Strike Up the Band

This book is soft and sweet and quiet - all shocking considering it's a book about a music band, which actually works for me really well as I'm not a fan of the high octane lives that most celebrities are depicted as having. So, I actually grabbed this book because it was showing up on asexual book lists and because it has a ‘heat rating of zero.' (I'm not even getting into how sick I am of the level of sex in LGBT+ romances.)

So, yes, we have an ace character that only discovers the term for it during this book. His love interest is bisexual. Both these things make me very happy. The relationship that blooms makes me very happy. They talk about their relationship before taking the next stages, they are friends before they are anything else. Even when their relationship grows...it's almost like they go right to ‘together for years' because of how comfortable they are with each other. It's lovely and angst free.

What isn't good, is that there's an outing. The bi guy has told the girl in the band that he's bi. His mother outs him to the world as gay. In his ‘defense' the girl then outs him to the band/crew as being bi. ... This is not cool. His mother is terrible, we all agree, but the girl that outed him should never have because it wasn't her place to do so, no matter her reasons. She was never called on it and it was never even mentioned that what she did was wrong.

Other than that? The book was awesome. Thankfully enough, the guys were lovely and mature and angst-free and talked like mature adults, because if they had been as unaware of their actions as this girl...I'd be writing a very different review.