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Mature Young Adult: A sexually charged coming of age. ~ Jake, an up and coming teenage rocker on the verge of stardom, reconnects with Alyssa, the younger girl next door. When she becomes something more they're forced to face the harsh realities on his road to fame and the expectations of their friends and family. Sacrifices are made as everything changes as they know it.

“This is a powerful emotional read that is hard to put down and even harder to forget once the story has ended.” ~ Danielle, bookwhoreblog.com

“Fans of Beautiful Disaster will love this one with Rocker boys, first love and page turning goodness. First Kiss is a must read of 2013.” ~ Bella, Paranormal Book Club

17 year old high school senior, Jake Masters, front man of a rising rock band, finds new interest in his younger freshman next door neighbor Alyssa Montgomery. Their relationship breaks hearts; stirs jealousy and band infighting. When they’re brought to new found awareness of body and soul, will rightful boundaries be crossed? Will the right decisions and choices, which are detrimental to the band and its future, be made through the haze of infatuation? Will Jake’s absences on the road lead to another filling his shoes? Jake and Alyssa’s lifelong friendships are strained and tested; secrets are kept, admitted and shared. Family bonds are broken, as others grow stronger. Who knew a first love could cause so many problems? Then again, in their eyes, there are no problems as long as they’re together. In the end, will his new found muse bring down everything he’s worked so hard to achieve or will she inspire positive creative change; that will carry him and his band to stardom.

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ASIN : B00DBN7JFW
Publisher : AMF Publishing (December 14, 2013)
Publication date : December 14, 2013
Language : English
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Ann Marie Frohoff is becoming one of my favorite authors so glad that I was introduced to this ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2016

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First Kiss
By Ann Marie Frohoff

Five Stars

If I could give a book ten stars than I definitely would do so right now. Ann Marie Frohoff is becoming one of my favorite authors so glad that I was introduced to this particular author by a friend. Let me tell you, I’m a huge fan when it comes to rock star romances. If you like Leslie Jones Carnage, it has that feel. It’s different but for some reason the entire book I will admit I was comparing.

Though they are different I fell in love with both of these books equally.

In Skid Out (or if you read this book first - either way it works) you see Aly and Jake. Aly the young neighbor and Jake the up and coming rock star who is about to hit it decently big.

Aly falls in love. Fast. Hard. She might have been in love with him before she even realized it. First love. First kiss. New love.

Everything about this book speaks of teen romance. Aly’s inexperienced when it comes to relationship, discovering not only herself but Jake in the meantime. Jake is so sure of himself but when it comes to Aly he knows what he wants even if it meant taking everyone out in the process.

When things get hard and it is make it or break it what will happen with a couple that is madly in love? What happens when you can’t ignore what the outside sources are saying any more and give into what you know can be true. When you are ripped apart from everything you love.

Read this book you won’t be disappointed one bit.

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krystal g

loved it

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2016

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First Kiss is Book 1 in the Heavy Influence set. Ann Marie Frohoff started off with Skid out, a novella to First Kiss which gives you a lot of insight into the lives of Jake and Alyssa. First Kiss starts out pretty much the same way. You get a recap of Skid Out (for those who have not read it or may have forgotten how it went). Jake is a senior in high school and a musician and has had it bad for his freshman neighbor, who he has known forever, he watched her grow up but suddenly shes not this little girl any longer. Alyssa has been crushing on Jake for a along time but she’s always been her big brothers ex best friend. She was only a freshman surely he wouldn’t even notice her as more then “Ali the neighbor girl”. Until he does, and they spend time together, and get to know each other. What happens when Jake goes out on the road with his band? Will him and Ali be able to stay close with groupies everywhere and someone constantly taking pictures of Jake with fans in compromising positions. When it seems like everything they have worked so hard for seems to be falling apart can they fight it together and come out on top. The story does a great job of keeping you hooked and the teenager portrayal is spot on. The story goes back and forth between Alyssa and James point of view, but written in such a way that you stay on point with the story.

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Charlotte

Heavy like for this first book in the series

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2016

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I read a lot of books and generally write reviews of them all. I am quite stingy with 5 star reviews. This book had a lot of potential. There were things I liked about this book and things I didn't care for.

I will start with the positives:

The length was pretty good considering this is a YA book. Normally YA books are too short to satisfy me. I also enjoyed the story line. The main characters were likable and believable, though I often found myself wanting to shake some sense in to them. I like the thought of young love overcoming obstacles. The age difference between the 2 characters was definitely relatable to teens now, as were the complications that arose from this age difference. I enjoyed getting inside both their heads with the dual points of view. It was nice to know how Jake really felt about her, so that I didn't spend the whole book thinking he was some older guy just trying to score with his cute neighbor. I liked how she inspired him. This book gave me a lot of angst and I really like it when a book makes me feel things. The author did a good job drawing out the teenage drama. And she really made me love Jake and Aly and root for them to defy the odds. I know the book is part of a series, so I don't mind the lack of final closure on this one and I am glad that it ending leaving me with some hope rather than devastated.

The things I didn't like:

The editing needs some work. There were typos and missing words frequently enough to notice. I can overlook a few, but someone should have really caught these issues before publishing. Also the time gaps create much confusion. I like the dual points of view that the author used, but it would have made the story flow much better if when an event is going to be told from both perspectives if the chapters didn't go for several days and then backtrack to the other person's point of view on the event from last week. Also it would be helpful to note passage of time within chapters with line breaks. When paragraphs flow together it gives the reader an impression of continuous time (especially with no frame of reference), but that was often not the case. We would read about a time when Jake and Aly were together and then the next paragraph is a few days later, yet there was no indication that time had passed. I also had a problem with 2 chapters being told from Rachel's point of view. I think it is distracting to have only 2 chapters from her. The info in those chapters was necessary, but it either should have been presented differently or there should have been a few more chapters interspersed from her point of view to tie things together better. There were also some rather big things in my opinion that were presented and dropped with not enough info to deal with them. ********SLIGHT SPOILERS in this part********* When Jake dropped the bomb in the large intervention meeting that his mom never really knew his dad, that was never mentioned again. If I was his mom, I would want to know what he meant by that, yet she never mentions it that we know of. The plan that Rachel and Sienna were whispering about in the tour van and Dump told them to shut up, it would have been helpful to have a Rachel chapter to clue readers in as to what all was involved in her plan. At the New Year's Eve party we find that Jake and Aly were seeing each other in secret for months, yet we only got chapters about a couple of times of them seeing each other after the parent blow up. And the plan that Jake and Aly had to throw people off, there was no groundwork laid to clue readers in that they had a plan. Also there should have been some lead up about Eva James in the Jake chapters before he just plans to go to her party, especially if he had been seeing her. Also I did have issue with Jake's mom. She wasn't involved with Jake's personal life when he was drinking, doing drugs and screwing around, yet when he finds love and inspiration she finally decides to butt in and try to control things. I would have expected her to feel some empathy for her son falling in love, yet she came off really selfish and cold.

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Deborah

Absorbing read, but ends on cliffhanger

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2013

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Jake and Ally are next door neighbours and have been their entire lives, he's 17 good looking, in a band that's going places he's used to female attention and is treated with awe at school. Ally is 14 she has her own group of friends and will be staring at Jakes school as a freshman this year. Jakes sees Ally and realises she's grown up, he feels an attraction towards her he doesn't understand, Ally's had a crush on one of her friends Matt for ages but once she sees Jake he's all she can think about. This is a book about young love made more difficult by circumstances, family and friends.
I read the first part of this book before checking out the reviews simply because I was on holiday at the time and it was easier this worked out well since one of the reviews basically tells you how it ends and I don't think I would have otherwise have started this, anyway by this point I was committed so I stuck with it and I'm so glad I did although I must admit I found it difficult to get into in places but that's because I read fairly quickly but due to interruptions this book took me ages to get through, not the books fault.
Once I'd got reading I really enjoyed this book and felt deeply for the characters involved, I looked for more work by this author, a friend had already pointed out Skid Out which is about 50 pages long but it turns out it's just the start of this book so a taster really I'd just approached them the wrong way round. The next book Broken Notes isn't predicted to be out until April 2014 so I've a bit of a wait to find out what happens next, but this is well worth a read.
Just one thing, I do have a thing for book covers and I don't think this one works at all, he's all wrong it wasn't until I wrote this review that I saw the cover otherwise I would have pictured him as Jake and that wouldn't have worked for me.

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TinaT

Loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2014

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Well this was a book I found hard to put down. A love story which borders on obsessive although sweet in the context. Aly is a typical teenage girl with all the usual hang ups, Jake is the guy next door who is about to hit big for his music. Both have known each other for years but not actually noticed the other this way before. They start a relationship which is complicated by lots of different factors. The outcome is a horrible way to be torn apart from the one you love. I can't wait for the next book to see where their journey takes them next.

Good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2013

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This book was very good but I felt it was quite a sluggish read and dragged a bit. I found my self permanently checking how far through I was. How ever it was a great book no the less but took me a lot longer to read than usual.

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Brenda Williams

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2014

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It reminds me of how we'd lie to our parents, sneak out of the house, and make poor decisions at times because all we care about is being with our boyfriend/girlfriend.

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Dawn Quinn

excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2015

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What a excellent book. Really fantastic read. I stayed up all night it was great! Highly recommended and great sorry!

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