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Visual-Kei Rock Star
Love doesn’t always appear in convenient forms, cultures, or times we would like them to. But when it happen do we cast them aside because of others may think? What if that chance never comes again?
When her tears save him from a certain death...he begins to live for her. This is the making of a Visual-Kei Rock Star...
Ambitious African American Sadie Bank has one desire—to become the best professional dancer and choreographer in her field. But sometimes destiny has other plans...
Japanese music protégé Subaru Chouda was born a beautiful and gifted child with a musical soul too sensitive for the life he was born into. The youngest son of a troubled promiscuous mother and a forced absentee father spirals him into a deep dark depression that nearly steals him from this earth until...Sadie.
Visual-Kei Rock Star is a tale that expands a decade. Over this expansion of time these two most unlikely to be friends become lovers drawn together by a force stronger than age or racial differences
When her tears save him from a certain death...he begins to live for her. This is the making of a Visual-Kei Rock Star...
Ambitious African American Sadie Bank has one desire—to become the best professional dancer and choreographer in her field. But sometimes destiny has other plans...
Japanese music protégé Subaru Chouda was born a beautiful and gifted child with a musical soul too sensitive for the life he was born into. The youngest son of a troubled promiscuous mother and a forced absentee father spirals him into a deep dark depression that nearly steals him from this earth until...Sadie.
Visual-Kei Rock Star is a tale that expands a decade. Over this expansion of time these two most unlikely to be friends become lovers drawn together by a force stronger than age or racial differences
368 pages, ebook and paperback option
First published September 19, 2010
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Shiree McCarver
28 books119 followersAlabama native Shiree McCarver is a freelance writer, poet and singer-lyricist. Writer of Interracial tales of romance in historical and contemporary settings, Ms. McCarver has written over eight novels. Her scope ranges from the Elizabethan period to modern day Tokyo. Ms. McCarver is quickly becoming best known for utilizing Asian males in romantic leading roles along with realistic less then perfect heroines. Her stories rips and repairs your heart like no other.
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October 8, 2010
Shiree McCarver is one of those authors whom, to borrow from Forrest Gump, is like a box of chocolates. One never knows what they're going to get when they crack open one of her novels.
I am a huge fan of the interracial romance/erotica genre and frankly I think that everyone else should be too (LOL). I mean isn't the "flaxen-haired wench and virile viking" kind of passe? Of course my favorite pairing is black women with men of varying races, but my big favorite is black women with asian men and Ms. McCarver delivers big time with her latest entry in her Musicians in Love series--Visual-Kei Rock Star.
A quick lesson here: Think of Visual-Kei as the Japanese version of glam rock and then pump it up on steroids. But don't let the drop-dead gorgeous androgyne looks fool you, VK rockers scream, shred and pound the skins with the best of them. One of my favorite guitarists, Hizaki from Versailles Philharmonic Quintet, decks in a flowing, rococo-style gown with blonde ringlets and can play circles around some of the best axe-men out there!
Visual Kei Rock Star is the highly emotional love story of Sadie Banks, a highly successful dancer/choreograper and Subaru Chouda, a muscial prodigy and lead guitarist/songwriter for a Japanese pop band. Sadie's ten years older than Subu, but the two of them have been friends for years. Time and tragedy have shaped them into adults who are emotionally wounded and emotionally immature, but hide their pain behind their success.
When they meet up again, Subu's a man in the midst of a crisis. He believes himself to be in love with the sexually-charged Riya, who's also the leader of the band. Riya keeps him on tenterhooks, needing both his incredible songwriting skills and his near-slavish devotion to her and she's willing to do anything to keep all that pent-up frustration on her alone. Subu thinks her treating him like child has to do with his lack of bedroom skills--he's a virgin--and he's determined to end that state of affairs once and for all.
Enter Sadie--a woman he'd been fantasizing about for years and now that he's a full-grown man, wants her to be his instructor in the arts of love. And Sadie, though she's used to seeing Subu as that quiet and withdrawn young boy, realizes uncomfortably that, in spite of his feminine features and slender but sculpted body, she wants him too and she feels guilty about it. However, it doesn't take the persistent Subu long to convince Sadie that she's the one he wants, but when love strikes them both, one is ready to embrace it head-on, the other is still unsure. Sadie loves Subu, but wants him to fulfill his destiny to front his own band, wrote his own music and just basically be the boss. Subu wants his dream and he wants Sadie too. The conflict comes to a head with an act of betrayal that could easily destroy them...
Yes Virginia, there are indeed love scenes in this novel and what makes them memorable is that the hero isn't a man-slut, but that doesn't detract from his masculinity one iota. Subu's an eager student and while there's steamy heat, there's also laughter and sigh-worthy moments and few authors dare to make the reader crack a chuckle while they're warming their insides.
What I truly enjoy about McCarver's Asian heroes is that she doesn't fall back on lame stereotypes. There are no geeky nerds or chop-socky types. She doesn't fetishize them, but writes beautiful, talented and proud men who find and keep the women they love. She also has a deep respect of the cultures she writes about and if anything, reading Visual Kei Rock Star might generate interest in this style of music (which I have been a huge fan of for years).
Visual Kei Rock Star is full of twists and turns, happiness and sorrow and characters who are so vivid that when they anger you, you want to smack them. These are not perfect people--Sadie and Subu and many of the others around them are both scarred and scared.
I am a huge fan of the interracial romance/erotica genre and frankly I think that everyone else should be too (LOL). I mean isn't the "flaxen-haired wench and virile viking" kind of passe? Of course my favorite pairing is black women with men of varying races, but my big favorite is black women with asian men and Ms. McCarver delivers big time with her latest entry in her Musicians in Love series--Visual-Kei Rock Star.
A quick lesson here: Think of Visual-Kei as the Japanese version of glam rock and then pump it up on steroids. But don't let the drop-dead gorgeous androgyne looks fool you, VK rockers scream, shred and pound the skins with the best of them. One of my favorite guitarists, Hizaki from Versailles Philharmonic Quintet, decks in a flowing, rococo-style gown with blonde ringlets and can play circles around some of the best axe-men out there!
Visual Kei Rock Star is the highly emotional love story of Sadie Banks, a highly successful dancer/choreograper and Subaru Chouda, a muscial prodigy and lead guitarist/songwriter for a Japanese pop band. Sadie's ten years older than Subu, but the two of them have been friends for years. Time and tragedy have shaped them into adults who are emotionally wounded and emotionally immature, but hide their pain behind their success.
When they meet up again, Subu's a man in the midst of a crisis. He believes himself to be in love with the sexually-charged Riya, who's also the leader of the band. Riya keeps him on tenterhooks, needing both his incredible songwriting skills and his near-slavish devotion to her and she's willing to do anything to keep all that pent-up frustration on her alone. Subu thinks her treating him like child has to do with his lack of bedroom skills--he's a virgin--and he's determined to end that state of affairs once and for all.
Enter Sadie--a woman he'd been fantasizing about for years and now that he's a full-grown man, wants her to be his instructor in the arts of love. And Sadie, though she's used to seeing Subu as that quiet and withdrawn young boy, realizes uncomfortably that, in spite of his feminine features and slender but sculpted body, she wants him too and she feels guilty about it. However, it doesn't take the persistent Subu long to convince Sadie that she's the one he wants, but when love strikes them both, one is ready to embrace it head-on, the other is still unsure. Sadie loves Subu, but wants him to fulfill his destiny to front his own band, wrote his own music and just basically be the boss. Subu wants his dream and he wants Sadie too. The conflict comes to a head with an act of betrayal that could easily destroy them...
Yes Virginia, there are indeed love scenes in this novel and what makes them memorable is that the hero isn't a man-slut, but that doesn't detract from his masculinity one iota. Subu's an eager student and while there's steamy heat, there's also laughter and sigh-worthy moments and few authors dare to make the reader crack a chuckle while they're warming their insides.
What I truly enjoy about McCarver's Asian heroes is that she doesn't fall back on lame stereotypes. There are no geeky nerds or chop-socky types. She doesn't fetishize them, but writes beautiful, talented and proud men who find and keep the women they love. She also has a deep respect of the cultures she writes about and if anything, reading Visual Kei Rock Star might generate interest in this style of music (which I have been a huge fan of for years).
Visual Kei Rock Star is full of twists and turns, happiness and sorrow and characters who are so vivid that when they anger you, you want to smack them. These are not perfect people--Sadie and Subu and many of the others around them are both scarred and scared.
July 11, 2012
I just finished reading Visual-Kei Rock Star, and I absolutely loved it! I tend to shy away from romance novels where the hero is a virgin, or the heroine is somewhat older, but I'm so glad I gave this one a chance. I would've truly missed out a great romance novel if I hadn't stepped outside of my comfort zone. The romance between Sadie and Subaru, was funny, touching, emotional, and erotic all at once. I don't want to give away too much of the story because I want everyone to keep an open mind and read Sadie and Subaru's story, but to see the way these characters changed from the beginning to end of the story was awesome. Also, I love asian men, but I'm not familiar with the Japanese glam rock genre, but my interest is definitely peaked; if anyone has any recommendations, please don't hesitate to share.
October 8, 2011
The beginning of the story is great but I am at the part where the couple start to have problems and it is upsetting me because Sadie knows the deal with Marshall but she still wants the part. I want to choke her. All in all the book was good. Without conflict where would we be. There aren't many interracial romances written about black women and Asian men! I am thankful for these stories
March 16, 2023
I will simply say even for the time the use of Asian eyes be descriptive pretty, uh, offensive, no?
December 30, 2017
Oh my this was such an awesome read. L loved Subus journey from boy to manhood. The inbetween wasn’t bad either, at times I didn’t know wether to cry/scream or laugh from the shear enjoyment of the characters Sadie and Subu portrayed. They had me rooting for them from jump and Subu brought a smile to my face with the humor/nativity he displayed but the thing that stood out to me the most was his transitioning from boy to manhood Subu was single minded in his love for Sadie and he never lost focus on that even when they weren’t by each other’s side. All I say is well done Ms. Shiree.
July 29, 2014
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