Review: Music of the Heart by Katie Ashley

Music of the Heart
Katie Ashley
Series: Runaway Train #1
Publication date: March 24th 2013 by Smashwords
Rating: ★★★☆☆

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For Abby Renard, the plan was supposed to be simple—join her brothers’ band on the last leg of their summer tour and decide if she’s finally ready for the limelight by becoming its fourth member. Of course, she never imagined stumbling onto the wrong tour bus at Rock Nation would accidentally land her in the bed of Jake Slater, the notorious womanizing lead singer of Runaway Train. When he mistakes her for one of his groupie’s, Abby quickly lets him know she sure as hell isn't in his bed on purpose.

Jake Slater never imagined the angel who fell into his bed would resist his charms by promptly kneeing him in the balls. Of course, the fact she seems like a prissy choir girl makes her anything but his type. So he is more than surprised when after betting Abby she wouldn’t last a week on their tour bus, she is more than willing to prove him wrong. But as Jake’s personal life begins to implode around him, he finds an unlikely ally in Abby. He’s never met a woman he can talk to, joke with, or most importantly make music with.

As the week starts comes to a close, neither Abby nor Jake is ready to let go. Can a sweetheart Country songstress and a bad boy of Rock N Roll actually have a future together?

Abby is supposed to join her brothers' band while they're on tour and play with them, taking the opportunity to see if she's ready to become their fourth member.

At least that's the plan, not that it works out so great for her.

Because bad hearing and people's inability to do their jobs lands her in the wrong bus. Or, more precisely, in the wrong bed. Yep, that's right. Abby climbs into bed only to wake up later with someone who's very much not related to her trying to lay there with her. She couldn't be more surprise when she finds out that said someone is actually Runaway Train's lead singer, Jake Slater, because that's their bus she ended up on.

Jake's reaction to her is one of surprise, because he never imagined that anyone who fell into his bed would promptly resist his charms and actually knee him in the balls. He's so sure of himself that he thinks the only reason she didn't want anything to do with him is because she's dressed like a choir girl which, in his eyes, means that she judged him worthless of her time the minute she laid eyes on his tattoos.

What he least expects is for her to take him on his bet: that she wouldn't survive spending a week on the tour bus with them. Abby immediately jumps on the chance to prove him wrong, much to all of her family members' horror, and to prove that there's more to people than what they look or dress like.

The week they spend together is full of ups and down, family drama, misunderstandings, finding love in places you never thought you would, heartbreak, and, of course, lots and lots of music.

I didn't fell in love with Music of the Heart and its characters. It was those types of books you pick it up and have a good time reading only to promptly forget everything about it afterwards.

Nothing really stood out to me except for Abby's take-no-shit attitude and Jake's relationship with his mother. 

For Abby, it was really fun reading about a lead character who's not afraid to speak her mind and let everyone know when they're being total and complete jerks. It's nice to know that there are books about there about girls that are not okay with being pushed around and are not afraid to stand up for themselves.

And as for Jake and his mom... You could feel through the pages his despair and hopelessness and how hurt he was about what was happening. It was really difficult to read about their interactions and not be touched by the amount of love they had for each other. And then it was just downright heartbreaking reading about what happened.

But yeah, Music of the Heart wasn't really for me. I don't regret taking the time to read it, but I also don't feel up to reading more about Abby and Jake. That's not to say I didn't like Katie Ashley's writing and wouldn't read any other books by her, because I would. This particular story just wasn't my thing. But maybe it could be yours.