Review: The Rock Star and the Sculptor Find Common Ground and Passionate Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2012
I chose this book because I thought the blurb sounded good and I was not disappointed.Megan is the full time art teacher at the St. Pat's parish school in her home neighborhood near Chicago.  She is a woman who carries on almost a shadow existence due to her past and everyone treats her as fragile and unapproachable to men because of being a childhood rape victim.  Christian is one of the St. Pat's kids who grew up and became a famous rockstar.  He comes home for the charity block concert every year with his band.  This year, Christian has some big decisions to make about his music career so he has also come home to think.  Then the day he is visiting Father Gregory on his tour of the school, he sees a beautiful woman with a student.  It's the same women that has caught his eye when he met her near his building and in the park where she was playing with her little girl.  He felt instant attraction and now he meets her.  Megan is equally taken by the tall handsome alumni that Father Gregory is showing around, but then is interrupted in the process of meeting him when her brother in law arrives to drop off her niece.  Suddenly, the man stiffens up and behaves funny even though he helps her with her niece and the bag when she walks home.  She discovers that he lives in her building.  He comes into her apartment and in the process of talking discovers that she is just babysitting.  Her niece is taken with Christian and on the spur of the moment he decides to accompany them to American Girl.From there, their relationship begins to blossom.  That is until Megan's sister interferes with snide accusations about Christian and drives a wedge between them.  Megan had no idea that Christian is a famous musician/singer and he is terrified to hurt her when he finds out about her past.  Can the attraction of seeming opposites and their past be an insurmountable obstacle?The plot was that of a sweet, tender romance that was packed with passion.  I loved seeing them work through things even if I felt the tension each time something new came up threatening to separate them.  The pace is nice and though steady did not drag for me.The characters were wonderful to get to know.  I loved Christian and Megan. There was so much to them.  There was such a difference between the warm, openness of his family and the closed almost dead feeling of her family.  I wanted to smack Megan's older sister Hilary upside the head on a few occasions even though she meant well.It was a good read that I can recommend.