Review: Grenade Bouquets - Book #2 Runaway Train - Lee Matthew Goldberg - August 2021 In Book #1 we meet Nico as she decides to run away and get away from everything when her sister Kristen passed away suddenly as her life spiraled out of control. Now in Book #2 which picks up where Book #1 finished. Set in the year 1995 and Nico has been singing in a band called Grenade Bouquets which is her boyfriend Evan's band and they have been spotted by Record companies who want to make them big as they love Nico and she has that star quality. However, as the band goes along for the ride, they start to resent Nico as she becomes the face of the band and the rest of the background music even though they were the ones that created the band. As Nico rises to fame, she learns the underbelly of being a celebrity singer and how fame and fortune can ruin your life as she starts to once again spiral out of control but this time with drinking. Meanwhile back home, her friend Winter has been hanging o...

Review: Runaway Train - Book #1 Runaway Train Series - Lee Matthew Goldberg - April 2021 When I first saw this book offered, I was sitting on the fence and then another email came calling for more reviewers and I was like actually, it does sound like something I might enjoy, and decided to give it a go. I ended up enjoying this book more than I thought I would. Runaway Train is set in 1993 and our main character experiences not only one death but throughout the novel - three deaths. The first is her sister Kristen and then River Phoenix and then the death of Kurt Cobain that will be Nico's turning point in the story. The book follows her journey of finding herself and re-discovering who she is as she is constantly spiraling and her life is out of control. When Kristen dies, Nico writes a bucket list of things to complete and when River Phoenix dies - the idea of running away and finding herself comes to play, and then when Kurt Cobain dies, she realizes her life has come full circl...