About WICKED WHITE
After his mother dies, rock star Ace White—lead singer of the red-hot band Wicked White—is done with the celebrity game. The phony people, the meaningless one-night stands: he doesn’t want any of it anymore. Quitting in the middle of a sold-out tour, Ace sets out to find some place—any place—where he can be alone.
Aspiring singer Iris Easton’s life has never been easy. First, her mother walked out on her when she was a kid. Now she’s buried in debt, weeks after losing her beloved grandmother. When a mysterious and sexy new guy moves in next door, Iris can’t help but be drawn to his soulful gaze. She can tell there’s something from his past haunting him—something he’s not telling her.
Just as Ace starts falling for Iris, the media go on a worldwide hunt to find the missing rocker. Will true love conquer all, or will the truth be the very thing that tears the couple apart?
Review
I’m a huge Michelle Valentine fan. She creates fantastic alpha heroes who find heroines who are not only willing to put up with all that comes with their professions, but they actually make everything better despite the angst and drama that surrounds them.
As soon as I read the premise of Wicked White, I wanted to dive in and find out everything there was about Ace White/Ace Johnson, and at the beginning of the story, I understood why the one thing that had always been his constant – music – didn’t even hold his passion anymore because it had been turned into nothing more than a product to make money. He lost himself and needed an escape to regroup and figure out what his next step would be not only in the music business but his life as well. And, I get that he felt he needed to run away and keep his identity a secret, but the way he handled a lot of things, especially his initial treatment of Iris, frustrated me and didn’t allow me to connect with him as a hero as much as I would have liked. He definitely makes up for his behavior but then it seems the extreme opposite of how he acted at the beginning that it gave me a bit of whiplash.
Iris is a kind and caring girl who is down to earth and real, which is exactly what Ace wants and needs, but he’s conflicted due to the timing of everything. Iris deals with the broody rocker the best she can and shows Ace that he can trust her, but in the media circus that surrounds Ace’s life and his reaction to a pivotal situation, things go awry for Iris and Ace and the fallout might be more than their burgeoning relationship can take.
Overall, I enjoyed reading Wicked White; it took a bit to get into it because it seemed to be a bit slow moving, but when things started heating up, the storyline drew me in. Even though I had a hard time understanding Ace, Michelle Valentine illustrated his motives well and allowed him to find a path that, while not ideal, would hopefully allow him to work everything out, but readers will have to wait to know for sure until the next book.
A complimentary copy was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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ABOUT MICHELLE A. VALENTINE
Michelle A. Valentine is a Central Ohio nurse turned New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of erotic and New Adult romance. Her love of hard-rock music, tattoos, and sexy musicians inspired her erotic BLACK FALCON series.
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