Title: Tough Luck (Hard Rock Roots #3)
Author: C.M. Stunich
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Genre: New Adult Romance
Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets Promotions
Synopsis
Ronnie McGuire is my target. But I wish he wasn't. I didn't sign up for this destruction, this pain. In his music, I hear his soul crying out for me. If I could, I'd run away from here and never look back because to tell you the truth, I'm terrified. There are forces weighing in on me that even I don't understand. I'm scared. Things are dangerous. This could get real ugly, real fast. & & & Lola Saints is a godsend. But I wish she wasn't. I don't know sh*t about her, but already, I'm hooked. When she plays, I can almost imagine the ghosts of the dead are calling out to me. If I could, I'd shed my soul and leave the pain of the past behind me. But I can't. I have to figure out if there's a way to fall in love anew and respect the old. But something else is going on, something weird. Something that tells me my tough luck might just run out real fast. *This is NOT the last book in the series. There will be later books featuring Turner and Naomi again, and they also appear in this volume quite a bit. ;)
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Kota's Review
This story is Ronnie and Lola’s story, and it picks up where Get Bent finishes off.
Ronnie has been grieving the death of his one true love for years, and because of that he is just a shell of a man. He is an addict, he fucks around and nothing makes him feel… but in Get Bent, we learnt a lot about what makes him tick.
Lola is a drummer with Glass and Ice, one of the support acts on Tour. She is introduced to us after she shows some interest in Ronnie. Little do we know the intent of that interest in the early stages.
Lola is mixed up in all the drama that surrounds Naomi and Turner, and the tour. In such a big way that when chaos and death start to show up, she is more than entwined.
CM Stunich does not disappoint. This story is very much in the same tone, and style as the rest of the Hard Rocks Roots series. It’s brutal and confronting in its telling. The twists and turns that keep you second guessing in the series remain and I have no idea where the story will go next.
However, for me, this story did not trigger the same emotions that Book 1 & 2 did. I am yet to figure out if it was because I loved Naomi and Turner so much and Ronnie and Lola just didn’t compare in their story, or if it was the delivery and intent of this story.
Tough Luck is getting 3 ½ hearts – it is good in that it is pure CM Stunich, it is confronting, raw and sets the scene for more of the story – but it doesn’t reach the same dizzying heights that the first two books left me sitting at!
I found that while there was plenty happening in this story – it didn’t take me on the same ebb and flow of an emotional journey, my adrenaline didn’t spike.. and the Ronnie who I grew to love in the previous books didn’t quite turn out to be all that! And, Lola well I started out curious, being an Aussie girl and all, but then she didn’t float my boat either. It may have been lack of backstory and depth for her which I didn't connect with, and I found some of her attitudinal comments and behavior's odd - not in she's that fucked up kind of way, but that they seemed to not fit with her character.
But CM seriously knows how to end with a cliff hanger… thank god the next instalment is not that far away… seriously!
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Real Ugly
Get Bent
About the Author
C.M. Stunich was raised under a cover of fog in the area known simply as Eureka, CA. A mysterious place, this strange, arboreal land nursed Caitlin's (yes, that's her name!) desire to write strange fiction novels about wicked monsters, magical trains, and Nemean Lions (Google it!). She currently enjoys drag queens, having too many cats, and tribal bellydance.
Always a fan of the indie scene and 'sticking it to the man,' Ms. Stunich decided to take the road less traveled and forgo the traditional publishing route. You can be assured though that she received several rejections as to ensure her proper place in the world of writers before taking up a friend's offer to start a publishing company. Sarian Royal was born, and Ms. Stunich's books slowly transformed from mere baking chocolate to full blown tortes with hand sculpted fondant flowers.
C.M. is a writer obsessed with delivering the very best and scours her mind on a regular basis to select the most unusual stories for the outside world.
Ms. Stunich can be reached via e-mail or by post and loves to hear from her readers. Ms. Stunich also wrote this biography and has no idea why she decided to refer to herself in the third person.
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