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Book Title: Star Shadow: The Complete Series
Author: Beth Bolden
Publisher: Beth Bolden Books
Cover Artist: Cate Ashwood Designs
Release Date: February 18, 2021
Genre/s: Contemporary Gay Romance
Trope/s: Rock stars, reunited lovers, friends to lovers, bisexual awakening, hurt/comfort
Themes: coming out, forgiveness, found family
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 335,000 words (four full-length novels + bonus epilogue novella)
It’s the entire series.
Buy Links - Available in Kindle Unlimited
Can they fix the mistakes of the past?
Star Shadow met when they were only sixteen years old—four different guys, with four different dreams that coalesced into one when they became a worldwide phenomenon.
Hope was shredded, loyalties tested, and love destroyed.
But now there’s a chance to fix the mistakes of the past.
Love renewed. Friendship resurrected. They’ve earned a brand new beginning and a fresh start.
Includes four full length novels and an exclusive bonus epilogue novella. Approximately 350,000 words.
Terrible Things – When Caleb walked out, leaving his band and his lover behind, Leo knew he could never forgive. He never expected Caleb to show up again, clean and sober and wanting Star Shadow to get back together. But maybe this might not be so terrible after all.
Impossible Things - For the last ten years, Benji and Diego have not only been members of Star Shadow, but best friends. As much as they've both wanted more from their relationship, it never felt worth it to trade what they have for something hot, heady and completely impossible.
Hazardous Things - Felix can’t even remember the first time he crushed on Max, Star Shadow’s drummer. But he’s never acted on his feelings. One, because Max is his older brother’s best friend. Two, because Max is also his friend.Three, Max is technically his boss. And four, worst of all, Max is straight.
Extraordinary Things - Caleb knows he’s earned Leo’s forgiveness. He wants to believe he deserves it, but just when Leo needs him more than ever, a voice in his head insists that he doesn't. It’s so loud, he can't block it out. So loud, he’d do anything to silence it. Including risking everything he and Leo, and the rest of Star Shadow, have built together.
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My Rating - 5 Stars!
I can't recommend this series enough! Don't miss this chance to own all four books together! This is a must read series!
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Terrible Things is a complex and riveting romance. As the first book in Beth Bolden's Star Shadow series, I am already in love with this series.
Caleb loved Leo so intensely that it ruined him. He lost himself and everything he loved. Now he's healing, sober, and back in the band. But, the weight of his issues is still there, leaving him still trying to get himself back to where he wants to be.
Damn! The love between Caleb and Leo is one of the more intense ones I've read. Their love was their everything. And without one another, the sadness is always there.
They are survivors, their story is raw, intense, and positively compelling.
It's a long and difficult journey to try to find each other again.
I love every second of this tale. It's very angsty, but it's all for a good reason. I could feel Leo's pain jumping off the pages when Caleb returns. It's all consuming and intense. Then there's Caleb's pain, which will leave you in tears.
I can't recommend Terrible Things enough. I love every second of this spectacular love story, and look forward to what Beth Bolden comes up with next.
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If you read Terrible Things, you won't be surprised to find out that the next book in the Star Shadow series, Impossible Things, is equally as wonderful. Beth Bolden does a stellar job with the love story between band members and best friends Benji and Diego.
Their relationship is full of ups and downs, pushes and pulls. Both men have long loved one another, but have never been together. They've endured ten years of fear, bad timing, and chances gone wrong.
As they start to make their feelings known, they still have a lot of complications to face. One man's been fighting his bisexuality and longs to not be in the press. Meanwhile, the other longs to be famous and in the spotlight. Getting on the same page isn't automatic.
The heart of this story is the realistic difficulties involved with going from friends to lovers. The fear of ruining a friendship that means the world to you. The fear of going too fast. The fear of the sexual experience you've spent your whole life waiting for. I love these men. I love how deeply they love and how strong their longing for one another is.
There are so many things I love about these men. They are best friends, the chemistry is strong, but it's the desire to take things slow that I love best. It just seems so right, totally in line with the personalities involved. I appreciate that they have different goals and different ideas, yet still long to make their relationship work.
Their relationship is full of ups and downs, pushes and pulls. Both men have long loved one another, but have never been together. They've endured ten years of fear, bad timing, and chances gone wrong.
As they start to make their feelings known, they still have a lot of complications to face. One man's been fighting his bisexuality and longs to not be in the press. Meanwhile, the other longs to be famous and in the spotlight. Getting on the same page isn't automatic.
The heart of this story is the realistic difficulties involved with going from friends to lovers. The fear of ruining a friendship that means the world to you. The fear of going too fast. The fear of the sexual experience you've spent your whole life waiting for. I love these men. I love how deeply they love and how strong their longing for one another is.
There are so many things I love about these men. They are best friends, the chemistry is strong, but it's the desire to take things slow that I love best. It just seems so right, totally in line with the personalities involved. I appreciate that they have different goals and different ideas, yet still long to make their relationship work.
The author has created an intriguing world of stardom and it's pitfalls. The men are all amazingly developed, both endearing and complex, and the storylines are emotional, deep, and full of heart. The flaws, the hardships, the struggles, and the manipulation the band endures all make for a gripping read. Readers will instantly fall in love with these men and won't want to put this book down until the end.
I highly recommend Beth Bolden's Impossible Things to anyone who loves a great rock romance. If you haven't read the first book, however, do so now. This series is just that amazing!
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Hazardous Things, the third book in Beth Bolden's Star Shadow series, is a wonderful friends to lovers book.
This is the story of Max and Felix. I am excited to finally get their story and it certainly doesn't disappoint. It's a story of secret crushes and a story of an evolving relationship. Their story is one of confusion and doubts. A mix of forced proximity and slow burn, it's a frustrating journey for these two men to admit their feelings.
I love friends to lovers stories, and this one is certainly wonderful. There are plenty of emotions throughout, as Felix struggles with telling his best friend he loves him and risking his most important relationship.
The author brings out all the emotions in this story of taking chances and laying your heart on the line. The characters are well developed, and their storyline well done.
If you enjoy friends to lovers, be sure to check out Hazardous Things. Beth Bolden's third book in the Star Shadow series is a fun tale of one's crush and best friend not being so straight after all.
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Extraordinary Things, the fourth book in the Star Shadow Series is a wonderful book by Beth Bolden. This is a part of a series; a continuation of a painful, complex storyline. It is necessary to read the other books first, starting with Terrible Things.
This a second chance romance for Caleb and Leo. Caleb is getting healthy from addiction. He's still in love with Leo but isn't quite ready to be with him.
Caleb destroyed himself and is now struggling to forgive himself. His is a journey of learning to accept one's past, and move forward with acceptance and forgiveness.
Their love is a love worth fighting for. Their journey is full of pain, hurt, fear and apprehension. They have to deal with conflict and insecurities. The tension jumps off the pages.
Extraordinary Things is a story of trust. This Beth Bolden story is a tough read, but a worthwhile one. And it's a stunning finish to the Star Shadow series, which covers three love stories.
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Excerpt from Terrible Things
Leo was pretty sure he was going to be sick.
Not like a little bit sick, but the type of full-on sick that led to massively puking his guts up into this not-very-clean toilet.
Seriously, that was something they should have added to the tour rider—please ensure all bathrooms were cleaned thoroughly in case Leo Humphries needed to spend an hour crouched over a toilet.
The hard tile was digging into his jean-covered knees and the floor was freezing, but he couldn’t seem to move, didn’t even remember staggering in here. Definitely after he’d fixed his hair and he’d dressed in the simple jeans and t-shirt he’d picked out for the first night. It was only then that what he was about to do hit him, and the big lunch he’d eaten threatened to rise.
He’d been in here about an hour, give or take, and it was a surprise nobody had found him, but just when he’d thanked god that nobody had yet, the door creaked open and he heard footsteps walking toward his stall.
Leo closed his eyes. He’d wanted it to be just about anybody other than who it was. “Leo,” Caleb called softly. “I know you’re in here. Are you okay?”
Leo gripped the dingy toilet with only the tips of his fingers, felt the ceramic edge as it dug into his skin. “Not really,” he mumbled.
“Should’ve told someone. Not just run off.”
“Didn’t want anybody to know,” Leo admitted. Especially you.
“Don’t care.” Caleb’s voice was a little harsh. “Should have done it anyway.” He rattled the stall door. “Let me in.”
Leo exhaled and shook his head before he realized Caleb couldn’t see him. “No. Definitely no.”
Caleb harrumphed and then was quiet for a moment. “I could probably break this down, you know,” he finally said, and the stall door rattled harder this time.
“I’m sure you could,” Leo snapped. “But that would be rude.”
“Don’t care.” The door shook again, even harder this time around. For a split second, Leo actually considered hefting himself off the floor to brace against the flimsy door in an attempt to prevent Caleb’s forced entry.
Not moving won out by a very narrow margin, but then the door jerked hard in its wimpy foundation and Leo had to reconsider. At this rate, Caleb might actually pull the entire set of stalls down, and that wasn’t going to look very good when everyone inevitably found out.
He could see the headlines now. Star Shadow destroys bathroom at tour venue.
Leo raised himself to his knees and flicked the lock. The door swung open and Caleb was standing in the opening, wearing an obnoxiously patterned shirt.
“You’re annoying,” Leo growled, dropping back to his original position and praying that at some point in the next few minutes his body finally decided what it wanted to do. He was frustrated with its indecisiveness.
Never mind that at some point during the evening, he needed to get together enough to actually go out onstage and perform for whoever had decided to show up.
Caleb crouched down by Leo, gaze very concerned. “Are you nervous?”
“No, I ate some bad shellfish,” Leo snapped.
Caleb’s chuckle was soft. “Nerves it is then.”
“Honestly, Caleb. Of course it’s nerves.”
“You have nothing to be nervous about. You know that, right?” Caleb reassured him.
Leo frowned.
Reaching forward, Caleb hesitatingly put his hand on Leo’s back. “I’m serious. You’re great. You’re always great.”
That was so completely untrue that Leo nearly laughed. “Actually, no. I’m not at all.” He paused. “I mean, I’m just not the same, you know? I’m not going to be the same. And they’ll all see it. They’ll see who I really am.”
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A lifelong Oregonian, Beth Bolden has just recently moved to North Carolina with her supportive husband and their sweet kitten, Earl Grey. Beth still believes in Keeping Portland Weird, and intends to be just as weird in Raleigh.
Beth has been writing practically since she learned the alphabet. Unfortunately, her first foray into novel writing, titled Big Bear with Sparkly Earrings, wasn’t a bestseller, but hope springs eternal. She’s published twenty novels and six novellas.
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