Review: Out of the Red (The Braxton Hunte Story Series Book 1) by Arell Rivers

Out of the Red: The Braxton Hunte Story by Arell Rivers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Good Rock Star Story

This is a good solid rocker story, with some interesting twists. The story is set in the 90s. I think the idea being that this is the start of a family series, so time passing for future books makes sense. Plus, the 90s were fun for rock!

Braxton Hunte is the lead singer of the rock band Hunte and they hit the charts 8 years previous to this book. At 20 years old the band hit the big time, his son was born to his high school sweetheart and then within a year his marriage fell apart, whilst his career was soaring.

Hunte had amazing success over the first four years of their career, but lately their star has been waning somewhat. Their venues are smaller and their bills have remained at the same level. Hunte tours haven’t run in the black for several years.

Sara Anderson is on the partnership track at an accountancy firm in Chicago. She’s known for being meticulous and keeping ballet and concert tours running in the black. It’s decided that in order to prove herself completely to the partners she needs to take on the notoriously difficult Hunte Tour account.

After realising the band is never going to stick to her daily budgets she decides to go and join them on tour and talk to the guys herself to make them see that staying on budget is the only thing from stopping them from going bankrupt.

The straight-laced Sara and the spendthrift rock star do not see eye to eye from the outset as Sara tries to cut back their spending. However, she starts to understand why some of the expenses are necessary and the band starts to understand why they need to make cuts.

I really like how this story is set up. It’s really unusual to come at the rock star storyline from the point of view of potential bankruptcy. Normally the story is all about how the rock star’s fame is the thing keeping the MMC and the MFC apart. In this story it’s all about the money!

I really liked both Brax and Sara. They were interesting characters with good strong backstories that helped make sense of their equally stubborn personalities. But, I preferred those characters together as they rubbed off some of their more sharp corners as they spent time together.

This was the first time I’d read anything by this author, and I’m glad I took a gamble on it. I’ll definitely be reading the next in the series, and I’ll probably be checking out some of the other work she’s done, because I do like a good rock star story!

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