Irate

A Rocker's Raging Romance

De: Alexis Soleil

Narrado por: William J. Davenport

A hot-headed thrash metal bassist struggles with his abusive family history as it affects his future with his house songstress fiancé.

World-renowned Ramiro Espinoza, the bassist/vocalist of the heavy metal band IRATE, seemed to have it all on stage. But backstage, Ramiro's life was far from perfect. He was raised in a household where his father constantly threw Bible verses in his face. On top of that, he, his mother, and his sister endured lots of physical and emotional abuse.

Music was an outlet for Ramiro, where he learned to play the bass guitar and later found his singing voice. He sung lyrics about his bad relationship with his father and other issues in the world that vexed along with fast, aggressive tunes. Ramiro and two other bandmates formed a trio that captivated listeners in the millions. His girlfriend Noelle, an African-American house/techno songstress gave up her career performing in small venues in New York to tour with Ramiro around the world.

During the band's tour, he constantly put her style of music down, belittled her in front of everyone, and even got physical. Without hesitation, she left Ramiro right in the middle of his tour. Ramiro knew he was in the wrong and couldn't fight his demons alone. His manager arranged for a counselor to tour with this metal god and held sessions between shows. Ramiro needed to make things right, so that Noelle would walk down the aisle. But the man who made Ramiro's life a living hell resurfaced to annihilate whatever happiness he had. Now, Ramiro must confront the demon who is his father in human form.

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Rockstar Romance

Overall this was a pretty decent story in general.

I do feel like the narrator could have chosen a better recording area. There were multiple parts in the recording where it sounded like he was in a tunnel and a couple times it sounded like something was dropped in the background, these things made it distracting sometimes.


Roman had a very troublesome youth when it came to his father. He grows to be the lead guitarist for his band Irate, and comes to wonder if he is any different from his father.

One thing I didn't like about this book is it is in narrator POV.

Teenagers would like this.

The narration was a bit dry. A few times I heard what sounded like a cat purring. It was distracting. I think this would be a great story for teenagers about a young man dealing with an abusive father that fuels his success in thrash/heavy metal rock music. With that said, my biggest complaint is the use of the words "glare", "glared" "glaring", "smirking", "smirked", "stormed" repeatedly. It was beyond redundant!
I think that the story would have been very good with the use of a thesaurus. Still, with all that said... I liked the plot and the ending.