No comments? Though a 4.5 score. This Star-crossed series has beautiful tender scenes ... I get it: what is there to say?

The cover blurb says this is a series where regular guys meet famous ones. In books #1 and #2 the regular guys are as far from rock star groupies as you can get - they haven't heard of the famous person.

Ben, a college student who lives in the cocoon of his Baptist religion, meets Marco, a kid who liked music and suddenly found rock star fame with his friend Zane. Marco is older, though still in his 20s I think, and is the regular guy when it comes to sexual experience. He's drawn to the beauty and naivety of Ben who has never been kissed or held, and is full of need to experience something/anything before following his lot in life of being matched with a pretty equally naive girl and having children.

So in these stories, the rock stars get to cross paths with regular people and be themselves - not their images or stage personas or media myths. This premise has a wonderful innocence of discovery and being discovered without the impositions of the 'real world'. And with Lisa Henry's gift for creating magic when two people connect, these relatively short sweet novels are magnetic.

You would search hard to find a more magically romantic series than this one.

I read the 3 novels out of sequence, this one last, but it was thrilling to meet Carter and Noah again - and have narrator Gary Furlong reaching for the Aussie accent for Noah. And there was reference to Xander, Zane's motocross star brother, whom we meet in book #3.

I've listened to the audiobooks, so I get the bonus of Gary Furlong bringing the characters to life.

I just looked up his website where he says: His narrations have been praised for their engaging, captivating, and immersive qualities, with reviewers noting his ability to bring characters and stories to life through his voice acting.

No hyperbole there! - that exactly describes his narrations. His voice is "warm, friendly" says some people-metre gauge.

I've listened to him many times. He won an Audie in 2021 for THE GOOD HAWK by Joseph Elliott, in the Middle Grade category. And he does a great job with Romance. ( )