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Title: Love Struck

Series: Miss Match #2

Author: Laurelin McGee

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: February 2, 2016

Welcome to a seductive world where two solo artists combine their talents-and their hearts-to make beautiful music together…

SHE’S GETTING INTO THE GROOVE 
Lacy Dawson is a young singer-songwriter with a record deal, a studio gig, and a serious case of writer’s block. After looking for love songs in all the wrong places, she finds inspiration at an online support group called Song Writers Anonymous. Thanks to one mysterious member who motivates her and inspires her, Lacy’s career is back on track. But is she ready to meet her sexy musical muse…face to face?

HE MAKES HER HEART SKIP A BEAT
Eli is definitely interested in hooking up with Lacy, aka “LoveCoda.” But between writing her new album and his band’s success, they can’t find the time to face the music-or each other-about their burgeoning online romance. All that changes when Eli and Lucy get booked on tour together. In person, the attraction is all too real and explosive. They both should walk away, but once they are in each other’s arms, there is no turning back…

GOODREADS LINK:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25398465-love-struck

I struggled with Love Struck for about the first 25%; some of it had to do with the fact that Lacy’s back story stretched a little too long and the other reason was because I had a hard time truly sensing Lacy and Eli’s feelings due to the third person perspective. It took me quite a while to understand what they truly needed and wanted out of their lives…out of their music…and from each other.

Once Lacy joined Eli’s band’s tour, the plot picked up and the level of angst rose because both Lacy and Eli had onscreen identities that had feelings for each other,  which gets further complicated when their desire for one another’s bodies as Lacy and Eli push them to make choices that not only alter their realities but also changes the virtual dynamics of who they are as LoveCoda and FolxNotDead27.

Laurelin McGee does a great job of illustrating Lacy’s sadness, writer’s block, and inability to do more than fake it since her fiancé’s death, but I had a hard time understanding her actions while on tour with Eli and Jax. I get that she had put all of her hopes and dreams in her virtual relationship with Folx, but she jumped to conclusions that could have easily been proven wrong and refused to face those facts even with her feelings for Eli growing.

Eli was a bit of a quandary for me as well. I’m not sure if it’s because he walked on egg shells around Jax and never really stood up for himself or if the decisions he made when it came to Lacy and Jax rubbed me the wrong way but I didn’t agree with how he handled most situations, which made it hard to connect with him regardless of how adorable I thought he was. BUT…he does make up for some of my issues with him when he goes all out at the end of the book to prove himself not only to Lacy but to himself as well.

Love Struck is a sweet story that will definitely appeal to readers who understand how music soothes the soul and how finding someone to confide in when loneliness becomes almost a second skin.

A complimentary copy was provided via NetGalley for an honest review.

3.5/4 Poison Apples

Laurelin McGee is the pseudonym of Laurelin Paige and Kayti McGee.

Laurelin Paige is the NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Fixed Trilogy. She’s a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters.

Kayti McGee is a Kansas City native who now calls Colorado home. When she isn’t writing, she’s making up recipes to go with her favorite books.