06 October 2015

Blog Tour, Book Review, Giveaway | Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh (@NaliniSingh)

ROCK REDEMPTION (Rock Kiss Series#3) By Nalini Singh

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From New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh comes the next contemporary romance in the Rock Kiss series...

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.




My Thoughts: The prologue already broke my heart, what more the rest of the chapters? I started out with high expectations, and I was glad Nalini Singh delivered. I couldn’t put this book down, I love the ups and downs in Kit and Noah’s relationship. The question of will they or will they not was eating me up the whole time. I didn’t know whether I’d hate their friendship or love it. They were there for each other despite what happened in the past, one call, and the other one would come running.

But as for crossing that line between love and friendship? Noah can’t lose Kit. Even if it was killing her inside. Sometimes, he’d intentionally hurt her just to show he was a jerk and he doesn’t deserve her. Kit would have given her whole heart in a snap if Noah asks for it, problem is, she never thought he would.

 Noah has some secrets he wasn’t willing to share, especially not with Kit. He couldn’t handle it if she learned about it. I thought I had an idea what it was about, but imagine my surprise when it came out #jawdropping #omgmoments right there. It was music (and Kit and the band) that was keeping him sane. But nightmares still keeps on bothering him, and sleep was never a friend.

But when a media error allowed the two of them to finally be ‘together’ (even if it was for show), Kit realizes that this was her chance of being with Noah. As for Noah, even if he can’t give her what she wants, at least he was going to give her this and play a loving boyfriend to her. But what happens when the show begins to feel like something real?

It was a slow, agonizing wait for them to be together, but once they were (even it was just a sham), you can actually feel how they care about each other. The chemistry and sexual tension was always there, but Noah is too determined not to act on it. Both can’t take the risk anymore. Kit was protecting her heart, she couldn’t have Noah break it again. As for Noah, his past was a big hurdle.

You’ll love the characters, most especially Kit who survived without the help of her famous parents and is trying to make a name for herself. She’s a strong woman who withstood storms and rejections not just from audition but from Noah as well.

This was an amazing rollercoaster ride that will make you stick to the novel and never put this book down until you have finished it. It’s painful, sweet, romantic and steamy. It can break and melt hearts. This one is a great read, and on top of my recommendation list.

Fall in love with another rockstar in Nalini Singh’s Rock Redemption, her third installment in her Rock Kiss Series.

Recommended For: Loves rockstars, friends to lovers plot

Rating: 
Characters - 5
Plot - 5
Steam - 5 
 Cover - 5
Romance - 5 
Pacing - 5
Overall: 5

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Excerpt from ROCK REDEMPTION by
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.”

If you’d like to read the rest of this chapter, as well as the next, click this link: http://nalinisingh.com/books/rock-kiss-series/rock-redemption/



nalini bio.jpgNew 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 websiteSlave 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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Series Reading Order

Rock Addiction (Book One)  
Rock Kiss Series

Rock Courtship (bk 1.5) 
A Rock Kiss Novella

Rock Hard (Book Two) 
Rock Kiss Series

Rock Redemption (Book Three) 
Rock Kiss Series
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