BXTCHES Gotta Warn: Revel is the brother of Landon, who was the hottie featured in Blindsided (review here) and I cannot believe I am about to say this. . .BUT. . .you don’t need to read Blindsided in order for you to enjoy Revel. In fact, the only mention of Landon in this book is during conversation. Now, I can admit that I am someone who judges my books by the covers, at least initially, but if ever there were a cover that told the story of character, it is this one and trust a BXTCH when I tell you that it’s to a T.
Revel will be told through the POV’s of both Taylan and Revel.
Even though it’s not necessary for you to read Blindsided (however, you totally should), that story does cover some basics, though some are briefly covered within this book. For example, Revel’s parents died when he was young and his grandmother (Oma) raised him and his siblings. His sister Jenna (Landon’s twin) passed young and his older brother Grant and Grant’s wife have also passed away, leaving their five children to Landon (which is the centerpiece of his story).
I’m not sure if you took the time to read the blurb, but in case you didn’t here you go. . .Revel Slade is the frontman of the band Revved. . .Taylan Ash is a pop princess who was born into the life. I’m sure you can guess at how well her and Revel get along, which is to say not at all. And just to put the pieces of the puzzle together for you. . .Taylan is the daughter of Jory, who is the CEO of Ash records. . .Hensley (also an artist) is the ex-girlfriend of Revel who fucked Jory, which is why she’s an ex. Don’t worry I’m not spoiling anything you wouldn’t have found out after the first couple of pages. And we can’t forget about Breckin, who is Taylan’s ex. Guess who’s all going on tour together? That’s right. . .Revved, Taylan, Hensley, and Breckin. . .along with some others who aren’t really spotlighted. This is some six degrees of separation shit. Not only are different genres coming together, but Revel and Taylan have a past that does not scream friends, hell it doesn’t even scream “Remember that one time I said ‘hi’ as I walked past you?”, so surely you can imagine how smoothly this tour will go.
Because of her past run-ins with Revel, some of those that surround Taylan. . .more specifically her dad and Breckin. . .are really trying to convince her to back out of the tour, which just adds more fuel to her already growing need for independence, individuality, and a crazy urgency to break free from the Princess of Pop title that has her shackled in chains that she is dying to burst out of. Which is why she is doing this tour. . .for herself.
The struggle for Taylan is real. She epitomizes what it means to be a people pleaser. She’s not 100% sure her dad actually cheated and she’s not in a place where she really wants to know, which is a conflict for her. She has a love/hate thing for Revel, she loves to look at him (who wouldn’t), she loves to watch him perform, but she hates who he is as a person. . .until she doesn’t.
Revel is everything you would expect from a tormented rock star. He lives the life on and off the stage and makes no apologies for his choices. But like any tortured soul, the darkness is what surrounds him and it takes rock bottom for the light to shine through.
One would think that the heart of this story takes place during the tour and while a good part of it does, after the tour is also important. So, I guess what I could/should say is that the guts of the book takes place during the tour, while the heart of the book is the after.
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Shey Stahl does a wonderful job of focusing the spotlight on Revel and Taylan while allowing the supporting characters to shine through in a way that doesn’t take away from the ones telling the story and still adds the necessary layers of depth. She was able to give us a supporting cast that brought lightness to a story that got pretty heavy at times. She has the ability to develop characters so well, that she’ll leave you wondering when you’ll get sink into ‘their’ particular story.
We know that our rockstar is tortured, we know that his soul is a bit dark, we also know that he is smoking hot (that’s me judging the cover), but taking his profession into consideration. . .the hotness is kinda given, so it should be expected that his skills in the bedroom, backstage, under the stage, the tour bus. . .I’m sure you get it. . .are on par with the skills that he displays on stage and you wouldn’t be wrong. However, let’s not talk about the sex, let’s talk about the tension. It is so thick between Taylan and Revel, that even I was ready to pop. Revel kicks it off a little crass, but it doesn’t take long for things to get good and dirty, which is how this BXTCH prefers things and I’m not gonna spoil things, but know this. . .when you get to the portion of the programming where they finally do fuck, you may wanna have a pen and paper handy, because taking some notes might help us all a bit.
I will give you BXTCHES one more warning about Revel, well maybe a couple more. I didn’t one click it immediately, I knew once I began, it was gonna be damn near impossible to stop and it was, so you should know that going in. Also, this isn’t a girl meets boy, boy sweeps girl off her feet and they fall in love where they live happily ever after. This story requires them to step in and through some shit to make it to the other side. Not only are there a lot of topics in play with Revel. . .there’s addiction and cheating and scandals and discovery, but there will be a lot of emotions in play as well. . .it’s funny, it’s angsty, it’s heartbreaking, it’s gonna piss you off, it’s love. . .just be ready to sweep through the gamut of them all.
I’ve gone over this before, but Shade is the story that introduced me to Shey Stahl and while I can get captivated quite easy while reading a book, there was something about that particular book that hooked me. It was every element of the story. . .from the character development to the storyline to the way she presented the story. It had me craving more, just to see if it was that book or all of her books. Spoiler alert: it was all (so far). Now, I haven’t made it through her entire library (yet), but I did discover that she was quickly becoming one of my faves.
Revel was everything it was promised to be. Taylan is gonna check off a lot of boxes. It doesn’t take long to realize that she had been forcing her personality into a square shaped hole for far too long and all it took was going on tour with a damaged rock star for her to finally say fuck em’ all, she’s about live life on her terms. I mean, who couldn’t get behind that kind of woman. Revel isn’t perfection. In fact a good chunk of the time he is gonna be an asshole and you’ll have to get through all the flaws and all the scars to really see who he is, but the beauty is wading through it and taking that journey.
