Review | Catching London by M.V. Ellis --> 4.5 Stars
TITLE: Catching London AUTHOR: M.V. Ellis
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
RELEASE DATE: February 18th, 2018
He’s not looking to change his bad boy ways.
Arlo Jones is a badass millionaire rock star with the world at his feet. He lives the “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” lifestyle to the max, and believes in working hard and playing harder. He’s a man who always gets what he wants, especially when it comes to women. Until he meets London.
She’s a damaged dancer not looking to fall.
All London Llwellyn wants is to rebuild her life following the tragic car accident that robbed her of her fiancé, and ended her career as a professional ballet dancer. She’s working two jobs to scrape together the cash to set up her own studio, and reinvent herself as a photographer. The last thing she wants is to get involved.
Arlo promises to always be there to catch her, but can London trust him enough to let herself fall?
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⭐️ 4.5 "Arlo's Tog" Stars ⭐️
I love a good rockstar romance and Catching London is exactly that, but with a different plot than the norm. This book is more about the relationship between Arlo, the lead singer of one of the most popular band in the world, and London a photographer with big dreams, than about the rockstar lifestyle on tour.
“Loving people who are here doesn’t mean we don’t or didn’t love those who aren’t. We’re not trying to replace them of forget them, we’re just living.”
This novel was a pleasant surprise for me. I was asked to review and from the synopsis only, I was sold on this story. I loved the relationship between Arlo and London. Arlo is the ultimate bad boy and is most of the time a cocky bastard, but throughout the story he really changes and it’s due to London. She brings a tender side to him. I feel like he doesn’t know how to show the new feelings she incites in him, so he’s acting hot and cold to preserve himself from a broken heart.
From their first meeting I was laughing so much and their intense chemistry promised lots of laughs and hotness for the rest of the book. London is such a witty and sassy heroine with a sweet tendency to clumsiness. While Arlo grows a lot during this story, London is also dealing with conflicting feelings that makes her reticent to engage completely with this rockstar. She knows heartbreak and Arlo isn’t considered a safe bet for a relationship. I really enjoyed how Arlo, after a beginning where he demonstrates overconfidence, gradually shows her that her cares. He can be intense and possessive, but it comes from the heart it made him only more attractive to me.
“But apparently, that’s what love is. You wear your heart on your sleeve, make yourself vulnerable, and maybe it works out, and maybe it doesn’t, but at least you tried, right?”
M.V. Ellis did great with her debut novel. I really felt the passion of these characters and the writing of this story was beautiful. Catching London is a funny, steamy hot read you need to experience.
** ARC received in exchange for an honest review **
M.V. ELLIS
MV ELLIS knows what it’s like to fall head over heels in love with a badass musician. She moved from London to Sydney after a steamy holiday romance with a sexy bass player in sultry Brazil. Twelve years, two children and a dog later, and she’s still smitten. All this with a guy she sat next to on a bus for 36 hours! Ellis’ love of romance began when she was 11 years old, after a summer spent secretly reading her auntie’s books. She’s been a sucker for an alpha hero and strong heroine ever since. Following a career spanning advertising, marketing, and social media, she finally wrote Catching London in 2017.
