Micro-Review: Heart of Rock by Karyn Gerrard

Heart of Rock by Karyn Gerrard

My Rating: 3 of 5 Stars

I have mixed feelings about this book, in all honesty. I like the broken man needing healing angle, sure, but he really hits rock bottom at the beginning and it’s hard to like Brogan at all. However, as he’s forced to clean up and he realizes just how bad he’d gotten, he kind of grew on me. I like Carly, especially for how she manhandles Brogan, but she gets reckless with him. I appreciate his transformation and her role in making it happen, but I don’t know how much I liked exactly how it played out. Their love scenes weren’t bad, but I think I liked their general chemistry better.

I loved a few of the secondary characters and I’m disappointed we don’t get more of them, such as Brogan’s brothers and Carly’s right hand man, Gio (he was definitely my favorite). Overall, I just didn’t fully connect with our hero and heroine, maybe due to how little we really know about them beyond one character-defining experience, and I felt their relationship developed too quickly and easily, though the ending was realistic and heartwarming.