Pop Star (Famous Book 1)

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I was personally a bigger fan of Harley as I found him to be quite funny and sweet with his little quirks, but Brix was, of course, also a total sweetheart. He was just a little bit less developed as a character, which led me to feeling less connected to him. I liked both though, I just enjoyed Harley a lot more. It was probably me but I felt that the pacing was a bit off. The big, final scene with the stalker happened way too late in the story, I think about 90% in, which left the ending feeling rushed. It was also solved too easily. The question of whether anyone is listening any more doesn’t seem to trouble him unduly. When I ask what, if anything, he misses from the old days, he replies: “I miss the unbridled, bold, naked stupidity of youth’s vibrant electric hubris.”

Pop Icon Madonna started her music career as a drummer in an 80’s band called ‘The Breakfast Club’. Then when an obsessed fan took things way too far, and Harley needed a bodyguard, that's where we met Brix, the straight-laced, military guy assigned to babysit the anxious pop star. I wanted adulation and got it,” D’Arby tells me almost 35 years later, by now working under the name Sananda Maitreya, “but I had to die to survive it.” Despite everything he achieved with Band Aid and Live Aid, Bob Geldof still hankers after the musical success he had with the Boomtown Rats. Photograph: Lynn Goldsmith/Getty ImagesOn the tour’s opening night in New York, the venue was just a third full. “I thought: ‘Where’s the rest of the audience? Maybe they’re still out in the lobby?’” Pop can be short for ‘popular music’ and was first used in 1926 in reference to a piece of music having popular appeal. Since I'm not a usually a huge fan of mysteries, though, the dangerous stalker plot was less successful for me, if I'm being 100% honest; however, it was the lynchpin reason behind their meeting and spending countless days together. When a fan breaks into his home he changes his mind about needing a bodyguard and that's when Brix enters the story. The angst was kept to very manageable levels, and the flip-floppy steam was on the hotter side, but not so prevalent that I ever felt like skimming my way past the nekkid scenes.

This being a romance, of course the guys secretly had the hots for one another and, of course, eventually acted on those emotions, but neither of them expected it to turn into something more.During the same era, Kevin Rowland found himself in a comparable position. “I’d been too confident, too arrogant,” the Dexys Midnight Runners singer says. “I thought everyone would hear our new music and go: ‘Wow.’” And yet, just as Donelly would ultimately return to her old band, Merchant is also entertaining the idea of new music. “Maybe,” she says. “My daughter is off at college now, so I do have more time to myself … ” And when he shows up, he not only screams badass, he’s another B word I try to stay away from: boyfriend material. Usually I'm staying away from books with bodyguards because I know they'll innevitably add a stalker or two to the plot. This time though I couldn't say no because it was a new release by Eden Finley!