Crashed Out

Kayla Barton

Feb 10, 20222 min read

Updated: Mar 18, 2022

Crashed Out

by Tessa Bailey

His inspiration. His torment. And his temptation...

Jasmine Taveras is the reason Sarge Purcell grabbed his six-string and bailed the hell out of New Jersey four years ago. She's the fuel for every song he's ever written-each one laced with bitter, hard-edged, hungry lust. Now, with his hugely successful band is on temporary hiatus, Sarge is determined to prove to Jasmine that this "kid" turned into every inch the man she's always needed...

Men are slim pickings for a single factory girl in Hook, New Jersey...until tall, broad-shouldered hotness walks-or rather storms-into Jasmine's life. Sarge's return shouldn't affect her this way. He's her best friend's much younger kid brother, and the kind of rough, gritty, sexiness Jasmine has no right to taste for herself. Even if he lets her.

But lust is a blinding, insatiable force. And when it crashes, it will take both Sarge and Jasmine down with it...

Spice Level: 4/6

Story Score: 5.5/10

Rating: 3.5/5

I love this author’s TikTok. I feel like I saw something about one of the other books in this series and I thought that I’d just start at the beginning.

This was a ‘Second Chance’ story? Maybe a ‘Best Friend’s Brother’ story. I think that’s what I finally settled on. I don’t know. It’s another one of those weird ones. Lol. Our male lead had a crush on his big sister’s best friend growing up. He goes off and makes himself a famous rockstar (using his dirty, dirty songs) and then comes back home. At first, he’s like ‘I’m going to show her’ but it quickly changes to more. It was a fairly quick read, only 202 pages, and so things move along quickly.

I’m wholly torn about this book. The female lead was…whiny? She’s too old, she didn’t make something of herself, yada yada, over and over. I’m pretty sure once everyone is over 21, age becomes irrelevant. This was different in the respect that I feel like it’s not as common for the female lead to be older. I think it’s 8 years? Anyway, she wasn’t enjoyable for a lot of it. (And who in the hell can still wear their dresses from 4 years ago?) On the other hand, I enjoyed the shit out of the male lead. Good Lord, the words coming from that man’s mouth had me blushing and I WAS HERE FOR IT. God, I love dirty talk. I will absolutely read more by this author because I want more of it in my life. Outside of bedroom games, the male lead was still enjoyable. The rockstar aspect of his life was barely paid attention to until the end, so if you’re looking for a rockstar romance, this isn’t it. But the uncle parts were cute and he was a good guy, in general.