Summer of Irreverence -- THE ROCK STAR(The New York Artists Series)
Straight-laced, veterinary surgeon, Summer Wynters is ready to break the rules. And who better to break them with than the most irreverent of all men, mega rock star Malcolm Angel? With one last summer free from work obligations, Summer moves to New York City, and at the coaxing of her friend, pretends to be a model so she can spend one wild night with Malcolm.
Rock star, Malcolm Angel, tortured by a dark past, may be the poet laureate of romance, but he, like science-minded Summer, has never believed in romantic love. How could he? With his history, he doesn’t deserve to be loved.
When Summer’s honesty, kindness, and exuberance for life changes his perspective, the two discover they are in deeper than either dreamed possible. But when Malcolm discovers Summer’s been perpetuating a lie, will he forgive her? Even if forgiveness is possible, can a man immune to love teach someone else to believe in it?
MY REVIEW:
What a gut wrenching, powerful, and
inspiring book all rolled into one. This
is a book of new beginnings with several bumps along the way.
It opens with two childhood friends Summer
Wynters taking the summer for herself.
After being in college and veterinary school, to become a surgeon. She also just got out of a year and half
relationship with Dr. Brad her professor and future boss. But she was not only feeling stagnant in her life
but she was feeling unfulfilled in the bedroom.
Dr. Brad was a one-way kind of guy.
She wanted more. She wanted one night of passion maybe up
against the was at least. So going to
New York to hang out with her BFF Jeanette who is a top model for the summer
seemed like the perfect solution.
Especially, when Jeanette’s boyfriend Elijah is the manager for the
world’s hottest rock band out right now.
She asked her to score them backstage passes to a meet and greet and
leave the rest up to her. She wanted to
meet and bed Malcolm Angel. Yeah and her
and fifty million other women.
That is when Jeanette when into model mode
transforming the already beautiful, curvy and somewhat shorter Summer into a
model. Explaining that all Malcolm ever
bedded or dated if you wanted to call it that was models. So Jeanette spent a fortune on her and boy
Summer didn’t even know she could look that good. She was more of the no makeup ponytail kind
of girl especially being a vet.
Jeanette could not believe her ears though
when her little Summer was telling her what she wanted to do. Summer was not a one-night stand kinda
girl. So she explained how Malcolm used
and discarded girls nightly. But Sum
told Jean she knew what she was doing so Jean set it up for her. Jean glammed Sum up and told her that they
would be telling Malcolm that she is a model.
So expect to be taken to his hotel room after the meet and greet and
they have checked her ID. Sum said okay.
Malcolm Angel was getting ready to go on
stage when he was in the side wings looking out at the front row. He sees Jeanette, Elijah’s girl with this
beautiful woman who was laughing with her complete self with such abandon. Making her look completely gorgeous. He tried to shake it off because of what
happened to him almost 17 years ago that makes him feel so undeserving of love,
friends or pleasure. When he realizes he’s
smiling from watching her. He makes it
on stage he finds his eyes drifting to her.
He even winks at her. He has no
idea why it has never happened to him before.
Malcolm hates the feelings and reaction
that are happening in her presence. He
ends up pulling her on stage to sing to her then after the song asks to stay to
have dinner with him. Sum says, “Ok!” Jean backstage once again goes over the
ground rules of being with him. She
still agrees but the night goes awry so he ask her to brunch the next day.
See how these two walk the minefields of
their lives of secrets and lies. That
they have omitted to reveal to others and to themselves in order to deal with
their lives in a productive way. What
secrets are too painful to share with anyone else but these perfect soldiers of
their guarded hearts? Can they find love
or is really as they believe a myth sold to us by department stores and greet
cards?
I enjoyed the gut wrenching truths that
were shown through the secrets revealed from their pasts. Yet, when there were things to laugh about
there was no holding back they were just too funny. These characters were complex and real and
that made this book an enjoyable read. I
give this book 5++++ stars.
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