Rock Redemption

So I read romance novels as a way to escape. They're one of my favourite “bail out” buttons when I just can't anymore with life and need something happy for my brain. But that doesn't mean that romance novels can't deal with some very tough IRL issues - and the Rock Kiss series just proves that. This particular one tackles a very tough one indeed: sexual abuse. Putting that out there right now as a kind of trigger warning because I know some people are sensitive to that sort of issue. But: if you're willing to pick this up, I can say that it's not portrayed graphically, and is handled very well (in my opinion, anyway). But also this novel (and this series as a whole, really) proves that it's possible to make a romance novel that checks all the boxes (squee-worthy, sexy, HEA), while still handling some tough IRL issues - and quite well, too.