Red Dust Runaway

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Pub Date Jun 25 2017 | Archive Date Jun 07 2017

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One jaded rock star. One sheltered classical musician. One hell of a red dust road trip...Sheltered, coddled, gifted, Iris longs for something more than practice and performing. She wants to rebel, break the rules, have a hot affair, fall in love – to really live before happily committing to her classical music bubble. But her strict parents and her stricter schedule keep her confined to her gilded cage, even as she yearns desperately to be free.Super star, successful, and sick of all of it, Kit just wants to stop. Stop the touring and the recording and the media and the bickering with his band mates. After two years on the road, he's coming apart at the seams. He has to slow down, calm down, clear his head – to really think before recommitting to his rock star lifestyle. But his manager and the tour schedule keep him locked to his super star lifestyle, even as he rages against the confinement.A chance encounter in a car park leads to a snap decision and an enormous risk: suddenly Kit and Iris are on an extraordinary road trip together across Australia, making their own choices, breaking all the rules. But reality is chasing them more quickly than they can know, and soon Kit and Iris will have to decide whether they are just running away – or running away together.

One jaded rock star. One sheltered classical musician. One hell of a red dust road trip...Sheltered, coddled, gifted, Iris longs for something more than practice and performing. She wants to rebel...


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I have read the other books in the series and have enjoyed all of them. This was a sweet story and I loved that two superficially different people found out how alike they were when they spent time in their roadtrip bubble. Wanted to grab Kit and shake him by the shoulders for not feeding up to who he was until it was too late. I also loved the way they came back together at the band's final concert melding both their worlds.

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I really enjoyed reading this romance novel. I found that it is full of twists and turns that add to the suspense of will they or wont they. A really great read for any romance novel lovers

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Red Dust Runway, Eva Scott

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre:  Romance, 

I wasn't sure about this, I do love rock star romance but this is kind of a side issue rock-star theme. It was a great read though, a real escape. 

I loved Iris and Kit.
I so felt for her, a father that's very domineering pushing his ambitions for her, rather than seeing what she wants. That happens. We say "she's 20, why not stand up to him?" but after her mum died she came to live with him age 8 and he's been directing her life ever since. Very single minded in his ambitions for her.
She's always gone along with it, well at 8 you don't challenge parents, and as she got older its just become her accepted norm doing what he says, wearing what he says, eating what he says, practicing her violin for six hours or more each day....then a chance conversation with her next door neighbour leads her to thinking "what if" and seizing the chance for an adventure with her Nan's help. She sounds a great lady, I'd love to be her! 

Then there's Kit, discovered at a young age by The Major, and moulded into an award winning star. Its all he's known since his early teens and the last two years have been none stop touring.
Both he and the band are fractured, sniping and bitching at each other, shattered by the constant stress of performing and publicity. Its pressure all day every day, and he feels sick of it. Music was his love, his dream and its in danger of becoming his gravestone.

He knows something has to give, he's in pain every day, popping painkillers just to get through, drinking too much, he feels ill, can't sleep, can't relax. He feels headed for a breakdown and the Major isn't listening.
He tells himself he's leaving the band after their last concert in a few weeks, but he's a two week break til the next one, and though The Major has filled each day with interviews and promotional stuff he just can't hack it. Then he sees Iris and persuades her to let him go along with her. 

Its a fabulous journey, where they get to know each other slowly, meet some great people, have a real adventure and fall in love.
One big barrier though. It seems everyone in the world knows who Kit is...except Iris. He loves being seen for himself, a real person and not the image he has to project, and then as they're together longer the chance to tell her the truth slips away til it all comes crashing down.
Can he get her to trust him again?   
Stars: five,a great read, a real piece of escapism in every sense of the word and a perfect HEA. 

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