Review: Breathtaking, beautiful, sexy...the trifecta!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
I knew from the moment I started this read that this was going to be one of those books that got to me.  Chloe sits watching her best friend, the boy who knew her inside and out, about to become something so much bigger than just “her Noah”, and I was a goner!  The concept here was simple, but something I hadn’t come across with all of these stories about rock stars and the woman they love.  It combines the perfect elements that make us swoon, with the modernized update of a reality show being the start of everything.  Chloe’s best friend Noah, who’s always been an insanely talented singer, enters in a contest and suddenly takes off as an artist.  We get to see not only the present, where she’s coming to grips with her feelings, but also all of the beautiful moments they shared that led up to them being a couple that I will never forget.Noah and Chloe were one of those really complicated love stories.  Their past was full of the typical ups and downs that childhood friends deal with, but there was also that day, the moment that changed everything.  The day Chloe needed him in order to forget and get past the sorrow that was consuming her, and Noah was there as more than just her shoulder to lean on. And ooooh my was he ever there for her, in a scene that had me fanning myself and wishing for my own version of Noah!!  But I’m getting ahead of myself now, because there was a lot of denial going on before Chloe or Noah would ever fully come to grips with just how much that day meant to both of them.  And that’s how we really got to know these amazing characters, through Noah’s rise to fame as Chloe watched, and how they both came to grips with what not being together was doing to them.  Every moment, from Chloe’s attempts to rid Noah from her mind to the brainless women in his life because he couldn’t have the one he loved, was like a shot to the heart because I just wanted them to get their chance.Just thinking about Noah and Chloe’s journey makes my heart race, and I guarantee you this will be one that stays with you.  Every moment, from the most seemingly insignificant reference to their goofy childhood Peter Pan play to their heart-wrenching declarations, was just so achingly sweet that my heart was hurting for these two.  I have to hand it to Becky Wicks, because her writing was absolutely beautiful as she took her characters through the silly “oh that is so stinkin’ cute!” moments as children to the “holy crap my panties just caught on fire!” moments when they were finally giving in to the feelings that had ensnared them over their years together.  We face Chloe’s doubts and insecurities over losing her best friend if they were to become more, and Noah’s feelings of devotion but with the uncertainty of what his feelings will mean to the girl he’s always put first in his life and his heart. Gah! I absolutely love these two!!There were countless beautiful moments in this story that just made me melt, right up to the very last sentence that brought tears to my eyes.  Chloe and Noah shared one of those mesmerizing and breathtaking love stories that I just love to get lost in, and I never wanted to pull myself away from it.  Becky Wicks will leave you smiling, crying, and wishing that you had a childhood BFF that could come even close to being for you what Noah was for Chloe!Quotes:My parents came looking for me twenty minutes later, but by then he’d taught me the C chord and Noah Lockton had strummed his way irrevocably into my heart. ~Loc 105I remember the walls closing in, the heat of the summer on his skin, the way his shirt was open like a tent around me as he leaned over my body.  My sundress was rising around my thighs.  I was screaming inside for him to kiss me, but at the same time I knew he shouldn’t.  We weren’t Peter and Wendy, we were Noah and Chloe.  We were best friends, forever.  We were everything. ~Loc 958I watched her from the bed and wrote a song in my head about how she lit up every time the lightning struck, and when she climbed in beside me she was wriggling under my skin as much as the covers.  Chloe became the lightning then, for me at least, lighting up every room.  And so began the storm in my head.  ~Loc 1743‘I see it in Noah, the way he looks at you.  Chloe, I’ve seen that look in a man’s eyes.  It’s more than desire for your body.  It’s the secret world you’ve built together in spite of all of this – that’s what he can’t lose.  You’re his normality.  You’re a part of him, and he is a part of you.  That’s what makes this frightening, but that’s what makes it right. ~Loc 2672