Review: Rocker Love
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
This heroine has a self-image problem.  She's overweight, and it consumes her waking hours.  She has met and fallen for a rock singer whose band is starting to get traction in the music world.  He has groupies, and he likes the fan scene -- he's friendly but not sleazy.  It's part of the job for him to meet the fans and go on the road with his band to perform; she gets that, but cannot get comfortable with it.  No matter how many tedious times the man tries to reassure her that her soft curves and giant caboose are just what he loves, she hugs her deep body image insecurities like a life raft in choppy seas.  It's awkward to read.  Like Dr. Phil says (over and over), people look the way they do by choice, and for a reason.  What is her reason -- that she fears change and wants to spend her life alone?  (it's unclear.). When the insecurities take over, she flees the poor man.  Then, days afterward, she calls him.  Repeat, repeat, repeat.  He gets frustrated.  What can he say or do to convince her that she is who he wants?  (Nothing -- it's her problem not his.). Will she make up her mind? Is misery, her late-shift waitress job, her studio apartment, bus riding and her broken down car her destiny?  It's a sad and occasionally less sad trilogy.