Book Review: Midnight Blue by L.J. Shen
- KA
- Jan 22, 2018
- 6 min read
Gah!!! Have you met Alex Winslow yet? You'll love him! Indie too. Come fall in love with these two. So, I got a little passionate with this review, I apologize for the language. Below you'll find links to several giveaways for kindle copies of the book - that's how much I love it.
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Midnight Blue
Author: LJ Shen
Release Date: January 18th
It should have been easy.
I needed the money. He needed a babysitter to keep him from snorting himself to death.
I was cherry-picked especially for him. Responsible. Optimistic. Warm. Innocent.
The worst part is that I should have known better.
Alex Winslow. British rock star. Serial heartbreaker. Casanova with whiskey eyes.
“Don’t get near the devil in a leather jacket. He’ll chew you up and spit you out.”
Sounds familiar? That’s because it was a headline in a tabloid the second time he got arrested.
Guess what? I didn’t listen.
I signed the contract.
World tour. Three months. Four Continents. One hundred shows.
My name is Indigo Bellamy, and I sold my soul to a tattooed god.
Problem was, my soul wasn’t enough for Alex Winslow. He ended up taking my body, too.
Then he took my heart.
Then he took my all.
Excerpt:
Nat’s words came back and haunted me like a bad haircut from the eighties. An irrational need to check the goods took over me. It wasn’t like he minded. According to the rumors, his dick had seen more cameras than Kendall Jenner. Slowly—so painfully slowly—my eyes drifted down his sinewy body. I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Whatever I had in mind, though, didn’t come close to the real thing. Thick, long but not atrocious. With thin veins running through its length.
“Nice view?” he groaned, tucking his junk back into his briefs. His profile was glorious. Strong jaw, pouty lips, eyes like sex…
My eyes snapped up when I realized he was talking to me. “I wasn’t…”
“Looking? Yes, you were. Next time take a picture. It lasts longer.” He rolled his zipper upward and flushed the toilet with the toe of his boot. He turned around and squirted soap into his palm, washing his hands almost violently—rubbing between each finger and scratching his knuckles like he wanted to shed his own skin. When he was done, he looked around for a towel.
I cleared my throat, scrambling to regain my wits. “Longer than the glimpse or longer than your performance?”
Casually—so unbearably casually—he wiped his wet hands over my purple dress. I gasped, moving sideways. It looked like he was about to open the door and get out, but before I had the chance to yell at him for using me as a human towel, he slammed me against the wall, bracing both his arms above my head and pinning me to my spot. I let out a shriek of surprise at the sudden proximity.
Alex Winslow is touching me. Willingly, my surprisingly pitiful brain squealed.
Heat rolled off his body, making my back arch and my breath catch in my throat.
“Let’s make one thing clear—I could fuck you to a point of numbness without even breaking a sweat if I wanted to. Now, careful, New Girl. If you don’t keep your distance from me, I think I just might.”
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Review
Rating:
Cover - 4.5 stars
Story - 5 stars
Overall - 5 stars
Content:
Emotion - 4.5
Angst - 4
Swooning - 5
Likeable Characters - 4.5
Steam - 5
Humour - 4
Alex Winslow is a rock star with a problem; he’s about to lose everything he’s worked for if he doesn’t kick his drug and drink habit. His team arrange for a personal assistant aka a babysitter to keep him clean during a three-month world tour, he’s already made six quit, he thinks this one will be no different, the thing is, Indigo Bellamy needs the money, desperately, so she’ll take whatever Alex can dish out. And when the attraction becomes too much, well, that’s when things get interesting. Join Alex and Indie as they embark on a whirlwind world tour and get closer each passing day. Can they overcome Alex’s past? And what happens when truths are revealed that could shock them down to their core and ruin everything they’ve built?
Holy Crap! L.J. Shen is trying to kill me. I’ve read (actually listened to) a couple of her books, and so I thought I was prepared. I. Was. Not. Vicious has just been kicked off his arsehole mantel. Alex is now firmly seated there, and he has no intention of moving. This is my favourite read of 2018 so far. It has everything I could have hoped for and more. This book gave me all the feels. It was written so beautifully. It felt very poetic. There were a few twists that had me sat there and just WOW, I did not see them coming, at all. I ALWAYS see them coming, what is this madness? If you like arsehole characters, this is the book for you. If you like your female characters with a backbone that takes no crap, this is the book for you. If you like books that make you feel, this is the book for you.
Alex and Indie are EVERYTHING! Their relationship was so beautiful, watching it build from nothing to something was an incredibly rewarding journey. One I loved so much that I cannot wait to do it again. At times I wanted to hug Alex, and at times I wanted to smack him in the head. He could be so sweet and then his arseholery would show. Then his vulnerability would surface again, and I’d feel for him. He’s the type of guy that you can’t help but swoon over but then you feel just a tiny bit guilty because, you know, females need to stick together and support each other, but yeah, he’s irresistible. I have a total girl crush on Indie from her first meeting with Alex I just fell in love with her. The way she didn’t back down. Go Girl! She’s a spitfire, but she is sweet with it. The type of person you’d want to be friends with. The build-up to them getting together was perfectly timed and paced brilliantly. The passion was so believable and once it happened… get that fire extinguisher ready, sheesh, smoking hot doesn’t even begin to describe it. There is some angst, I may have shed some tears (Dammit LJ), especially since some of those tears involved an inanimate object…I’m weird, deal with it. Once you read it, you’ll get it. I laughed, I cried, I swooned, and I hoped. Yep, all the feels and more.
Now I need to talk for a minute about the fact that Alex and his band are British. Yes, this requires its own paragraph, this is something that is a selling/ or non-selling point for me, being British and all. I often read books or listen to them, with British characters from non-British authors, and honestly, the characters don’t sound particularly British, they sound like an American’s interpretation of a Brit, in my opinion. Nothing wrong with that, I’ve enjoyed many a book with characters like that. However, this book? This book didn’t have that issue, from the first page Alex’s Britishness was evident but often subtle. The odd word here and there, references and such. It wasn’t just, let’s drink tea and say bloody, and bollocks. I’m not knocking authors that do that, but it was refreshing to become so engrossed in a book and the characters, and not get pulled out of the story to think ‘huh, we don’t all say or drink that’ at times, I actually forgot that L.J. Shen wasn’t born and bred here, and that is a mark of a fantastic writer.
I am so excited to find out who has been cast for the audiobook, and its release. I might have recovered from reading it by the time it is live.
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About LJ Shen:
L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.
Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.
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