Johnny Be Good

by Paige Toon

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If your boss was the hottest rock star on the planet, would you mix business with pleasure?

Celebrity PA to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg Stiles's glam new life in sun-drenched LA is a whirlwind of showbiz parties and backstage passes. Cool, calm Christian, in town to write his famous friend's biography, helps keep Meg's feet firmly on the ground. But with Johnny's piercing green eyes and a body Brad Pitt would kill for, how long will it be before she's swept right off them again?

THE ONE WE FELL IN LOVE WITH was selected for the Zoella Book Club and Paige Toon's novels have been published across the world.

Praise for Paige Toon's novels:
'You'll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted' MARIAN KEYES
'I blubbed, I laughed and I fell in love... utterly heart-wrenching' GIOVANNA FLETCHER
'Devoured this in one sitting' COSMOPOLITAN
'An absorbing and emotional read' HEAT

• ISBN10: 1847390447
• ISBN13: 9781847390448
• Publish Date: 1 June 2008
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 11 June 2013
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Pocket Books
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 464
• Language: English

Reviews

[Emma (SCR)]

This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews This was my third Paige Toon book and it did not disappoint. With the beautiful setting and the luxurious lifestyle it was hard not to enjoy it.

Meg's predecessor was Daisy (from Chasing Daisy) who as we learn had fallen in love with Johnny and left when it all went wrong. So Meg promised herself that she would not fall in love with Johnny. With his charm and good looks,  the parties, the backstage passes, this is more difficult than she anticipated. Throw Christian Johnny's best friend into the mix and things become interesting.  I was torn throughout the whole book Johnny or Christian. Both were equally yummy and I can see why Meg has such a hard time.

Paige has a knack for making you never want to put her books down and I definitely could not stop turning the pages. A funny, sad, heart-breaking and romantic book.

[Leah]

After reading a review of Paige’s first novel, Lucy in the Sky, in Heat magazine I thought it sounded great so got hold of a copy and absolutely loved it so I couldn’t wait when I read about Paige’s second novel and I wasn’t disappointed…

Meg is off to Los Angeles to be CPA (Celebrity PA) to Johnny Jefferson, the hottest rockstar on the planet. She tells herself she will not fall for him but ultimately does. We follow her as she tries to figure out her feelings for Johnny and we constantly wonder if they will or if they won’t get together. Also in the mix is Christian, Johnny’s best friend and writer of his auto-biography, he helps to keep Meg’s feet on the ground.

It was a fabulous read and, if any of it is true, it shows a lot about what goes on in the world of a rockstar, the drinking and the drugs. Johnny was a good, but flawed, character and I kept hoping he would wake up and smell the coffee. All the minor characters were great; Davey, Santiago, Kitty, Rosa (I loved Rosa).

I think the only disappointment, and it is minor, was the ending. It left me feeling a bit… “huh?” I’m hopeful of a sequel, or even a mention in Chasing Daisy (the way we heard about Lucy from Lucy in the Sky in this one).

In the end I did love the book and the epilogue was only a minor minor disappointment. I whizzed throught the book and it was a real page-turner.

Rating: 5/5