Joel and Key are best friends, band mates, roommates, and more. Soulmates even. But when Joel falls in love with Dusty, a woman he met stripping in Vegas and Key falls in love with Cherry, the woman with the sexy voice on the fantasy phone line, and a threat faces their metal band, Joel and Key get to decide what they want their lives to be and whom they want in their lives with them. Sexy. Explicit. A fun read.

An absolute banger from LH Blake and I need to read more from this author. Yes there was smut and some pretty raunchy scenes but there was such a story there and so much more than a meet cute and shag! This is the kind of story I will think about! Couldn’t put the book down, thank you NetGalley for letting me read and review.

I went into this a little blind and a lot of unsure of the plot. Maybe if I'd read the first two books in the series I'd have been a little more interested in the characters and their struggles. I honestly wasn't super interested in anyone though. Everyone involved just felt very one dimensional, even with the split POVs I feel like we never really got to know the characters. At times it felt like I was reading a journal entry and everything was being written in a specific order. That being said, it did make it very easy to get lost in the story and there were no moments where I had to pause to look anything up or really ponder the meaning of a sentence. Not too bad. It did make me physically recoil to read "I'm not like most girls." in a book being published in 2025.

I was a little icked out by a lot of the on page conversations that took place. I think it got to a point where the phone sex got to be a lot and it was feeling very icky in the relationships that were forming. Especially because it would switch POVs and it was a little jarring. On an unrelated note, I was rooting for the band in the lawsuit and I do hope they sue for defamation.

Final notes: This was an interesting book that I think will find the right audience on Tiktok and be very popular for its 80s backdrop, poly romance, smut percentage, and the fact that it reads like stranger things fanfiction. If that seems like something you're interested in, you'll probably enjoy this book and I assume the rest of the series, I am just not the right person for this book I guess.

Thank you netgalley and L.H. Blake for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Publishing on Goodreads on 04/06/2025.

This was a really sweet poly romance. Set in the late 80s, we watch Dusty and Joel begin their relationship, while also getting flashbacks to Dusty's childhood, where she's falling in love with Key, which the readers know is Joel's best friend and bandmate.

To be honest, until it was spelled out to me, I didn't realise it was set in the 80s. If you're worried about it being over top or dipped in references and lingo you're not used to, don't be. It was just a really nice little blast from the past, which favoured the use of a specific trope.

The writing wasn't my favourite, and while the characters clearly had intricate backstories, they still fell a bit flat at times. The phone sex scenes weren't for me either. To me, they work as examples of her job, but didn't create any feelings between the two characters, despite what the characters claimed. The other smutty scenes however were HOT and I loved them.

The love triangle did feel like it was bordering on cheating at times, which I'm not a huge fan of. Just because we the readers knew/could assume the identity of the mystery caller, Dusty clearly didn't. Technically everything happened rather fast in Joel and Dusty's relationship, but because it was interspersed with flashbacks to Dusty and Key falling in love as children, it felt like it was going on longer, which I think is where my discomfort of Dusty prolonging her decision came from. I'm impatient. And because this is a poly/why choose romance, it did feel a bit like a slow burn, since the final person in the relationship isn't there until the very end. That's not a bad thing, I just didn't expect it.

Overall, I enjoyed this story and I love discovering new authors who write retro and/or abnormal relationships, so L.H. Blake is definitely someone I'm going to read more books from.