This review is from 2016 and is kept here for reference. Titles, prices and availability may have changed.
Nalini Singh
Book ArchiveContemporaryNew AdultFire
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.
I do love a good friends-to-lovers story, and this one is all about the friendship. We met Kit in book 1, but we really don’t find out why her and Noah had a falling out until this book. The book is all about Noah redeeming himself in Kit’s eyes, earning back her trust and friendship, so if you want the fast romance and sexy times, this book is not for you. We get a slow burn romance, a foundation of friendship and overcoming past demons . . . some worse than others. I think one of my favorite parts of the story was how Kit realized Noah needed something special to remain with her at night, and she changed her personal garden to enable him. *swoon*
Plus, we get to see the rest of the band and how their romances are still in the stratosphere.
Note: There is no cheating. I know that’s a hard limit for a lot of readers, so you are safe.
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