ersten Seite an voll und ganz drin und fand die einzelnen Szenen und Abläufe absolut einleuchtend und nachvollziehbar, sodass ich dem Geschehen gut folgen konnte und mich wirklich 'aufgenommen' fühlte, sowohl von der Story allgemein, wie auch von den Protagonisten. Einzig Manko an der gesamten Umsetzung: ich fand den Schluss etwas zu überstürzt. Da passierte mir die Auflösung zu schnell und zu übereilt abgehandelt. Das fand ich dann doch weniger glaubhaft, wenngleich es doch kein Beinbruch ist. Erwähnenswert empfand ich es dann doch.

» FAZIT «
"Rock my Body" von Jamie Shaw war doch eine Winzigkeit schwächer als der Vorgänger, und doch ein wundervoller, emotionaler und spannender Zeitvertreib. Wer gern lockerleichte New Adult Romane verschlingt und kein Problem hat mit etwas derberer Erotik, der wird Rock my Body garantiert mögen und genau so schnell inhalieren, wie ich es getan habe. Ebenso treffen wir aber auch auf liebenswerte Figuren und eine tolle Storyline, die nicht nur Potential hat, sondern auch (fast) alle meine Anforderungen erfüllt hat und mich begeisterte.

» 4.5 VON 5 STERNEN «
Ich vergebe 4.5 von 5 möglichen Sternen, einfach weil ich am Schluss doch etwas überfallen war von dem hektischen, eher weniger glaubhaften Schluss. Ansonsten eine rund herum gelungene Story und ich freue mich irrsinnig auf Band 3 dieser Quadrologie. �
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130 reviews4 followers
July 10, 2019
An einem Tag durchgesuchtet! Ich finde Dee toll, ich finde Joel toll und das Buch war einfach nur süß und schön und sexy und zum Nicht-Mehr-Aus-Der-Hand-Legen. Hat mir tatsächlich etwas besser gefallen als Band 1, auch wenn ich noch immer den ein oder andere Kritikpunkt in Sachen Glaubwürdigkeit/Realitätsnähe etc habe.
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