The chronicles of a rock band. The first volume is all setup and the band getting its first break. Let me tell you this is not a quick on your lunch break type of a read. There are four books currently and more chapters still appearing on the writer's website. The storyline and the characters are complex and evolving. A great rock 'n' roll band read. Overall a 4 Star. ( )

Oh, oh. That's all. I love this so much, a realistic chronicle of Daron's life from boy to rock star, all set in the 1980s. ( )

Loved this story about a young musical prodigy who is starting up his own band in New Jersey. ( )

I don’t think I’m doing any wrong to the novel saying that indeed this is a Volume One of a chronicle that needs to be read in its totality; in volume one we barely have the chance to know Daron, and he is still in his formative years, experimenting with life, and that means also with sexuality.

Even if he doesn’t want to admit it, Daron is gay; in less than a year, he will have three different partners, all of them men, plus a not so hidden interest in a fourth one. It’s only that we are in 1986 and being gay is still a stigma, especially in the music rock world Daron is trying to enter. Another point that is important to highlight is that this is the 1986, just one years before AIDS became the plague we all know. And unfortunately, Daron is only worried about being gay for what it means to his career, not to his life: Daron is having unprotected sex with many partners, something that will become very dangerous very soon and very dramatically.

Something that is probably important to say is that this is not an erotic romance; Daron is having sex, but most of the time the reader is not invited inside the bedroom, we only know that something happened.

This installment reads smoothly and quickly, and it entices you to go and buy the next volume in the chronicles.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EHZUA0/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

Uncomfortable dated, but interesting in terms of seeing how Tan has gotten better and better as the years pass.