Review: Rock Her by Rachel Cross

 

 

Rock Her by Rachel Cross

Publication Date: June 17th 2013

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About the book: She’s a small town nurse who had to grow up fast. He’s rock music’s most infamous guitarist. When a day at the beach turns life or death, their worlds collide, and no one will ever be the same.

Kate Gibson’s life has been all about family. She spent her high school years taking care of her dying mother, and her college years raising her younger sister.

Alec Sawyer’s past was an excess of everything: drugs, parties, rock, sex, and money. His downfall had been long, spectacular, and public.

Thrown together by fate and the media, Kate and Alec find themselves falling in love. But dating in the spotlight has its downside, and some secrets are better left in the dark.

My Thoughts:
Rock Her was an exciting and quick read full of suspense, but most notably a sweet romance.

Twenty-five year old Kate has put her romantic life on hold for the most part.  She had to step in as mother and provider to her eleven year old sister at the very young age of eighteen when her mother dies.  Her father is a real piece of work (certainly a piece of something!) and so she is basically on her own with Emma, her sister.  This makes romance and boyfriends the least of her worries through the years.  But with Emma off to college, her life is open to new possibilities.  Performing a heroic rescue puts Kate right into the path of Alec Sawyer and he quickly disrupts her life in both good and bad ways.   

Alec Sawyer was part of a hugely famous rock band, and lived life on the edge with drugs, alcohol and women, until one of his band mates overdoses.  Real life and consequences smack him in the face waking him up to the big picture.  Now ten years sober, he stays out of the lime light and lives a quite life in the little town of Cielito.   That is until Kate stumbles into his life and gives it a little shake.

It’s fun to read about reluctant lovers slowly losing their battle against falling in love. Kate and Alec have some emotional hurdles to get over, but nothing too frustrating or drawn out. Their attraction is not easy to ignore.  Every time they're around each other, fires ignite!  Kate is sweet and innocent, but also smart, and accomplished, putting herself through nursing school.  If anyone deserved an exciting lusty romance, that would be Kate!! She gets that and more from Alec.  He’s quite a bit older at thirty-eight, and has the experience to prove it! Oh my….Even with all his experience Alecs’s surprised by how much Kate affects him:

“his feelings were impossible to ignore. This was different.  She was different. He racked his brain, trying to remember if he’d ever felt this tender affection and wonder for another soul.  It was like being stripped bare.”

Besides the romance, there is excitement and danger that make you want to read through to see how things turn out. There is some definite creep factor with a stalker and a criminal father!

I have to say, I was disappointed with both Kate and Alec in a couple of spots; Kate for being a pushover with Alec, and Alec for being a jerk. Emma, Kate’s sister was very annoying thorough most of this read, and I really wanted to give her a good smack for being so selfish. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed this addictive and sexy read!

 

 

4 Suns

 



 

 



A copy was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

 

About the aurthor:

Fueled by black jelly-beans and Pinot noir– never together–Rachel Cross writes sexy, sweet contemporary romance. She lives by the beach in California with her surfer-dude/helicopter pilot husband and two daughters. Before becoming a romance author she was a professional firefighter, paramedic, clinical research manager, small business owner and Weekly World News tabloid ‘model’.

Rachel grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C with three sisters who, like her, were all voracious readers. Much to her mother’s chagrin, Rachel discovered Barbara Cartland and Harlequin Romance as a teen and never went back to young adult books.

A portion of the earnings from Rachel’s debut novel — ROCK HER – will be donated to her local Hospice. Thank you for your purchase and contributing to the care and support of families facing life-limiting illnesses.  Connect with Rachel on her:

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