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Lick It Up by Gillian Archer Series: Long Licks Rock Stars #1
on April 16, 2026
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I left for my “honeymoon” solo but came home married to a rock star. Oh boy.
My entire world collapses a week before my wedding.
My ex is not the man I thought he was, and I have the shiner to prove it.
Heartbroken, I board my honeymoon flight alone and spend my days sitting on the beach, wondering how I never saw it coming.
Enter Mal.
I’m not sure how I didn’t recognize the biggest guitar player in the world.
I just know I feel safe in his arms, and he’s as different from my ex as can be—gentle, giving, spontaneous…
Planning to marry someone I thought I knew didn’t work, so why not marry a stranger?
But when his world gets rocked in the worst possible way, and he goes back on the promises he made to me on that beach, I have to choose between stability and the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me…for all the right reasons.Lick It Up kicks off the Long Licks series. Grab this angsty, elopement with a rock star, age gap, spicy romance about two people finding themselves and love despite tragedy coming at them from every direction.
I loved them … but … Okay, this book started out exciting with two characters that grabbed my attention quickly and had me all in for whatever trouble they were going to get into together. Yes, it was fast, it was unrealistic, it was exaggerated … but I loved them … until tragedy struck in his life back home and the ball was totally dropped on the plot after that. Instead of explaining what was going on in his head, he basically closed the door on what had been developing between them and left her to flounder out in left field for the majority of the rest of the book. There’s a couple decade age gap here and it’s a stereotypical rocker romance but there was so much potential here for angst and drama that pulled your heartstrings majorly, but it fell flat. I really wanted to love this book from start to finish, but I could only partially love it. I’m hoping the rest of the series will improve and the flow will stay electrified throughout. We’ll see.
LICK IT UP
Gillian ARcher
Release Date: April 16
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