Review: Get Your Rocks Off Series Books 1-3 by Sam Hall

Get Your Rocks Off Books 1-3 by Sam Hall
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Fae Shenanigans

I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This omnibus of 3 books is the start of the series. I believe there are already or going to be 2 more books after this volume. I’m so glad I read these books all in one chunk because I think I would have thrown my kindle at the wall at the ends of each of books 1 and 2, due to cliffhangers. The three books merge together as a seamless whole.  The three books included are; Book 1 - Away With The Fairies, Book 2 - Riding For A Fall, Book 3 - Star On The Rise.

Kira is a young woman who has never lived independently. She has a fine arts degree, earns a living by her production of stock photographs but she lives in a cottage on her parent’s land. She suffers from severe visual disturbances and migraines. Her condition doesn’t have a confirmed diagnosis but it is debilitating, which is why she lives in a small town where everyone knows who to contact when she collapses in pain. Her one diversion is her photography and her one friend is Jen.

Jen is the daughter of an exceptionally wealthy and powerful man. He is a successful music executive and his home is filled with powerful, beautiful and debauched people on a regular basis. Kira tends to avoid these beautiful people because she feels that she is unattractive and uninteresting. Jen is always trying to get her to appreciate her own beauty but she fails.

Jen finally convinces Kira to take a job photographing a party for her father. At the party she meets The Changelings, the band that have visited her dreams, loving and seducing her, for months. As well as photographing them, she interviews them and in doing so, the band decide they want her on their tour with them.

Everything is changing for Kira, her world is being shaken to the core. She is going out to explore the world, without parental support, to live a rich, distracting and chaotic life. Then her world is turned over even more, as she discovers the world isn’t what she thought it was, and neither is she.

This is a darkly seductive book. The people in this book are damaged and damaging. They lash out and hurt those around them because they have been hurt. So much is hidden about the characters and their motivations that we have no idea why everyone is acting the way they are acting, or how they are going to act at any given point. The plot is filled with twists and turns, beauty, passion, power and pain.

This book is principally about power and love. The characters strive for both and it’s hard to tell which characters strive for what. Kira is thrust into a confusing and difficult world and we are forced to watch as she is put through the mill as she tries to find her balance and hopefully work towards her happiness.

The world-building in this book is rich and complex. We initially see the dark beauty of the fae world and marvel at its decadence and debauchery. Then the author gradually peels back the layers so we can see the rot behind the glittering mask. We learn about the courts and the gods and the fae and how they all interact. We learn about power and how everything fae is related to who has it, who can generate it and who can use it.

The plot is a dark and twisted thing that skitters and dances as you read, never knowing which direction it’s going to turn next. It’s complicated and intriguing and I couldn’t stop reading because I HAD to know what was coming next. I couldn’t predict what would happen next and that rarely happens to me, so when it does I LOVE it.

The plot was principally driven by the characters, their history and personalities. Their complexity is what created the unpredictable plot. Each character is cleverly constructed, with a rich back story and personalities. Their relationships with each other are a tangled web of unknown events in the past that we can only guess at, though the author slowly reveals some key points that help explain some of their motives and why the plot is so unpredictable.

I will say that I didn’t actually like quite a lot of the characters. Personally, if I were to meet them I wouldn’t give them the time of day, and in the blurb at the back of the book, the author echoes that statement, which makes me like her that much more. So many of the characters are seriously damaged individuals and they lash out like toddlers in their fear and their rage. Because we understand their pain, doesn’t mean they don’t inflict their own brand of damage on others. It does make them fascinating to read about though.

Kira is a very interesting MFC. She’s spent most of her life being powerless and uninteresting. Then she is thrust into a world that insists that she has power and is beautiful and fascinating. She is confused and seduced by the passion and beauty that now surrounds her and is at the same time terrified of it.

This book is filled with passion and heat and if you are easily offended by sex in any of it’s forms you will probably hate this book with a fiery passion. There are some trigger warnings throughout the book but I didn’t really feel uncomfortable reading and I usually at least feel slightly uneasy through most books that offer trigger warnings, even if they don’t trigger me personally, however, these triggers are not my triggers and I can’t comment about how that might affect another reader.

All in all, it’s a really good read if you enjoy slightly darker, edgy and sexy fae shenanigans!

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