by Cagivagurl
Finally finished... Started at 4am. I enjoyed it, thank you for publishing all at once.
Thanks for another beautiful, heart rending and joyous tale. I think you do this kind of story as well as anybody on this site.
Uhauls and high drama! Wow! Thx for keeping me reading all day, bitch ;). Lotta twists and turns in this tale. Saw some coming but certainly not all. I’m glad the parental units came around! Tho calling them “”the olds” kinda hurt my feelings lol. I’m glad it’s a fictional story or I’d forever worry about Andi going back to drugs. Heroin and meth are nasty mistresses and they can come back to bite anytime. I hope Andi proves to be a survivor. Thx for a very hard to put down story
WHAT HAPPENED TO DAISY??? WHO'S TAKING CARE OF DAISY???
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Thanks! Fun ride. This is kind of similar to other band stories, including sleazy manager and drugs, I was for a moment thinking it was a re-release/revised version, but I suppose band journeys are pretty similar. Anyway, fun read, nonetheless.
Thank you for starting by telling us this is unedited. It's a decent story, but like a song it needs polishing. Please, get this edited and repast it.
Thanks for the great read I started reading this this morning and couldn't stop as you had me from the very start
It's a beautiful story with a lot of twists and turns for Roz and some very hard lessons for Andi for both their journeys of self discovery
I can't wait for your next story mate
Started reading this Tuesday afternoon, just finished it at 4am Wednesday morning, just couldn’t stop reading. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍
I don’t have the words to describe how I felt reading through this. It is incredibly evocative, and I now feel spent emotionally.
Keep up the amazing work.
Thank for publishing it all at once and in one part.
I’m glad I am in hospital for a couple of weeks as that is a story that would not let me put it down. The intensity of the emotions was so raw and powerful in places. Add to that the constant risk of Andi’s demon addiction coming back to bite her and possibly destroy her life and you gave us a masterpiece.
Although long, it still seems to come to an abrupt end. I agree with steeltiger01 that it needs polishing. I'm almost willing to volunteer. The four "Mr's" on the first page (plus on pages 19, 20 (3) and 21 (2) and the inital capitals in the middle of sentences were particularly grating. Four stars but could be five with some more polish
This was a long, but a great story, well-written, and definitely a journey. It explores so much of human emotions, fears, trials, and at the end, joy.
I don't know how all of the events and emotions can be described as well as I think they were in this tale. I just think they were.
10 stars is what I think it deserves, and I'm sorry there are only 5 available.
I gave it those five.
VERY nicely done...
I loved it, it is a long read but the twist and turns kept me on my toes. I have to agree with a bunch of the different issues some of the characters had when it came to labels and how they might be treated when they "came out". I know it is very prevalent in the US to mistreat folks based on sexual identity or mental illness, or even drug / alcohol addiction issues.
What a prolific writer. I don't know where she finds the time to churn out so many great stories. This is no exception. However long, I enjoyed it. Couldn't put it down.
My word girl. You do put us through the wringer. Fantastic story. I think that fact that it wasn't edited made it more powerful somehow. Five stars from me x
I read it in one go. It's the first time I read one of your stories. It's beautiful, emotional and all that.
This story broke my heart in to piecies and the put it back together again.
You have so much talent don't ever stop writing.
Excellent story. With a length equivalent to a 300 page printed novel it's a long read but totally worth it.
Congrats!
I never thought I would make it through 23 pages, but you caught my interest.
Great writing.
What could be done better?
Commas. Separating names from the rest of the sentence by commas confuses me. A lot. For me it would work much smoother without those.
Surprisingly few spelling mistakes, but bought/brought and there/their come up a few times.
May be have somebody look over it quickly (ha ha, 23 pages …) and make it perfect.
Oh, and another thing. I am a guy, but do (some) women really forget or overcome huge fights so quickly? I know several women who keep their enemies for a lifetime. Please forgive me, but for a guy like me these constant reconciliations felt a bit weird.
To sum it up: Great story - please keep on sharing your stories with us!
What a moving story. Emotion is the main thing that I pick up, rolling through the whole story, ebbing and flowing, destructive, cathartic and healing. Beautiful.
Wow, what a fabulous roller coaster of a ride...
I laughed, grinned, scoffed, teared up and cried! You took us through the highs and lows of life and love, wonderful...
I'm so glad I read it after recommendations from friends... Got to read more of yours !
What a fantastic story. So many crazy - but believable - twists and turns. This is the first story of yours that I have read, but I plan on going through and reading all the rest of yours before I go on to any other authors. Thank you.
With this joining Dirty Kissable Lips and Marion you've got that band thing down pretty tight. 5*
Wow? That was a plot with more twists and turns than one could imagine. And I kind of loved that it was unedited, raw. It really fit the story. Plus, being that I live in New Zealand I totally got the dialogue, and loved journeying around the motu with you.
Knowing in advance this was an unedited first draft, I read it with that in mind, and did my own editing while I read. Total admiration for this. I loved the story lines, adored the characters, fell in love with Roz, tho she sometimes pissed me off, as did Kat, I wanted to know Blaire better...I thought she maybe got a bit of a short shrift development wise, and hated it when it was over, b/c I wasn't ready to be done. Beautifully rendered. Thanks for sharing this with us. You are a gift.
Damn, I can’t say it’s faultless, because it isn’t, the drama, angst and repression is leaping off the page at us, but 80% of the time we’re engrossed and quite frankly it was a helluva ride, I’m sad we didn’t get to hear their triumphant comeback as a five piece, but I’m glad we’ve seen their emotional states mostly settled. That said I’d echo the comment re Blair being consigned to being a bit player, her character was never really filled out other than as a the ubiquitous last member of the group, we needed her to shine shine in her own right, although I’d say an edit and a beta reader would have fixed the issue - alongside the use of Mr’s instead of Mrs which I found irritating, but hey that’s on me. If I’d wanted one aspect changed about the story it’d be the early years bullying, in the greater part of the story it does very little to push the story along, it’s pretty much dealt with in a few paragraphs after they start the band as a foursome, so for my money it’s a redundant section best used on another story.
I really enjoyed reading this, despite it being hard going in places, as an unedited piece it’s ridiculously good, it’s an easy 5⭐️, many thanks for both writing it and posting it here on Lit, many thanks, cheers, Ppfzz.