With a name like Kate Rockland (frequent contributor to Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy, and the New York Times style section), it's only fitting that this author’s first-time novel deals with a rock star theme.

Falling Is Like This follows the journey of 23-year-old Harper Rostov, a tabloid columnist who leaves her job and her stable boyfriend to pursue her dream of becoming a music journalist. But before she can leave New York to move back in with her parents in New Jersey, she runs into Nick: a certified punk rock god and her longtime crush. Within the span of a day and one coffee shop date, the two begin a hasty weeklong romance that shows Harper ...