This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review.
About The Book
Here’s the same old “girl posing as a boy” story but with a rock-n-roll twist.
Remy Curran dreams of one day being in a band, except the group she wants to join refuses to hire a girl drummer. So, she auditions as a guy…and makes the cut.
Becoming “Sticks,” a member of Non-Castrato, isn’t quite what she dreamed it would be, though. She spends most of her time keeping up the subterfuge and learning how to walk, talk, act, and drink like a man.
But what’s even harder to deal with is acting oblivious when the band’s heartthrob lead singer, Asher Hart, treats her like one of the guys and not a woman. She never imagined he’d be so much more than a pretty face with a nice voice. But he’s better than perfect. He’s perfect for her.
When love and lies combine, Remy must keep up the act or lose everything. But who knew lying to reach one dream could prevent you from attaining an even bigger dream?
My Review
The Girl’s Got Secrets is the 7th installment, and I just had a blast with this book. This is a rock star romance but it’s also a mistaken identity with a heroine disguised as a male band player. I have to say seeing these dynamics I knew that I would be in for a good time and it definitely was the case. I had so much fun with this one here. The set up is that Remy wants to join the Non Constrato rock band, but they don’t accept female band members. So she poses as a man enough to get the part as the drummer. But as time goes by, Remy has a more difficult time in telling him the truth especially as feeling and emotion began to filter through their relationship. A friendship quickly forms between them that turns into something deeper.
I absolutely adored this book, despite the secret of what Remy keeps from Asher. It was pretty entertaining that Asher’s friends saw the truth before he did. And how there were multiple identities that happened with Remy. And when the truth comes out, it is explosive although I will say that it was highly entertaining. I found all these small moments with Asher and Remy to be so endearing. Their friendship is beyond captivating and seeing the way that Remy needs to grovel, well it was done just right. Normally when its the heroine, they hardly ever grovel at all, but in this one she does have to work for it. I really enjoyed the latino aspects of the story and the Spanish dialogue that is used here. I also got a kick out of the whole friendship team especially Ten and Pick. Definitely had an entertaining time with this and the ending was beyond stunning and put this as a win for me.
Title: The Girl’s Got Secrets
Author: Linda Kage
Genre: New Adult Romance
Format: eBook
Source: Owned/Self Purchased
Length: 426 Pages
Book Links
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Book Evaluation
Storytelling Quality: 4.25
Story Itself: 4.5
Character Development: 4.5
Writing Style: 5
World Building 4.5
Feels + The Romantic Heart 4.25
Pacing 5
Plot 5
Cover Art 4
Ending 5
Book Ratings
Overall Rating of the Book
Steam Level
Simmering—soft warm touches and light intimacy
Warm- a medium level of sexual tension, a balance of sexual and emotional intimacy, lighter on the details in the sexual moments.
Steamin’ up the room -the sexual content is more explicit in the language and tone, heavier amount of sexual scenes.
Blazing fire to the building-The prime focus is the sex scenes, scorching hot, and could burn one. Less focus on the emotional intimacy to the relationship.
Series Order
Forbidden Men
Price of a Kiss-Pub 2013 #1 in the Series
To Professor, With Love-Pub 2014 #2 in the Series
Be My Hero-Pub 2014 #3 in the Series
With Every Heartbeat-Pub 2015 #4 in the Series
A Perfect Ten-Pub 2015 #5 in the Series
Worth It-Pub 2015 #6 in the Series
The Girl’s Got Secrets-Pub 2015 #7 in the Series
Priceless-Pub 2016 #8 in the Series
Consolation-Pub 2016 #9 in the Series
The Price of Mason-Pu 2018 #10 in the Series
About The Author
Linda writes romance fiction from YA to adult, contemporary to fantasy. Most Kage stories lean more toward the lighter, funner side with a couple meaningful moments thrown in that center around love and hope. Focuses more on entertainment value and emotional impact than realism. She likes the drama and crazy, over-the-top plots that make you cry then laugh, get mad then sigh happily.
Published since 2010. Went through a 2-year writing correspondence class in children’s literature from The Institute of Children’s Literature. Then graduated with Bachelors in Arts, English with an emphasis in creative fiction writing from Pittsburg State University.
Now she lives with hubby, two daughters, cat Holly, and nine cuckoo clocks in southeast Kansas, USA. Farm girl. Parents were dairy farmers. Was youngest of eight. Big family. Day job as a cataloging library assistant.
Harry Potter House Gryffindor, Patronus White Stallion, character match Hagrid. Supernatural Team Dean. Game of Thrones Team Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister. The Walking Dead Team Daryl. Outlander Team Jamie Fraser. Teen Wolf Team Stiles. Avenger Team Thor…or Hulk (can’t decide). Justice League Team Flash. Arrow Team Stephen Amell. Stranger Things obsessed. Heard Laurel, not Yanny.
Started out reading with the Baby-Sitters Club. Then moved to Sandra Brown, Linda Howard, Julie Garwood, and LaVyrle Spencer in high school. Now all over the place with her romance reading tastes.
Oh, you got my attention with the review and description. I think I’d enjoy it with her pretending to be a guy in a rockband and then having to take the consequences when her secret comes out.
I can see some problems when she’s pretending to be a guy but likes one of the bandmates. lol Sounds fun.