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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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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.
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4.5 Stars!
Holy Hell!!!
Alex Winslow is everything I imagine a rockstar being. He’s egotistical, he’s an a$$hole, and he’s entitled. But that’s just the exterior to Alex Winslow. Way..way…down deep there is a boy who wants to be loved and wanted, but doesn’t know how to accept those emotions.
After two trips to rehab for a cocaine addiction, Alex Winslow is not to be trusted. Enter Indigo his new hanny (Hot Nanny). Indie is unlike any woman Alex has ever met. She’s pure and innocent without a single malicious bone in her body. Alex is dead set on tainting all of that good but Indie has other ideas, she’s going to resist him and his rockstar charm, because she needs this job to support her brother, his wife, and her nephew.
Being honest, This novel was really long but with a complex character like Alex, I understand why. Alex extremely pissed me off at the beginning, but the more I read his point of view and got that inside look into his thought process, my rage towards him turned into sympathy and sadness. Deep inside he’s just a boy who’s scared to move on from the one thing he thought would last forever (Fallon). My heart legit broke for him.
Indigo is a special character. In a way she’s playing the part of a free spirit with her hipster hair and her handmade clothes, Internally though, she’s a free spirit chained to her home by her brother and the horrible accident that took her parents away and ruined not only her future but her life. Indie’s strength is something to be talked about. She is the ultimate for putting up with Alex’s bullshit along with dealing with her home life bullshit all at the same time.
Alex and Indigo together had my heart pounding in my chest. I loved the back and forth endless banter between the two. I loved Indie’s patience toward Alex and Alex’s impatience towards Indie.
There are so many damn twists in this novel, it had my head spinning. Some twists I saw coming and others I had predicted.
Overall, Midnight Blue by L.J. Shen blew me away! I loved the complexity, the romance, and the enemies to lovers vibe. This is a novel that I highly recommend to all romance readers.
Peace Love and Happy Reading,
I normally stay away from contemporary romances involving rock stars or any musicians BUT I my have to make and exception in this case!