Replay
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
When the heart-rending mistakes of your past are stuck on repeat, you're destined to replay every painful beat.
Rock guitarist Spook Mortensen never had trouble keeping his desires in check until Alle Hutton gate-crashed his life and reignited his libido. Now his life's careening out of control.
With Black Halo about to embark on their first official cruise and Alle along for the trip, Spook knows that not succumbing to temptation will require constant vigilance and ingenuity.
Alle's determined to prove to Spook—and everyone else—that his deviant desires don't make him a monster, and she's willing to put her heart on the line to prove it. But being in love doesn't mean she's blind to reality. She knows Spook's keeping secrets and that coaxing them out of him will be as, if not more, challenging than enticing him to explore their sizzling chemistry. Luckily, she's always up for a challenge.
When the return of a figure from Spook's past leaves him emotionally untethered, Spook and Alle's burgeoning relationship is put to the ultimate test. When trust is compromised, only the truth will suffice. But can their relationship survive the revelation?
Replay is an angsty, spicy, heart-wrenching rockstar romance with flawed characters and intense friendships, in which secrets emerge, loyalties are tested, and past mistakes hold fast with a tenacious grip. Prepare to have your heart ripped out and stomped on.
This is the second novel in the Off the Record series and forms part of the wider Black Halo world. These books are intended to be read in order.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Dear gods, this broke me. As in, left me ugly-sobbing and curled in a ball, with my family thinking someone had died." Goodreads Reviewer.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Rock star book excellence. I love this series…"
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "I would definitely not only recommend this book but the whole Black Halo series." Amazon Reviewer.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Just wow!!" Goodreads Reviewer.
DEEP DIVE INTO THE WORLD OF BLACK HALO:
XANE: (Come Undone, Come Together, Come Alive.)
ASH: (All Night Long, All Fired Up, All Right Now.)
SPOOK: (Off the Record, Reflex, Replay, Refrain, Revive)
ROCK GIANT: (Reckless Beat)
Customer Reviews
Heart breaking, dramatic, haunting
REPLAY is the second instalment in Madelynne Ellis’ contemporary, adult OFF THE RECORD dark, erotic, rock romance series -a part of the Black Halo world. This is the continuing story of rock guitarist Jan ‘Spook’ Mortensen, and sound engineer Allegra ‘Alle’ Hutton. REPLAY should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up after the events and cliff hanger of book one REFLEX.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise there WILL BE triggers for more sensitive readers including BDMS and same $ex scenarios.
Told from several omniscient third person perspectives including Spook and Alle REPLAY picks up after the events of book one. Black Halo has opted for a smaller tour as several members of the band are either on leave, have quit or are struggling within their personal lives but none more so than guitarist Spook Mortensen. Along with his ‘girlfriend’ Alle Hutton, Spook battles his demons that refuse to let go but as their journey through Europe brings Spook closer to home, the demons he has yet to address, take hold, and threaten Spook’s tenuous hold of his fragile psyche. Lines will be blurred then crossed, heart will be broken and crushed, secrets will reveal the true extent as to Spook’s shattered and splintered existence.
The world building continues to focus on Spook and Alle’s building relationship but also Spook’s friendship and dependency with Xane Geist. The world is about to be shown a monster they never knew existed but a monster that was created by someone else.
All of the previous story line secondary and supporting characters return. Alle’s brothers are about to destroy the man with whom she has fallen in love; and Spook’s past is about to reveal a fictionalized account of what happened in the past.
REPLAY is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, abuse and hatred, power and control. The character driven premise is heart breaking, dramatic and haunting-the complexity of Spook’s demons is dangerous and dark; the romance struggles in the face of secrets; the characters are broken, perhaps beyond repair.
HEED MY WARNING-this is NOT a story for everyone. There are issues that will trigger some readers; there are scenes both in the present and memories from the past that are graphic and heart wrenching. REPLAY ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.