Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Loving Dallas by Caisey Quinn

Loving Dallas is the second book out of Caisey Quinn’s Neon Dreams series. It follows the lives the country band Leaving Amarillo: Dixie, Gavin and Dallas. Dixie is a talented fiddle/violin player and sister to Dallas and she is quite a talented lyricist.  Gavin is the super sexy, bad boy drummer and Dallas is the guitar playing older brother to Dixie who is driven to succeed.

The first book left me hanging and honestly I was upset.  I didn’t want the band to break up and I wasn’t ready for the story to end.  Loving Dallas starts right where Leaving Amarillo left off with Dallas going on tour without Dixie and Gavin.  His manipulative manager Mandy has changed his name from Dallas Lark to Dallas Walker and he is touring with Jase Wade as his opening act.  Dallas definitely isn’t feeling sure of his new persona and not quite loving the ebb and flow of touring and the money making business of the music industry.

Dallas has enough on his plate but then he gets hit with seeing Robyn Breeland again.  The girl who dumped him years ago with no explanation.  Robyn has the job of her dreams handling PR and marking for Midnight Bay who is sponsoring the tour.  She has worked her butt off the get where she is and no matter how attracted she is to Dallas she has to stay the course.

Of course, there is a backstory here and you need to read it because it is super enjoyable.  Dallas is the only boy Robyn has ever loved and the chemistry between the two is hot.  Dallas never understood why they broke up and there is alot of water underneath their bridge.  Deals are struck but will these two get burned again?

Pick this one up because the banter between these two is fantastic, the chemistry on fire and if you love second chance romance, Loving Dallas is the book for you.  If I am honest, I wanted more Dixie and Gavin but I know there time is coming and I can’t wait.  The Neon Dreams series is Caisey Quinn’s finest work to date.  She really dives into the seedy side of the music scene but also shows her love for music through her characters’s words and actions.  Caisey feels the music, the characters feel the music and you feel the music all the way through these books.

LOVING DALLAS

I should’ve changed clothes.

It’s the only thought I can hold on to as the cabdriver drops me in front of Rosa’s Diner, a small fifties-themed place tucked between a run-down hardware store and an all-night pharmacy.

For God’s sakes, I still have my Kickin’ Up Crazy tour sponsor pass dangling from the Midnight Bay lanyard around my neck.

Nice, Robyn. Very sexy.

I yank it off and shove it in my purse knowing that I should not care about being sexy. This is just pancakes with an old friend. An old friend who might not even show.

Just as I whip out my compact to check my makeup, I see him out of the corner of my eye. Dallas beat me here, probably because I took a twenty-five-minute detour of indecisiveness. Snapping the compact shut, I pace for a few minutes.

“It’s not a big deal, Robyn. Stop acting like a teenager having lunch with the varsity quarterback. It’s just Dallas,” I whisper-yell at myself. “You’re being ridiculous. Cut it out.”

I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I don’t know why, but it feels like this particular decision is much grander than it warrants.

It’s pancakes. He’s a friend. No big.

But as I open the diner door and a bell chimes overhead, his eyes meet mine and the moment feels monumental. I check the steel cage I erected around my heart the moment I learned he was going to be on this tour. Seems fairly sound, no major breaches so far. That I can feel anyway.

I give Dallas Lark the best I-am-so-over-you, this-is-totally-casual-and-it’s-all-good-in-the-neighborhood smile that I can.

His answering smirk tells me that one thing definitely hasn’t changed—even after all this time.

I’m still a crappy liar.

LOVING DALLAS PLAYLIST

“Crazy Town,” Jason Aldean

“Ho Hey,” Lumineers

“Smoke,” A Thousand Horses

“This Town,” Clare Bowen and Charles Esten

“Even if It Breaks Your Heart,” Eli Young Band

“I See You,” Luke Bryan

“Texas Was You,” Jason Aldean

“Springsteen,” Eric Church

“Distance,” Christina Perri featuring Jason Mraz

“Dancing Away with My Heart,” Lady Antebellum

“Hope You Get Lonely,” Cole Swindell

“Wheels Rollin’,” Jason Aldean

“Easy,” Rascal Flatts featuring Natasha Bedingfield

“Make You Miss Me,” Sam Hunt

“Come Over,” Kenny Chesney

“Love You Like That” Canaan Smith

“It Goes Like This,” Thomas Rhett

“I Walk the Line,” Johnny Cash

“Save Your Breath” Josh Dorr

“Let Her Go,” Passenger

“Mine Would Be You,” Blake Shelton

“More than Miles,” Brantley Gilbert

“Run Away with You,” Michael Ray

“Crash My Party,” Luke Bryan

“I Won’t Give Up,” Jana Kramer

“Simple Man,” Lynyrd Skynyrd

“Say You Do” Dierks Bentley

“Play It Again,” Luke Bryan

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