As You Wish (Rock Stars in Love #1)

As You Wish (Rock Stars in Love #1)

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Love doesn’t always follow the sheet music . . .

This Christmas, Portia Jackson needs a miracle to save her family’s generations-old florist shop. What she gets instead is a car that breaks down during a blizzard. Help arrives unexpectedly when the infamous Aubry Riley pulls over. She only expects him to drive her to the gas station . . . she never expects that kiss. But Po...more
ebook, 314 pages
Published September 4th 2012 by Elyssa Patrick

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Becs - Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews
This is a nice contemporary romance debut from Elyssa Patrick.

Aubry Riley, mega-famous rock star, widower and father is driving home on a dark desert Vermont highway to join his sister who is caring for his 6 year old daughter for Christmas. He is flagged down by a young woman, Portia, whose decrepit old car has conked out on her on the side of the road. He stops to help and drives her to the nearest store to wait in the warm. There is an instant attraction between them and the story goes from h...more
Guilty Pleasures
Slick's review posted on Guilty Pleasures

4.5 Stars

I so love finding new authors to read, I especially love it when an author I already read and enjoy recommends a book for review. So first, I must thank the lovely and talented Tamara Morgan for suggesting I read As You Wish by Elyssa Patrick. Secondly, I must thank Elyssa herself for writing a truly engaging, humorous, and steamy novel. I’m especially excited because this is her first book and for a first book it is well written, has good charac...more
Jenn
This read like a Beauty and the Beast modern day story. At times I felt it was ridiculous and other times there were parts that felt immature. Too many times Shakespeare and Jane Austen and random superhero nicknames came in to play as well as Disney and Fairytale names. I felt like the author tried to pull out all the obvious stops in to this book.

The stops being:
abuse, rags to riches, a gay interracial couple, the girl who LOVES the wrong guy who never notices her but his brother loves her an...more
Luisa
This author showed great promise. The plot line and the characters are interesting and entertaining. However, the dialogues didn't resonate with me much, and I think the book lacked clarity on the development of the relation between Portia and Aubry and about Aubry's past. In one part it says that Aubry did drugs for one year, and had to take control of his addiction when his sister threatened to take his daughter from him. Then in another part, the author presents that Aubrey had been battling...more
Melody May
On What I'm Reading http://sillymelody.blogspot.com

The past couple of days I have been reading As You Wish by Elyssa Patrick. I have to say I was impress with the story for being a debut book. I actually really enjoyed it.

My Overview:

Aubry Riley a rockstar trying to put his life together again. Especially, since he fell apart after his wife Zoë died by a drunk driver six years prior. Picking up the pieces of his fragile life, he decides to fix the relationship between his daughter and sister.

P...more
Shirley Frances
3.5

This is one of those books that grabbed my attention from the synopsis but started losing it somewhere along the way and then grabbed it again.

Aubry is a rock star in need on a break to clear his head and find his muse. He lost his wife 5 years ago, went through a rough patch and wants to make amends to his daughter and his sister. Portia is a flower shop owner, who does not do one-night stands, but runs away at the first signs of love.

Like I stated before, the synopsis of this book really...more
Mandi Schreiner


The debut book by Elyssa Patrick features a very famous rock star hero, and a heroine who owns a floral shop in Vermont. All Aubrey wants to do is get to his sister’s lake house near Burlington before it snows too much and the press catch onto where he is. His six year old daughter awaits, as does some quiet time where he can hopefully start writing music again. Six years ago his wife died in a car accident, leaving behind an infant daughter and much pain for Aubrey. His dabbling in drugs turned...more
Lady Lioness
I liked this book because Aubry, the hero, is an asshole and he knows it. He owns his asshole-ness. While he does try to become a better father, his personality pretty much remained the same. Aubry is also a drug addict & an alcoholic and it's handled very matter-of-factly. It's there, it's part of who he is, but he's been clean for five years now and it's not in the forefront of his life. He's more concerned about reconnecting with his daughter and salvaging his music career. Aubry knows pr...more
Judi
I loved the cover of As You Wish as soon as I saw it. It’s sexy, I love their expressions and they are a gorgeous couple plus the blurb sounded really interesting. Rock Star celebrity meets small town girl and the sparks fly.

Unfortunately Aubrey’s a bit of an ass - ok he’s a big ole douchebag throughout most of the early part of this book and he's the first to admit he's a grade A jerk and I'll give him he's got cause. He’s certainly closed himself off to all relationships including close family...more
Stephanie Collins
Although at times I wanted to kill both main characters, I really enjoyed this due to the dialogue.

Aubry is a ROCK STAR… he has hit bottom due to a personal tragedy plus his own self-destructive behavior. He's a bad boy who never has claimed to be anything else but… he really isn't a bad guy. Truly he isn't but dammit some of the stuff he says and does to the heroine made me want to kill him then kill her for not having a backbone to tell him to take his attitude, sexy self and everything else a...more
Babyfishmouth
2.5 Stars

I love the premise of this book: Rich, disillusioned rock star reluctantly falls in love with optimistic, small town girl.
They meet during a snow storm and he rescues her from the side of the road. He notices that she smells like peonies and peppermint. That's right. Peonies. Because every world famous, former drug addict rock star can easily identify the scent of peonies. Little odd, head scratching moments like this are fairly frequent in the book and diminished the appeal. The heroi...more
Alexia Chantel
3.5 Stars

As You Wish is a delightful debut. The characters are fun and real, making you feel like you are reading about your friends. The plot is cute and full of things you may find yourself doing.

Aubry is a great character. The rocker who lost, survived drugs and alcohol, is working at repairing his bridges, and is ready to grab onto his second chance at love. He is also sarcastic and funny, the kind of guy you want to rescue you from the roadside.

There are a few editorial errors, but easy eno...more
The Year of Reading Scandalously
I really wanted to fall in love with this book. At times, I thought I was almost there. But somewhere along the way it just fell apart for me. Maybe I started caring more about her best friend's story. Maybe I got frustrated with the pacing. Maybe I should have waited to read another book after the explosion of awesome longing romance that is Tessa Dare's newest.

That said, because I cared so much about the Finn (!!!)/ Laura story arc and saw so much promise there, I will take a chance on her ne...more
Emily
Rock Star Aubry Riley arrives in Vermont wanting to start a new leaf with his six year old daughter. His reputation as a bad boy is not far from the truth, he has earned whole heartily everything said about him. When he stops to help a stranded car on the snow covered road, he doesn't quite know how to read the flighty blonde woman and her quirky behavior.

Portia Jackson's life is not going as plan, she is about to lose her shop that her family worked hard to build and now her knight in shining a...more
Katie
Mar 24, 2013 Katie rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2013
Oh, I don't know. I really liked this beginning of this book, but, as I feared, that feeling didn't last through the whole thing. One problem were there were too many subplots. And I LIKED the subplots, but there wasn't enough time for any of them, so they got resolved way too quickly. I was really hopeful for the secondary romance when the hints of it started, but that in particular was wrapped up WAY too neatly.

The central romance started off really great. I liked that Aubry came off as a real...more
Kat Morrisey
I really liked this book though I was a bit surprised at the secondary story line involving Laura. That seemed to come out of the blue and resolved quickly...(I would have loved for her to have her own book! Okay, I know, I should be greedy!) I also would have liked to see more interaction between Portia and Roxie (especially given the end and the epilogue -won't say more than that cause I don't want to spoil it here.)

Full review to come soon!
Kate Meader
This is a very cute contemporary romance with a rock star hero and a girl-next-door florist. Nice and easy writing style with shots of humor. My only complaints were that the hero is a bit of a douche through the first half and the heroine lets him away with murder! I also wasn't a fan of the overly-precocious daughter/moppet but all the other secondary characters were very nicely written. Cute secondary romance as well. I'm looking forward to the next book.
Monica
Not liking the male lead until almost the end of the book put a damper on this one for me. Aubry was a JERK to his daughter and that was a big turn off for me. I liked Portia and her family, but honestly found myself wishing the story had more about side characters Finn & Laura. The first thought in my head after I finished: "Eh."
Theresa
Although I love the story of Aubrey & Portia this book has one of my pet-peeves in spade. The cute kid that's only there as an accessory. Doesn't act like a kid, doesn't sound like a kid, but is supposed to be his main purpose in being in the town to begin with.
Jess
I stopped at 42% and am DNF'ing. I truly can't stand Aubry. He's an ass, he belittles the heroine and then has the nerve to call her names when she won't accept his apology. I like the supporting characters well enough, but not enough to keep reading about Aubry.
Wendy
Another book I really wanted to love but it was disappointing and all over the place. It jumped in and out of other characters lives in the book it was so random, but I feel the main issue is the author just could not connect with her main characters so neither do the readers.
Nicole Helm
I like the writing and some of the secondary characters, but I could not get over the asshole hero. Even though I couldn't finish this book, I'll still keep an eye out for this author because with a better hero I think I would really enjoy her books.
Carey Baldwin
There's nothing like a wonderful love story (like this one!) to pick you up when you're blue. I've heard so many times that you are not "allowed" to write a rock star hero. Lucky for us Elyssa Patrick didn't get the memo :-) Loved it!
Tiffany Clare
I absolutely adore this book. The characters are real, and the story is fantastic and it stays with you a long time. You'll be wanting to gobble up Elyssa's future books!
Shiloh Walker
this was fun. only complaint, wish Laura and Finn had gotten a story of their own, but still didn't change my enjoyment of the story.
ms bookjunkie
Jun 08, 2013 ms bookjunkie rated it 4 of 5 stars
Recommended to ms bookjunkie by: Courtney Milan gave me a copy
I liked that they were both in the wrong some of the time, imperfect, even difficult.
Mindy
This book was light and funny and sexy!! I absolutely adored it!!
Marisol
I'm not finishing this book. I'm not into it at all.
Amy
I really like all the characters from the book not just the H/H and the storyline was very enjoyable. I wish there would have been more on the coming together of 2 of the sub-characters.
ByBy
Nice!Really nice! :)
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Elyssa Patrick writes sexy, emotional contemporary romances and New Adult. Her first New Adult, STAY WITH ME, releases on 8/30/13.

More about Elyssa Patrick...
One Hit Wonder (Rock Stars in Love #1.5) Everything You Desire Dream With Me (With Me #3) Go With Me (With Me #2) Christmas With Me (With Me #1.5)

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