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Aster Valley #0.5
Winter Waites
Gentry Kane is a rockstar I've been half in love with my whole life. And now he's my patient.
When Winter Waites knocks on the door to the snowy cabin where his next physical therapy patient awaits him, he has no idea his dream celebrity is on the other side. Gentry Kane is everything Winter has always fantasized about. But it was only a fantasy. What happens when Winter is faced with the flesh and blood man who wants more than physical therapy? Can one night in a cozy cabin lead to more? And how will that affect Winter's growing career in the tiny, charming town of Aster Valley?
When Winter Waites knocks on the door to the snowy cabin where his next physical therapy patient awaits him, he has no idea his dream celebrity is on the other side. Gentry Kane is everything Winter has always fantasized about. But it was only a fantasy. What happens when Winter is faced with the flesh and blood man who wants more than physical therapy? Can one night in a cozy cabin lead to more? And how will that affect Winter's growing career in the tiny, charming town of Aster Valley?
91 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 26, 2021
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Lucy Lennox
94 books4,390 followersI write M/M romance with humor, heart, and heat. Check out my backlist here on GR for a selection of series and standalone or visit www.LucyLennox.com!
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December 30, 2025
Re-read 12/2025
For the most part, this story is so romantic. Totally unrealistic, but really lovely. If you ever had a crush on a rock star as a teenager and, standing in the front row at their concert, ever wondered what it would feel like if they made an eye contact with you while singing your favourite song, this is it. I enjoy it every time I re-read it.
There's a new bonus short story, but it's only available in a new hardback special edition that can be purchased only as a part of the whole series. Such a bummer.
Original review:
I'm always a bit hesitant to pick up stories about celebrities, so I'm happy to say that I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would. I didn't even care how unlikely it is that something like this would happen in real life, the author made it believable.
I really liked Gent and Winter. I loved the beginning of their story, I think it's my favourite part, as well as all the little swoony moments throughout the story. I do feel that everything happened too soon between them and the sex scenes weren't my favourite, but other than that the story was really sweet. I liked that it focuses on the two of them with not much interference from the outside.
The epilogue could have centred more around them, and less on introducing the characters in the next books.
******
Re-read 2/2021
Re-read 12/2023
For the most part, this story is so romantic. Totally unrealistic, but really lovely. If you ever had a crush on a rock star as a teenager and, standing in the front row at their concert, ever wondered what it would feel like if they made an eye contact with you while singing your favourite song, this is it. I enjoy it every time I re-read it.
There's a new bonus short story, but it's only available in a new hardback special edition that can be purchased only as a part of the whole series. Such a bummer.
Original review:
I'm always a bit hesitant to pick up stories about celebrities, so I'm happy to say that I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would. I didn't even care how unlikely it is that something like this would happen in real life, the author made it believable.
I really liked Gent and Winter. I loved the beginning of their story, I think it's my favourite part, as well as all the little swoony moments throughout the story. I do feel that everything happened too soon between them and the sex scenes weren't my favourite, but other than that the story was really sweet. I liked that it focuses on the two of them with not much interference from the outside.
The epilogue could have centred more around them, and less on introducing the characters in the next books.
******
Re-read 2/2021
Re-read 12/2023
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January 30, 2021
Winter Waites is book #0.5 in the Aster Valley series by Lucy Lennox. If swoons were a visible thing, like little hearts pouring out of the top of my head, I would be a fountain of them right now! I LOVED THIS BOOK! My little heart grew ten sizes bigger with love for Gent and Winter.
Gentry Kane is thirty four years old and is a world famous folk-pop musician. He is the lead in his band, GUS. Gentry loves his life in Los Angeles, loves his independence, and can’t imagine trying to fit a relationship into his busy life. He likes things just the way they are. But then it happens, he sees him in the crowd at a concert, his lips moving to the words of his songs. When their eyes connect, he knows that his world will never be the same.
Winter Waites lives in Aster Valley. He is an Occupational Therapist with a mountain of student debt, just trying to get by. He had saved for months for Gentry Kane’s concert. He’d loved his music from the start, his lyrics spoke to him and helped him through some difficult times. When Winter went to the door of a cabin for a home visit for therapy, he can’t believe the same man he has fantasized about for years is standing in front of him.
Gentry opens the door to his therapy appointment and can’t believe the man who has haunted his dreams and who he never thought he’d see again is standing right in front of him. He immediately knows that he’s not going to let this opportunity go. It might only be for a night, but he’s not letting this man get away.
“Our bodies were pressed so tightly together, you wouldn’t have been able to fit a slice of oxygen between them.”
The connection between these two was so strong, I felt it all the way to my toes! I loved them together so much. For such a short story, this little book packed a huge punch. They both know that they have fallen for the other, but one’s life is a simple life in Aster Valley. The other’s is a very big life in the public eye. How can they ever find a way to fit them together?
I’m simply in love with this series. So…In…Love!!! If you haven’t started it yet, grab this now and hold on to your swoons! Then, prepare for the first book, Right As Raine, which is Tiller, a pro-football player’s story, and his personal chef and also the coach’s youngest son, Mikey.
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Gentry Kane is thirty four years old and is a world famous folk-pop musician. He is the lead in his band, GUS. Gentry loves his life in Los Angeles, loves his independence, and can’t imagine trying to fit a relationship into his busy life. He likes things just the way they are. But then it happens, he sees him in the crowd at a concert, his lips moving to the words of his songs. When their eyes connect, he knows that his world will never be the same.
Winter Waites lives in Aster Valley. He is an Occupational Therapist with a mountain of student debt, just trying to get by. He had saved for months for Gentry Kane’s concert. He’d loved his music from the start, his lyrics spoke to him and helped him through some difficult times. When Winter went to the door of a cabin for a home visit for therapy, he can’t believe the same man he has fantasized about for years is standing in front of him.
Gentry opens the door to his therapy appointment and can’t believe the man who has haunted his dreams and who he never thought he’d see again is standing right in front of him. He immediately knows that he’s not going to let this opportunity go. It might only be for a night, but he’s not letting this man get away.
“Our bodies were pressed so tightly together, you wouldn’t have been able to fit a slice of oxygen between them.”
The connection between these two was so strong, I felt it all the way to my toes! I loved them together so much. For such a short story, this little book packed a huge punch. They both know that they have fallen for the other, but one’s life is a simple life in Aster Valley. The other’s is a very big life in the public eye. How can they ever find a way to fit them together?
I’m simply in love with this series. So…In…Love!!! If you haven’t started it yet, grab this now and hold on to your swoons! Then, prepare for the first book, Right As Raine, which is Tiller, a pro-football player’s story, and his personal chef and also the coach’s youngest son, Mikey.
For more about this book and so many others, come and visit me at Carol's Crazy Bookish World.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Carol...
January 6, 2021
I know this sounds super nerdy, but I wanted to know more about how Winter helped Gentry (is it just me or is this one of the worst names on the planet?) with the pulled tendon in his hand. They had like one therapy session, and the injury was never mentioned again.
Surely, Gentry wasn't cured by Magic Dick alone? If so, I need me some of that magic. Pretty please with a cherry and everything.
Winter Waites is the ultimate fantasy story of crushing on a rock star and, after a decade of devotion, having that rock star love you back (and OMG pay off all your student loans!). FOR REAL.
Gent, the rock/pop star, makes eye contact with Winter, an occupational therapist, at a concert and can't stop staring. When Winter leaves abruptly, Gent interrupts the concert and frantically searches for the mysterious stranger.
Um, yes, that happens. Also, Gent punches a wall later, thus the pulled tendon.
This novella is far-fetched in terms of the insta love. Of course it is. But it's also ever so sexy and so, so, SO swoony. It's basically a fairy tale.
Oh, and it's also a prequel to a new Lucy Lennox series set in Colorado, which, hell yeah, color me excited. However, I wish the epilogue hadn't been all about frantically introducing a whole bunch of future MCs. That's a bit cheap. *shrugs* I'll take it tho.
Surely, Gentry wasn't cured by Magic Dick alone? If so, I need me some of that magic. Pretty please with a cherry and everything.
Winter Waites is the ultimate fantasy story of crushing on a rock star and, after a decade of devotion, having that rock star love you back (and OMG pay off all your student loans!). FOR REAL.
Gent, the rock/pop star, makes eye contact with Winter, an occupational therapist, at a concert and can't stop staring. When Winter leaves abruptly, Gent interrupts the concert and frantically searches for the mysterious stranger.
Um, yes, that happens. Also, Gent punches a wall later, thus the pulled tendon.
This novella is far-fetched in terms of the insta love. Of course it is. But it's also ever so sexy and so, so, SO swoony. It's basically a fairy tale.
Oh, and it's also a prequel to a new Lucy Lennox series set in Colorado, which, hell yeah, color me excited. However, I wish the epilogue hadn't been all about frantically introducing a whole bunch of future MCs. That's a bit cheap. *shrugs* I'll take it tho.
January 7, 2021
4 Stars
A literal dream scenario come true, Lucy Lennox’s latest series opens with one helluva tasty novella, which confirms in my mind once and for all that having your favourite celebrity crush fall madly-in-love with you is in fact the greatest thing that could possibly happen in life!
Winter Waites is a health care professional, frantically working his ass off to make ends meet, while paying off a mountain of college debts and trying his hardest to make sure his younger sister wants for nothing. His latest boyfriend is a cheating scumbag and his cat is probably his closest friend, ever since he moved to the small-town of Aster Valley, Colorado, but the man has hopes and aspirations, which heavily include falling in love with the man of his dreams and living happily ever after.
When Winter treats himself to a ticket to see his all-time favourite band play in a nearby city, the last thing he expects is to make an intense emotional connection, across the pulsing crowd, with the lead singer and his long-time celebrity crush, Gentry Kane. But that’s exactly what happens.
Gent initially thinks he’s lost his beautiful bearded dream-man from the crowd of his last concert of the year, leading to a wall-punch of frustration that injures his hand. But fate intervenes when Gent heads to a secluded cabin in nearby Aster Valley for some solo R&R, before the next leg of his tour kicks off, and it’s there, after requesting some medical help from the nearby hospital, that Winter serendipitously shows up at his door and changes his life forever.
This story was romantic as all get-out and was steaming hot to boot. The initial scenes were spellbinding, with Gentry and Winter locking eyes across the concert crowd, as Gent poured his heart and soul into his songs aimed directly at Winter, and Winter alone. It was opening scene perfection, in my opinion, and it set such a wonderful and tangible vibe for the whole story that I couldn’t help but devour it all in one sitting.
Of course, the whole scenario of meeting and falling hopelessly in love with your rock star crush is (mostly) far removed from reality, but I bought in to Gent and Winter’s soul-deep insta-love immediately and I had no problems losing myself in their romantic story, for what little time I got to spend with them on page.
This was a big win for me, and more exciting is the fact that it serves as a prologue to Lennox’s next M/M series, all set in the wonderfully scenic and endearing town of Aster Valley (with Right as Raine: An Aster Valley Novel up next). I honestly cannot wait to read more, if this delicious novella is anything to go by!
A literal dream scenario come true, Lucy Lennox’s latest series opens with one helluva tasty novella, which confirms in my mind once and for all that having your favourite celebrity crush fall madly-in-love with you is in fact the greatest thing that could possibly happen in life!
Winter Waites is a health care professional, frantically working his ass off to make ends meet, while paying off a mountain of college debts and trying his hardest to make sure his younger sister wants for nothing. His latest boyfriend is a cheating scumbag and his cat is probably his closest friend, ever since he moved to the small-town of Aster Valley, Colorado, but the man has hopes and aspirations, which heavily include falling in love with the man of his dreams and living happily ever after.
When Winter treats himself to a ticket to see his all-time favourite band play in a nearby city, the last thing he expects is to make an intense emotional connection, across the pulsing crowd, with the lead singer and his long-time celebrity crush, Gentry Kane. But that’s exactly what happens.
Gent initially thinks he’s lost his beautiful bearded dream-man from the crowd of his last concert of the year, leading to a wall-punch of frustration that injures his hand. But fate intervenes when Gent heads to a secluded cabin in nearby Aster Valley for some solo R&R, before the next leg of his tour kicks off, and it’s there, after requesting some medical help from the nearby hospital, that Winter serendipitously shows up at his door and changes his life forever.
This story was romantic as all get-out and was steaming hot to boot. The initial scenes were spellbinding, with Gentry and Winter locking eyes across the concert crowd, as Gent poured his heart and soul into his songs aimed directly at Winter, and Winter alone. It was opening scene perfection, in my opinion, and it set such a wonderful and tangible vibe for the whole story that I couldn’t help but devour it all in one sitting.
Of course, the whole scenario of meeting and falling hopelessly in love with your rock star crush is (mostly) far removed from reality, but I bought in to Gent and Winter’s soul-deep insta-love immediately and I had no problems losing myself in their romantic story, for what little time I got to spend with them on page.
This was a big win for me, and more exciting is the fact that it serves as a prologue to Lennox’s next M/M series, all set in the wonderfully scenic and endearing town of Aster Valley (with Right as Raine: An Aster Valley Novel up next). I honestly cannot wait to read more, if this delicious novella is anything to go by!
January 19, 2021
I don't even know...The writing was good, the characters' reactions were a big WTF after another. Don't mind me. I'm the party pooper today.
February 9, 2021
Now this was nice!
Most of the time Lucy Lennox and I don't mesh, but I really liked this. I even want to try out the rest of the series when it comes out.
Lots of people have crushes on famous people. And wouldn't it be amazing if that gorgeous singer noticed you too? And that's what happens to Winter. Gentry Kane is singing his heart out on stage when he spots a man in the audience. A man he can't seem to stop thinking about.
When that man unexpectly turns out to be his physical therapist, Gent knows he got a second chance. He was sure he lost the chance to meet the pretty man when he lost him at the concert. But now he's at Gent's remote cabin, and Gentry doesn't want to let him go this time...
Boy, this was cute! I really liked these guys and I was glad the romance felt effortless. No angst to be found in this. Just how I like it.
Most of the time Lucy Lennox and I don't mesh, but I really liked this. I even want to try out the rest of the series when it comes out.
Lots of people have crushes on famous people. And wouldn't it be amazing if that gorgeous singer noticed you too? And that's what happens to Winter. Gentry Kane is singing his heart out on stage when he spots a man in the audience. A man he can't seem to stop thinking about.
When that man unexpectly turns out to be his physical therapist, Gent knows he got a second chance. He was sure he lost the chance to meet the pretty man when he lost him at the concert. But now he's at Gent's remote cabin, and Gentry doesn't want to let him go this time...
Boy, this was cute! I really liked these guys and I was glad the romance felt effortless. No angst to be found in this. Just how I like it.
January 14, 2021
Well, that was just fabulous.
I'm not always one for the rock star/nobody trope as they often feel unbalanced but in Winter, Lucy creates a character who I could easily see folk pop star Gent falling for.
I mean, how often as a teenager did I dream of locking eyes with The Damned's Dave Vanian and being swept away into a happy ever after?
Okay, I'll give you a clue, it was a toss up between him and a fair few Rugby League players (and one England RU fly-half) but you get what I'm saying right 😉
I really liked how Gent was full on bowled over by Cupid's arrow (to the heart, not the knee) and that his instant physical reaction became a desire to get to know Winter more and, hopefully, get to keep him.
The relationship felt believable, the heat of the chemistry causing them to burn up the sheets, but also in the caring way they thought of little - and not so little - ways to make the other's life easier.
It's a cracking introduction to the new series set in Aster Valley, and I'm really hoping we're going to get Gent's uncle Doran's story too.
I'm very much looking forward to the series opener which is a sports romance with a hint of forbidden love starring an NFL star and his coach's son.
I'm not always one for the rock star/nobody trope as they often feel unbalanced but in Winter, Lucy creates a character who I could easily see folk pop star Gent falling for.
I mean, how often as a teenager did I dream of locking eyes with The Damned's Dave Vanian and being swept away into a happy ever after?
Okay, I'll give you a clue, it was a toss up between him and a fair few Rugby League players (and one England RU fly-half) but you get what I'm saying right 😉
I really liked how Gent was full on bowled over by Cupid's arrow (to the heart, not the knee) and that his instant physical reaction became a desire to get to know Winter more and, hopefully, get to keep him.
The relationship felt believable, the heat of the chemistry causing them to burn up the sheets, but also in the caring way they thought of little - and not so little - ways to make the other's life easier.
It's a cracking introduction to the new series set in Aster Valley, and I'm really hoping we're going to get Gent's uncle Doran's story too.
I'm very much looking forward to the series opener which is a sports romance with a hint of forbidden love starring an NFL star and his coach's son.
January 11, 2021
This was a great starting off point for Lennox's new series. These two were sweet and adorable together and had great chemistry.
Pure fantasy, because there is no known instance of a fan actually getting to be with the famous person they're a fan of in real life, but in stories hell yeah! Gimme!
And Winter is a big fan of Gentry's (although of course, not a crazed fan, just a normal fan). At a concert in Denver, Winter and Genrty lock eyes while Gent's on stage performing and an instant connection is formed, but when something makes Winter leave the concert early, Gentry actually goes off stage to try to find him, to no avail.
But luckily - because this is, of course, fiction :P - when Gentry hurts his hand when he drunkenly punched a wall (over not finding Winter and losing hope of ever actually seeing him again), he needs a hand specialist to come and help him heal his hand properly.
And that hand specialist is, you guessed it, Winter. And in the privacy of Gentry's cabin, they get to know each other on a real, human level - not just a fan and rockstar level - and both come to love the person they really are.
Winter was sweet and adorable and Gent's love for Winter was wonderful.
I enjoyed this a lot, and seeing them get their happy ending was the icing on the cake.
And if we all just ignore how almost impossible it is for a fan and the person they're a fan of to fall for each other, and just enjoy this for the escapist fantasy that it is, then it was a perfect novella, and I can't wait for the first installment in this new series!
Pure fantasy, because there is no known instance of a fan actually getting to be with the famous person they're a fan of in real life, but in stories hell yeah! Gimme!
And Winter is a big fan of Gentry's (although of course, not a crazed fan, just a normal fan). At a concert in Denver, Winter and Genrty lock eyes while Gent's on stage performing and an instant connection is formed, but when something makes Winter leave the concert early, Gentry actually goes off stage to try to find him, to no avail.
But luckily - because this is, of course, fiction :P - when Gentry hurts his hand when he drunkenly punched a wall (over not finding Winter and losing hope of ever actually seeing him again), he needs a hand specialist to come and help him heal his hand properly.
And that hand specialist is, you guessed it, Winter. And in the privacy of Gentry's cabin, they get to know each other on a real, human level - not just a fan and rockstar level - and both come to love the person they really are.
Winter was sweet and adorable and Gent's love for Winter was wonderful.
I enjoyed this a lot, and seeing them get their happy ending was the icing on the cake.
And if we all just ignore how almost impossible it is for a fan and the person they're a fan of to fall for each other, and just enjoy this for the escapist fantasy that it is, then it was a perfect novella, and I can't wait for the first installment in this new series!
June 10, 2021
I love Lucy Lennox stories ! Aster Valley, Colorado.
A mesmerizing fan - an intense song about loving a man - a need sprung up in each man's soul - a longing out of reach.
Gentry/Gent, 34, a professional musician
of ten years with his band, GUS. He's dark haired, blue-eyed sexy artist, who rented a cabin hideaway in Aster Valley. It is for relaxing and writing new songs, but since he smashed his hand into a wall, it's for therapy, too.
A knock-knock on the cabin door brings him eye-to-eye with the gorgeous man who he sang to at the concert.
A dirty blonde haired, strawberry blonde bearded hunky man, Winter Waites, 30ish, will be his hand therapist.
Winter is professional, but they do talk and recognize each other. The spark is there. They ask questions and still want more time together. The conversations are deep and funny, witty and truthful. Gent asks Winter to stay.
Their sexy times are super hot and sweet, wild and cuddly.
Winter is a wonderful man, taking care of other, and his sister in college. Gent is a kind-hearted soul.
Gent and Winter want to keep in touch when Gent goes on tour, and so they Skype, face time and talk, along with phone sex, of course.
Soon their relationship is a deeper passion, and Gent gives Winter a few big giftings. Is he for real?
I like the characters so much, each one having a super personality and together they are dynamite.
A terrific, almost fairy tale, feel that will make you smile.
Lots of fun.
ENJOY !
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A mesmerizing fan - an intense song about loving a man - a need sprung up in each man's soul - a longing out of reach.
Gentry/Gent, 34, a professional musician
of ten years with his band, GUS. He's dark haired, blue-eyed sexy artist, who rented a cabin hideaway in Aster Valley. It is for relaxing and writing new songs, but since he smashed his hand into a wall, it's for therapy, too.
A knock-knock on the cabin door brings him eye-to-eye with the gorgeous man who he sang to at the concert.
A dirty blonde haired, strawberry blonde bearded hunky man, Winter Waites, 30ish, will be his hand therapist.
Winter is professional, but they do talk and recognize each other. The spark is there. They ask questions and still want more time together. The conversations are deep and funny, witty and truthful. Gent asks Winter to stay.
Their sexy times are super hot and sweet, wild and cuddly.
Winter is a wonderful man, taking care of other, and his sister in college. Gent is a kind-hearted soul.
Gent and Winter want to keep in touch when Gent goes on tour, and so they Skype, face time and talk, along with phone sex, of course.
Soon their relationship is a deeper passion, and Gent gives Winter a few big giftings. Is he for real?
I like the characters so much, each one having a super personality and together they are dynamite.
A terrific, almost fairy tale, feel that will make you smile.
Lots of fun.
ENJOY !
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May 11, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
🌶️🌶️🌶️
🎧🎧🎧
I love stories like this, it reminds me of fated mates a bit. Plus there’s a cat, always love the addition of a cat. Because there’s nothing sexier than men who love cats.
Anywho… Gentry is a rockstar so he can basically have anyone he wants. And when he sees this cutie in the audience he sings all the songs to him. He’s decided he’ll find him after the show but then the guy ups and leaves before the show ends.
Gentry stops in the middle of the show to go find him but by the time he gets outside he’s gone. Frustrated Gentry punches a brick wall.
After the fact, he goes to visit a physical therapist and wouldn’t you know who that is? Of course the little cutie in the audience.
Winter has never had an easy life, he’s not only struggled but shitty guys have come and gone. So Gentry is literally his prince in shining armor. But he wants to prove this relationship they have blooming isn’t because Gentry is a famous rockstar so he carries his own weight.
This was so stinking cute, the perfect gay fairy tale!
🌶️🌶️🌶️
🎧🎧🎧
I love stories like this, it reminds me of fated mates a bit. Plus there’s a cat, always love the addition of a cat. Because there’s nothing sexier than men who love cats.
Anywho… Gentry is a rockstar so he can basically have anyone he wants. And when he sees this cutie in the audience he sings all the songs to him. He’s decided he’ll find him after the show but then the guy ups and leaves before the show ends.
Gentry stops in the middle of the show to go find him but by the time he gets outside he’s gone. Frustrated Gentry punches a brick wall.
After the fact, he goes to visit a physical therapist and wouldn’t you know who that is? Of course the little cutie in the audience.
Winter has never had an easy life, he’s not only struggled but shitty guys have come and gone. So Gentry is literally his prince in shining armor. But he wants to prove this relationship they have blooming isn’t because Gentry is a famous rockstar so he carries his own weight.
This was so stinking cute, the perfect gay fairy tale!
January 2, 2021
This is the daydream/fantasy we've all had of meeting our rock crush and them actually falling in love with us. It was cute.
January 30, 2021
*sigh*
This was...dreamy.
I know it was lofty at best but I don't care.
I liked it. I liked them. Very much.
AND...although it's clearly a setup for the next (first) book I AM SO THERE!
Bring it!
*4 gimmie-gimmie-more stars*
This was...dreamy.
I know it was lofty at best but I don't care.
I liked it. I liked them. Very much.
AND...although it's clearly a setup for the next (first) book I AM SO THERE!
Bring it!
*4 gimmie-gimmie-more stars*
January 4, 2022
This was too short to build any real emotion but I really liked it for what it was.
January 22, 2021
I don't remember reading a book from Lucy and liking it much, this wasn't an exception.
I dunno, it was so insta my eye roll game got some exercise and I'm sorry, but if you are in a concert is imposible for the people in the stage to look at the crowd very well, the lights don't allow it. So to me it wasn't believable. Also, he had an injury and had sex like nothing was hurting, said injury was in his hand and he's a singer/songwriter, he needs the hand but nope, everything I've achieved in my life don't matter because of a dick, of course nothing happens to the hand because this is so not real that I can't even! So no sir, thank you.
It was short and an introduction to a new series, but I'll have to see some reviews to decide if I continue with it. 🤓❤
I dunno, it was so insta my eye roll game got some exercise and I'm sorry, but if you are in a concert is imposible for the people in the stage to look at the crowd very well, the lights don't allow it. So to me it wasn't believable. Also, he had an injury and had sex like nothing was hurting, said injury was in his hand and he's a singer/songwriter, he needs the hand but nope, everything I've achieved in my life don't matter because of a dick, of course nothing happens to the hand because this is so not real that I can't even! So no sir, thank you.
It was short and an introduction to a new series, but I'll have to see some reviews to decide if I continue with it. 🤓❤
January 6, 2022
Really nice start to this new series.
January 28, 2021
I just adored Gentry and Winter! Sweet, romantic and hot. It's probably everyone's rock star crush fantasy come to life. I would have happily read a full-length novel about these two. I'm looking forward to the first full-length book in the series Right as Raine and hopefully a little more time with these Gent and Winter.
January 9, 2021
I don’t know if this just caught me at the right moment, but I adored this so much. I needed this today.
January 6, 2021
Okay, so I was dreaming of having a life like Winter after he met Gent. Seriously.
My childhood dream was to be Cinderella LOL.
I had no idea about all the cinder thing, all I knew was, she lived happily ever after with a Prince.
That's why I love reading fairy tales, even until I'm almost a grandma.
My love of reading triggered by this kind of story.
So back to Gent (I hate the name, sory Luc) and Winter.
Winter Waites was an adorable cinderfella story, with a hot rock star and a nurse who were finally found each other again after 'concert interuptus' the other night.
And falling in love instantly.
My kind of story (I can't stop smiling writing this review).
Sweet and enjoyable, with very generous rock star. I want mine! :))
Guys, it's Lucy Lennox, read this book!
January 25, 2021
I am not the first one to say this and I probably won’t be the last but man, is that not everyone’s dream come true at some point? I mean, to this day I swear to GOD that Sebastian Bach looked at me, waved to me and winked at me from the door of his tour bus (yes I was out stalking his tour bus after the show!). ME. I know it. So yeah, to think that your superstar crush sees you in a crowd of people and this is the result? Dreamy. Cool start to a new series I’m looking forward to.
Thank you to all the authors who participated in this Winter Wonderland event and contributed a free read. It was truly the best way to start 2021.
Thank you to all the authors who participated in this Winter Wonderland event and contributed a free read. It was truly the best way to start 2021.
June 25, 2021
Wow, Lucy has another new series coming out. And, if this is anything to go by, she once again has a winner.
February 9, 2021
Fast & Fun
Super fast, love at first sight (kinda), no angst.
Rich music star & struggling physical therapist.
The intro to Lennox’s new Aster Valley series. I read this after the first book—I think I liked these guys better in that book than in their own story.
My rec? Not a must read, but pleasant enough.
Super fast, love at first sight (kinda), no angst.
Rich music star & struggling physical therapist.
The intro to Lennox’s new Aster Valley series. I read this after the first book—I think I liked these guys better in that book than in their own story.
My rec? Not a must read, but pleasant enough.
March 29, 2023
I can't remember when was the last time I cried tears of joy while reading a book, much less a short novel.
It's so short, but yet so, so sweet and heartfelt, so I'm giving it 5⭐ because it made my day and I'm hoping the rest of the books in the series keep the momentum going.
This charming little story is about Winter, a man who's working as an Occupational Therapist in a hospital in a small town of Aster Valley. He's living in a trailer and he's attending a concert of his beloved group GUS, who's been a steady presence in his life since his early college years. The lead singer, Gent, is Winter's total celebrity crush and when fate intervenes, these two start working together and eventually seeing each other romantically .
Because Gent is a musician who's on the road a lot, they get some time apart, but just enough for their wants and desires for a future together to become very clear .
The love story was in fact really not insta-love-like, it was convincing, deep and very emotional . I could absolutely feel the meaningfulness of their connection and I liked them both very much.
Despite this being an impossible situation for both, they find a way and stay together. I loved many things about Winter and Gent, mostly how much they were missing each other, always talking, keeping in touch when Gent was on tour and I absolutely loved the fact that Gent took Winter's surname when they got married.
A happy, feelgood story and a wonderful beginning to the series.
May 31, 2022
3 stars
Short, sweet and to the point.
Short, sweet and to the point.
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January 28, 2021****narration review only****
Uggg I remember now why I’m not exactly a fan of this particular narrator. EVERYTHING has to be so dramatic. I don’t mind when it’s one of the MC speaking (it’s warranted then), but just describing something inconsequential doesn’t require the overly dramatic sportscaster or 1950s radio announcer voice. To me, it’s like nails on a chalkboard.
Sorry. He’s much loved by most MM audiobook lovers, so take anything I say with a grain of salt.
Uggg I remember now why I’m not exactly a fan of this particular narrator. EVERYTHING has to be so dramatic. I don’t mind when it’s one of the MC speaking (it’s warranted then), but just describing something inconsequential doesn’t require the overly dramatic sportscaster or 1950s radio announcer voice. To me, it’s like nails on a chalkboard.
Sorry. He’s much loved by most MM audiobook lovers, so take anything I say with a grain of salt.
July 20, 2021
Super short and sweet!!
January 15, 2021
Voilà une courte nouvelle sur une célébrité et d'un fan... Point de départ d'une future série de Lucy Lennox, je m'étais dit que ça valait le coup de tenter cette nouvelle pour voir.
Je ne vais y aller par quatre chemins, je n'ai pas adhéré à cette romance. Déjà pour commencer, la star qui va à la rencontre d'une groupie et qui lui dit clairement : tu es beau, je veux te baiser... Euh nooon...
Alors, j'ai lu jusqu'au bout hein. Ok, c'est de l'insta love, là on est dans du costaud, donc ouais non sans parler du manque de romantisme, pour moi ça ne l'a pas fait ! Après, vu le nombre d'avis positif, je pense que ça doit venir de moi et de mon état de fatigue, peut-être... ou pas ^^
Voili voilou ^^
Je ne vais y aller par quatre chemins, je n'ai pas adhéré à cette romance. Déjà pour commencer, la star qui va à la rencontre d'une groupie et qui lui dit clairement : tu es beau, je veux te baiser... Euh nooon...
Alors, j'ai lu jusqu'au bout hein. Ok, c'est de l'insta love, là on est dans du costaud, donc ouais non sans parler du manque de romantisme, pour moi ça ne l'a pas fait ! Après, vu le nombre d'avis positif, je pense que ça doit venir de moi et de mon état de fatigue, peut-être... ou pas ^^
Voili voilou ^^
October 5, 2022
4.5 Stars
It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to a new series than Winter Waites, Lucy Lennox’s intro to her ‘Aster Valley’ series.
Occupational therapist Winter Waites and rock star Gentry (Gent) Kane are from completely different worlds, but they’re clearly meant for each other. Their love story is both sweet and sexy.
Lennox has filled her short story with wonderful secondary characters and it’s made ‘Aster Valley’ a series I look forward to reading over the winter months ahead.
It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to a new series than Winter Waites, Lucy Lennox’s intro to her ‘Aster Valley’ series.
Occupational therapist Winter Waites and rock star Gentry (Gent) Kane are from completely different worlds, but they’re clearly meant for each other. Their love story is both sweet and sexy.
Lennox has filled her short story with wonderful secondary characters and it’s made ‘Aster Valley’ a series I look forward to reading over the winter months ahead.
July 21, 2021
Rounding up to four stars.
Devoured this in one evening and had such fun with this fluffy, quite sweet short. Kinda wish I read this before the first novel in the series, Right as Raine. But reading this short story has made me intrigued to return to this series. The upcoming title, Thick as Thieves, intrigues me hugely so might go for that...
In this prequel novella, lead singer of popular band, GUS, Gentry Kane is on stage, singing when he spots a man in the audience. A man Gentry has an immediate reaction to and can't seem to stop thinking about, so when the man vanishes, Gentry gets drunk over missing his chance with mystery man and does something stupid: he punches a wall, causing damage to his hand. While he's on winter break in a snowy cabin in the middle of nowhere (Yes, Aster Valley), Gentry has to have an Occupational Therapist come round and give physical therapy to his hand. And Gentry is in for a shock when he opens the door for his first session and it's the guy from the contest, Winter Waites...
There are some things where you have to suspend your belief (oh yeah, there was one or two moments I rolled my eyes so hard), but because the story is quite sugary, you just go with it. It was angst free, candy floss kinda read and perfect for the mood I was in.
Devoured this in one evening and had such fun with this fluffy, quite sweet short. Kinda wish I read this before the first novel in the series, Right as Raine. But reading this short story has made me intrigued to return to this series. The upcoming title, Thick as Thieves, intrigues me hugely so might go for that...
In this prequel novella, lead singer of popular band, GUS, Gentry Kane is on stage, singing when he spots a man in the audience. A man Gentry has an immediate reaction to and can't seem to stop thinking about, so when the man vanishes, Gentry gets drunk over missing his chance with mystery man and does something stupid: he punches a wall, causing damage to his hand. While he's on winter break in a snowy cabin in the middle of nowhere (Yes, Aster Valley), Gentry has to have an Occupational Therapist come round and give physical therapy to his hand. And Gentry is in for a shock when he opens the door for his first session and it's the guy from the contest, Winter Waites...
There are some things where you have to suspend your belief (oh yeah, there was one or two moments I rolled my eyes so hard), but because the story is quite sugary, you just go with it. It was angst free, candy floss kinda read and perfect for the mood I was in.
February 18, 2021
Cute absolutely angst free book about a Rockstar finding love in a small town.
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