Review: Just my Luck!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2013
I started reading the Hard Rock Roots Series by C.M. Stunich after Dirty Bookworm recommended the author to me.  She is a fan and her enthusiasm was contagious.  I am a sucker for hot rockers and hard rock music so this series was right up my alley.I started with Real Ugly and Get Bent.  Both depict the REAL UGLY side of rock n' roll.  Sex, drugs and rock n' roll (holds up devil's horns symbol on my right hand). It's not the glamorized version depicted in other rocker-type books.  It was raw, painful and realistic.  The fairytale life of a rocker that I had imagined was quickly bashed away and the reality replaced it.  I would say this series is more of a thriller/mystery romance.  Each book leaves you hanging and wanting the next book NOW!Tough Luck has twists and turn filled suspense.  Just when life couldn't get any more tragic for them another dip happens.  Ronnie McGuire, drummer for Indecency, is the subject of this book and his life is filled with ghosts.  Lola Saints is the drummer for Ice and Glass.  She has aspirations to be a rock god like her idols from Indecency. There is a price for fame but will it be too steep for her to pay at the cost of what is of real value to her...the love.If I was a smoker, I would have lifted my lighter several times during this story.  The lyrics of their music provided a poetic road map to the pain tattooed on their souls.  The storyline is the sour patch version of sweet tart romance novels I am used to reading.  It makes you pucker up but eventually you get used to it and relax.  This is what makes these stories unique.  They are not predictable.  I am not a worldly person and to be thrust into this world of the seedier side of the music business is uncomfortable, but in a strange way, very believable.  These are not people who live in houses with white picket fences with 2.5 kids and a dog.  These are people who live on the jagged edge.  Raw.  Real.  Passionate.  The passion for their music is as strong as any bond.  The fact they are living their dreams doesn't keep them from wanting it all, to be loved by someone unconditionally, selfishly, and eternally."Love is selfish. Period. End of Sentence."The next book in the series is Bad Day which is to be released December 1, 2013.  The cliffhangers of these books would have Thelma and Louise taking pause.  I can't wait for the conclusion of this series and to get my happily ever after that I hope these characters deserve after lives filled with so much pain.