Backstage Pass chapters 13 & 14
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P: 7/15/26 M: 7/22/26
Chapter 13
“You know this bedroom is mine as soon as I collect Myrna from the airport.”
I would ask why this famous rock group can’t get enough hotel rooms for all of them to have their private space. But then that would be biting into GROUP SEX TIME. At this point, the only thing that I’m actively wishing for is a full-on bisexual orgy. Either shit or get off the pot, author.
If necessary, he’d drive the fucking bus to the airport.
Chapter 13 summary: I hope you’re hungry… FOR NOTHING. Basically three pages of the band members faffing about. Plot? What plot? One of them is gay (or at least bisexual?) and is with a man right now. If each book of this series is with a different member of the band falling in love, I hope that his story is a gay awakening one where he ends up with another guy. Brian is mainly anxious to get to the airport and pick Myrna up.
Chapter 14
Chapter 14
As if to make up for the lack of literally anything in chapter 13, chapter 14 is 21 fucking pages long. Why. Why would you do it like this?
She just needed a famous rock band to follow around for three months. Would Sinners be willing to let her tour with them? It wouldn’t hurt to ask. It probably would hurt if the band refused her request.
In a real life situation, it would be laughable to think that a band famous for fucking and dumping their groupies would want her tagging along to study them. But this is the author’s wish fulfilment novel! Anything is possible! If a unicorn doesn’t show up and whisk Myrna and Brian off into the sunset by the end of the book, I’m going to be disappointed.
The guy in the next stall echoed Brian’s groan and let a loud fart rip in the toilet. Myrna covered her mouth with her hand, trying to hold in her laughter. Another groan, followed by splashes and then… the most horrendous smell. Myrna gagged.
I had to read this and so do you. Imagine being a writer. You can actively choose to write literally anything. Giraffe nurse! Now you are cursed to think about a giraffe in a nurse’s outfit! And yet, the author ACTIVELY CHOSE TO WRITE THIS.
She supposed she could tolerate being around this guy and his band mates for three months. Assuming they wanted her along for the ride.
Chapter 14 summary: On the way out to Portland, Myrna opens up the mail that the department secretary had handed her before she left. One of them is more grant money, which means that Myrna can follow the band around under the guise of “research”. Ugh. But also, I don’t know what I was expecting. When they’re reunited, Brian drags Myrna into the airport restroom, where they start doing it in one of the stalls. Yes, we’re also subjected to a random guy taking a dump in the stall next to them. Again, if I had to think about this, so do you. They ride Brian’s Harley back to the hotel, where the narration spends a lot of time with them faffing about. I don’t really give a hoot about any of this. Can we please get back to the banging? It’s at least at a baseline of acceptable. Anything that happens with the band seriously makes me feel like my IQ points are tanking. Anyway, they go into the singular bedroom, where they continue to bang. At one point, Brian half-jokingly says that he wants to marry her. She briefly tells him that she was married before, but it didn’t end well, and she has no intention of getting married ever again. Full stop. They continue banging. Say what you will about why this chapter was 21 pages, but at least a good chunk of it was sex.
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