Full Tilt by Emma Scott

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Title: Full Tilt
Author: Emma Scott
Series: Full Tilt #1
Published by: Tantor Audio
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Nelson Hobbs, Caitlin Kelly
Length: 10 hours and 55 minutes
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Source: Audible Escape Package
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Audiobook Challenge
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My rating:

Blurb:

"I would love you forever, if I only had the chance..."

Kacey Dawson has always lived life on the edge--impulsively, sometimes recklessly. And now, as lead guitarist for a hot up-and-coming band, she is poised at the brink of fame and fortune. But she is torn between wanting to be a serious musician, and the demons that lure her down the glittering, but alcohol-soaked path of rock stardom. A wrecked concert in Las Vegas threatens to ruin her career entirely. She wakes up with the hangover from hell and no memory of the night before, or how she ended up on her limo driver’s couch...

Jonah Fletcher is running out of time. He knows his situation is hopeless, and he's vowed to make the most of the handful of months he has left to him. His plans include seeing the opening of his glass installation at a prestigious art gallery…they do not include falling in love with a wild, tempestuous rock musician who wound up passed out on his couch.

Jonah sees that Kacey is on a path to self-destruction. He lets her crash with him for a few days to dry out and get her head on straight. But neither of them expected the deep connection they felt, or how that connection could grow so fast from friendship into something more. Something deep and pure and life-changing…something as fragile as glass, that they both know will shatter in the end no matter how hard they try to hold on to it.

Full Tilt is a story about what it means to love with your whole heart, to sacrifice, to experience terrible grief and soaring joy. To live life with all its beauty, and all its pain, and in the end to be able to smile through tears and know you wouldn’t have changed a thing.

***FIRST BOOK IN A TWO PART DUET*** All In (Full Tilt #2) forthcoming...

My Review:

4.5 stars — Who wrote thoughts of this book down a long time ago, then forgot about it, so isn’t going to both cleaning it all up and making it pretty and you just get what you get?  This girl!

Definitely emotional, but not as angsty as I was expecting.  Just a lot of heart wrenching.

Jonah was almost too good to be true…but luckily he had his dumbass moments too to prove he was human.  I loved how sweet he was, how thoughtful, how just *good*.

Kacey was more than I was expecting too.  I had anticipated that this book would be about addiction, but it really wasn’t.  It was about her finding out what was good for her, and what wasn’t.  And not being afraid to grab what you want.

Loved both narrators.  Both did a great job with all the emotions and made me feel so much and made me bawl.  Really added by listening.  Their voices weren’t always consistent or unique for secondary characters, and sometimes it was hard to suss out dialogue from thoughts in head, but I think that’s just generally a challenge for narrators.  Loved their voices for the other.

Lots of fun moments and sexy moments.

Was distracted reading it, and wary of the ending, so it took forever to finish it because I never wanted to pick it back up.

Loved the secondary cast.  I could totally see where things were going sometimes though and wasn’t always happy that I saw that coming…made it a bit harder to invest in Kacey and Jonah.  I still did, but…it was odd.  Loved Oscar and Dina and Tonya — all great friends.  Parents were intriguing.

Loved all the glass blowing stuff, that was super cool.

I know someday I will read book 2, but I was definitely not emotionally ready for that when I finished this a year and a half ago.  Maybe soon.