Kit and Noah’s rock star romance is
finally here in the newest addition to Nalini Singh’s Rock Kiss Series!!
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Blurb
Kit Devigny
could have loved rock guitarist Noah St. John. Their friendship burned with the
promise of intense passion and searing tenderness…until the night Noah
deliberately shattered her heart.
Noah knows
he destroyed something precious the night he chose to betray Kit, but he’d
rather she hate him than learn his darkest secret. All he has left is his
music. It’s his saving grace, but it doesn’t silence the voices that keep him
up at night. Chasing oblivion through endless one-night-stands, he earns a few
hours’ sleep and his bad boy reputation.
When a media
error sees Noah and Kit dubbed the new “it” couple, Kit discovers her chance at
the role of a lifetime hinges on riding the media wave. Wanting—needing—to give
Kit this, even if he can’t give her everything, Noah agrees to play the adoring
boyfriend. Only the illusion is suddenly too real, too painful, too
beautiful…and it may be too late for the redemption of Noah St. John.
Nalini Singh
Kit groaned at the sound of her phone. Reaching out
blindly toward the nightstand, she hurled mental curses upon herself for
forgetting to turn it off so she could catch some uninterrupted sleep before
her four-a.m. makeup call.
It’d be fun and great for her
career, her agent had said when recommending Kit take the superhero flick.
Coming off two serious and emotionally wrenching projects, Kit had taken
Harper’s advice and jumped on board the high-budget, high-octane venture.
Unfortunately, Harper had forgotten to mention the four hours it would take to
put her into the head-to-toe makeup required for the role. Daily.
“What?” she snarled into the phone
without checking to see who it was.
“Hey, Katie.”
Every cell in her body snapped wide
awake. Lifting her eyelids, she just stared at the ceiling through gritty eyes.
Her heart thumped, her throat moving convulsively as she swallowed. She hated
that he could still do this to her, hated
it, but her visceral response to Noah wasn’t something she could stop. She
knew because she’d tried for the past two years and three months.
“Noah,” she said flatly. “Do you
know what time it is?”
“Two fifteen,” he answered.
Kit should’ve hung up. God, he’d hurt her. So much. But there was
something in his voice that had her sitting up. “Are you drunk?” One thing she
knew about Noah: no matter his bad-boy rep, he was never wasted. He might give a good indication of it, but look
closely and those dark gray eyes were always sober.
“Probably.” A silence, followed by,
“I just wanted to hear your voice. Sorry for waking you.”
“Wait,” she said when he would’ve
hung up. “Where are you?”
“Some dive.” He took a deep breath,
released it in a harsh exhale. “I’m sorry for being an asshole. I wanted to
tell you that. I don’t want to go without saying that.”
“Noah,” she said, a horrible feeling
in her stomach. “Where exactly are you?”
“The Blue Flamingo Inn off Hollywood
Boulevard. Far, far, far off.” He
laughed, and it held no humor. “It has a neon sign of a blue—surprise!—flamingo
that’s flashing right through my window. Looks like someone stole the
curtains.”
Having already grabbed her laptop,
which she’d left beside the bed after answering some e-mails before sleep
claimed her, she found the Blue Flamingo Inn. But Noah was already gone, having
said, “I love your voice, Kit,” in an oddly raw tone before hanging up.
He didn’t pick up when she called
back.
“Damn it! Damn it!” She shoved aside
the blanket under which she’d been buried, having turned the AC to ice-cold as
she usually did at night. Shivering, she tugged on a pair of jeans and an old
sweatshirt over the panties and tank top in which she’d gone to sleep.
Pulling her black hair into a rough
ponytail to keep it out of her eyes, she ran through the house, phone in one
pocket, credit card and driver’s license in the other. In the kitchen, she
grabbed her keys off the counter and shoved her feet into the tennis shoes by
the door that led to the garage.
She was in her car and on the way to
the motel three minutes after Noah had hung up, mouth dry and an ugliness in
her gut. “Please be okay, please be okay, please be okay,” she kept saying, the
mantra doing nothing to calm her down, but at least it kept her mind focused.
She wanted to call Molly and Fox, or
the others in the band, but no one was currently in the city. Schoolboy Choir
had completed the final show in the band’s hugely successful tour just over two
weeks earlier. Day after that, they’d all gone their separate ways to recharge
and regroup.
“Much as I love these guys,” David
had said with a grin that reached the dark gold of his eyes, “I’ve been looking
at their ugly mugs daily for months. We need to go blow off some steam
separately before we start snarling at each other.”
At the time, Kit had nodded in
understanding, having had that same experience while working on location for
long periods. Tonight, however, she wished the others were all here, not
scattered across the country, because something was very wrong with Noah.
“Noah doesn’t do drugs,” she told herself as
she drove as fast as she dared, not wanting to risk getting pulled over and
further delayed. “He isn’t the kind to—” She couldn’t say it, couldn’t even
think of Noah ending his life. “No,”
she said firmly, her hands white-knuckled on the steering wheel. “Noah isn’t
like that.”
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This is the first book I’ve read
by Nalini Singh and the first book I’ve read in the Rock Kiss series. I’m very
happy that I have the opportunity to share my thoughts on this story. While there is a lot that I like there are a
few concerns too.
First and foremost the writing
is excellent. For the most part, I
didn’t feel lost in the story at all. It
is obvious that there is more backstory for some characters but everything the
reader needs to know about Kit and Noah is within the pages of this book. I am a big fan of series when each book has
an ending but also promises more to come about the characters in future
books.
The main characters in this book
are Katherine (Kit) Divegny and Noah St John.
Kit is a strong character who is focused on her acting career. She is at the breakout point from TV to the big
screen. She is also friends with the
members in the band, Schoolboy Choir and she is in love with Noah St. John
their lead guitarist.
Noah St. John is the hot
guitarist in Schoolboy Choir. He is a
damaged soul and not very easy to understand.
He commands the stage but once he walks into the real world he doesn’t
know how to relate to people especially woman.
He uses women for sex for one night and then they are gone. To some it looks like the typical rock bad
boy syndrome but there is a torture soul in Noah.
For most of the book Noah is
pushing Kit away but he still wants to be friends. Unfortunately Kit suffers because she doesn’t
understand how he can hurt her so much. Eventually
Noah decides to help Kit with publicity by being with her in front of paparazzi
to help her get notice and, hopefully her dream role. As this ruse unfolds Kit and Noah’s
friendship begins to build again.
I really like these two
characters. I like the dual point of
view. Each voice feels real and gives
the reader an in depth look at the heart of each character. My only complaint is that the building of the
friendship feels like it takes a little too long at least for me. I found myself hoping that the next page is
going to show some walls collapse, a small kiss or something to move from
friendship to more but it didn’t happen as I hoped. For most of the book (about 50 percent) I
didn’t really feel the relationship was going anywhere and if that wasn’t bad
enough I couldn’t make all the reasons for this couple’s problems click in my
head.
Don’t get me wrong by the end it
does make sense it just took a little too long for me. I don’t want to put anyone off because it is
a good story and what didn’t feel right to me might make perfect sense to other
readers.
In summary, I adore the concept
and really like the characters. They are
multi-dimensional with many layers that are gradually peeled back to reveal
some serious pain underneath. The
beginning of the book is very good; the last thirty percent of the book is
outstanding. This is where all the real
page turning action happens. It is just
slow but not bad in the middle. Without
a doubt it is worth wading through the middle to get to some of the best couple
scenes. My recommendation is buy this
book, bring reading, put it down for a little while in the middle and then pick
it back up for a very rewarding ending. Enjoy!
4 STAMPS
The Rock Kiss Reading Order
Rock Addiction (Book One)
Rock Kiss Series
Rock Courtship (Book 1.5) A Rock Kiss
Novel:
Rock Hard (Book Two) Rock Kiss Series
Rock Redemption (Book Three) Rock
Kiss Series
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Author
Information
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the
Psy-Changeling, Guild Hunter, and Rock Kiss series Nalini Singh usually writes
about hot shapeshifters and dangerous angels. This time around, she decided to
write about a beautiful, charismatic guitarist with a dark past. If you’re
seeing a theme here, you’re not wrong.
Nalini
lives and works in beautiful New Zealand, and is passionate about writing. If
you’d like to explore her other books, you can find lots of excerpts on her website. Slave to Sensation is the
first book in the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the
first book in the Guild Hunter series. Also, don't forget to swing by the site
to check out the special behind-the-scenes
page for the Rock Kiss series,
complete with photos of many of the locations used in the books.
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