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Rock 'N' Roll Melancholy
Meet Sadie: A 20-something orphan, who loves old 90’s Grunge music, and loves living in Seattle, but she has addictions and losses a mile long under her belt. She lives her life as a recluse, until she meets the singer of her favorite local band “Lipstick and Codeine” Aries Codeine and they fall into a very intense and very real love. The thing is, they both found out something that will make or break them. Can they survive the taboo truth? Or will their quick rise to fame and addiction get them first? With light erotic undertones and a very dark and raw life style, these two have found their other half in each other, or have they found the very person that will push them further down their own self destructive spiral
WARNING! Contains strong sex, drugs, and suicidal subject matter.
WARNING! Contains strong sex, drugs, and suicidal subject matter.
116 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 4, 2014
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September 24, 2019
I blew through this book in just a couple of days. I kind of knew already I was going to love it, because it deals with characters living in Seattle who are involved in the music scene and features themes about addiction and an overall dark tone, but I really had no idea that I was going to binge read the whole thing in 48 hours. But from the moment I met the main character, Sadie, I could not put it down. Sadie could have been me 15 years ago. Full of pain and seriously depressed, just trying to get by and survive in rainy Seattle as best she can with alcohol, trying to stay off the drugs. Sadie’s friends also could have been drawn from my real-life cast of people. Even the places they hung out were real-life places that I hung out at with my real-life friends, and the details were SPOT ON.
However, besides the awesome ride through nostalgia I got from the novel, the story itself was just really good. The book started out with a lot of great momentum, I immediately wanted to know more about Sadie and why she was so messed up, and that momentum only increased with every chapter. I had this ever-growing sense of doom and trepidation about how everything was going to turn out. The characters themselves mention the story of Jim Morrison and his girlfriend, Pam, a few times, and I definitely saw how Sadie’s story with her boyfriend mirrored that so elegantly. The themes were EXCELLENTLY done. There was this spiral into darkness that felt so inevitable, so brutal and intense, but also just so beautiful. It’s not going to be a book for everyone, because it is so dark, but for those of us who love the romance of rock stars with a death wish and addicts who can’t bear to be parted from their one true love of addiction, this book will become a fast favorite and be read multiple times.
The last thing I’ll say is that I freaking LOVED the ending. It was a bold choice by the author, make no mistake, but the ending is just one of the things that separates this book, in my opinion, from many others. This novel is true art and one of the ways you can see that is in the choice of the ending by the author. Again, not every reader is going to like the ending, or even agree with it, but it is actually the perfect ending for the story, in my opinion.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves dark fiction, addiction lit, stories about rock stars, fiction that deals with depression and mental health issues, and romance.
However, besides the awesome ride through nostalgia I got from the novel, the story itself was just really good. The book started out with a lot of great momentum, I immediately wanted to know more about Sadie and why she was so messed up, and that momentum only increased with every chapter. I had this ever-growing sense of doom and trepidation about how everything was going to turn out. The characters themselves mention the story of Jim Morrison and his girlfriend, Pam, a few times, and I definitely saw how Sadie’s story with her boyfriend mirrored that so elegantly. The themes were EXCELLENTLY done. There was this spiral into darkness that felt so inevitable, so brutal and intense, but also just so beautiful. It’s not going to be a book for everyone, because it is so dark, but for those of us who love the romance of rock stars with a death wish and addicts who can’t bear to be parted from their one true love of addiction, this book will become a fast favorite and be read multiple times.
The last thing I’ll say is that I freaking LOVED the ending. It was a bold choice by the author, make no mistake, but the ending is just one of the things that separates this book, in my opinion, from many others. This novel is true art and one of the ways you can see that is in the choice of the ending by the author. Again, not every reader is going to like the ending, or even agree with it, but it is actually the perfect ending for the story, in my opinion.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves dark fiction, addiction lit, stories about rock stars, fiction that deals with depression and mental health issues, and romance.
September 18, 2014
Heart breaking, but such a good read! The characters go through a great deal of pain together and deal with it the only way they know how. There is no happy ending. This feels more real and the author does an amazing job portraying addiction, love, loss and the high paced life of rock n roll.
September 26, 2015
All writers start somewhere, and don't always produce their best work the first time out. But with the help of a good editor and critics who are not afraid of hurting feelings they often hone their skills into a finer work. This suffers from several ailments, not least of all the people who are doing no favors to Acrylic by applauding her work here. This is a terrible book. From the immature tone to the poor grammar and flailing handle on vocabulary, it is sincerely terrible.
One of my favorite things about my Kindle is that I can read guilty pleasure books. As a buffer between heavier topics, I enjoy books with a romance and music theme. I'm a music lover myself, and the 'fan fiction' of talented musician falling head over heels for some random girl in the crowd is a tactic I can get on board with. I've seen it executed with great effect by other writers; here it is a sad, tired mockery of the music world written with an infantile grasp of plot.
I'm not sure where to start with this, because I see that rather than provide effective feedback, thus far all that has been offered is false praise. So let's start with the basics:
1. Mechanics: The constant misuse of vocabulary was beyond distracting. The intent was clear, but the verbiage was wrong. An 'overweight smile' for instance, being used in the place of a phrase like 'wide smile'. The grammar was consistently poor, with the word super being used to describe things frequently. She was super small. It was super fast. However, the singular most distracting failure was the use of semicolons. They were used so frequently and incorrectly that I took to counting them. There were pages where nary a paragraph went by without accompaniment by a semicolon.
2. Tone: The tone in this book can most kindly be described as prepubescent. It reads like a 10 year old girl writing about romance, drug use, and music. For example:
"Beth's Cafe is a pretty cool place. They have paper and crayons at the table so you can draw and hang it on the wall; it's fun! My mom told me it was where all the alternative cool kids hung out at."
The dialogue was flat, repetitive, and unimaginative. Every place characters visited was a Cafe of some sort, and drug use was glamorized and trivialized simultaneously. The language lacked any rhythm, such a critical element in a book centered in music. Just absolute balderdash.
3. Plot: What is attempted is a gritty story of love and rock and roll. What happens is a lackluster pantomime of a cliche. I can't begin to describe the plot as anything greater than a tired story of two people who are miserable in their own right and with one and other. There is hardly a plot at all. It's simply a series of half-formed ideas that were strung together and spat out.
The entire book is underdeveloped to a point of near illiteracy. It shows why there continues to be merit in publishing, where a piece goes through the rigorous test of being picked up by a publisher, edited, and evaluated before releasing it to the public. Vanity publishing has none of the benefits of the calculated criticism that comes with releasing a book. There is clear passion here, but it lacks any direction or refinement.
One of my favorite things about my Kindle is that I can read guilty pleasure books. As a buffer between heavier topics, I enjoy books with a romance and music theme. I'm a music lover myself, and the 'fan fiction' of talented musician falling head over heels for some random girl in the crowd is a tactic I can get on board with. I've seen it executed with great effect by other writers; here it is a sad, tired mockery of the music world written with an infantile grasp of plot.
I'm not sure where to start with this, because I see that rather than provide effective feedback, thus far all that has been offered is false praise. So let's start with the basics:
1. Mechanics: The constant misuse of vocabulary was beyond distracting. The intent was clear, but the verbiage was wrong. An 'overweight smile' for instance, being used in the place of a phrase like 'wide smile'. The grammar was consistently poor, with the word super being used to describe things frequently. She was super small. It was super fast. However, the singular most distracting failure was the use of semicolons. They were used so frequently and incorrectly that I took to counting them. There were pages where nary a paragraph went by without accompaniment by a semicolon.
2. Tone: The tone in this book can most kindly be described as prepubescent. It reads like a 10 year old girl writing about romance, drug use, and music. For example:
"Beth's Cafe is a pretty cool place. They have paper and crayons at the table so you can draw and hang it on the wall; it's fun! My mom told me it was where all the alternative cool kids hung out at."
The dialogue was flat, repetitive, and unimaginative. Every place characters visited was a Cafe of some sort, and drug use was glamorized and trivialized simultaneously. The language lacked any rhythm, such a critical element in a book centered in music. Just absolute balderdash.
3. Plot: What is attempted is a gritty story of love and rock and roll. What happens is a lackluster pantomime of a cliche. I can't begin to describe the plot as anything greater than a tired story of two people who are miserable in their own right and with one and other. There is hardly a plot at all. It's simply a series of half-formed ideas that were strung together and spat out.
The entire book is underdeveloped to a point of near illiteracy. It shows why there continues to be merit in publishing, where a piece goes through the rigorous test of being picked up by a publisher, edited, and evaluated before releasing it to the public. Vanity publishing has none of the benefits of the calculated criticism that comes with releasing a book. There is clear passion here, but it lacks any direction or refinement.
September 20, 2014
This is a dark read with some taboo undertones, a lot of detailed drug scenes, a couple of sex scenes, a couple of horribly tragic situations, and some very deep emotional pain going on. It is not a light and fluffy read, it is not a romantic story, it does not have a happy ending.
This story feels so real from beginning to end that your heart can't help but bleed for Sadie.
I couldn't give this a 5 star because of some grammatical issues and some timing that doesn't add up, but it is definitely a book worth reading.
This story feels so real from beginning to end that your heart can't help but bleed for Sadie.
I couldn't give this a 5 star because of some grammatical issues and some timing that doesn't add up, but it is definitely a book worth reading.
February 24, 2015
I can't even begin to say what this book was for me. Excitement, happiness, love, sadness. Awesome writing. I can't seem to shake the emotions it left me with.
January 30, 2020
The title sums it up. If you want a drama that is seeped in the 90s Seattle grunge scene, this is it. A melancholic love song to the world of sex, drugs and rock n roll.
Sadie a young creative woman with dark demons of the drugs and alcohol type trying her best to stay off the hard poisons has a chance encounter with her fave rock star, Aries.
What follows is a whirlwind of ups and downs. Creativity, hard rocking and living in the now...but with the highs come the abysmal lows that kick you in the teeth.
Don't read if you don't want a dark love story.
Only faults a few bits that were probably missed in editing
Sadie a young creative woman with dark demons of the drugs and alcohol type trying her best to stay off the hard poisons has a chance encounter with her fave rock star, Aries.
What follows is a whirlwind of ups and downs. Creativity, hard rocking and living in the now...but with the highs come the abysmal lows that kick you in the teeth.
Don't read if you don't want a dark love story.
Only faults a few bits that were probably missed in editing
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