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Hot Wax by M.L. Rio
4.0

I found while reading this I really wanted a playlist by M.L. Rio…but of course couldn’t find one.  M.L. Rio transports the reader in Hot Wax into a time where rock and roll reigns supreme. There was a time in my life that I was going to be a music teacher.  I listened to a lot of music, even more classic rock.  In this we have an interesting chapter structures.  This is divided into 5 parts. We do have snapshots where it will give us a time and a place.  After tha we do have time jumps where we see past time periods where they are labeled as “A side”: for those chapters and “B side” for the present. 
We go from the time where Suzanne is on the road with her father, Gil and his rock band. To the present where she is on the road again but this time Gil has now died and she is on the run from her husband.    I found the story overall to be very well crafted.  This is my first M.L. Rio book.  I do own Graveyard Shift and If We Were Villians and now I am going to have to go on and read them.  I liked the pacing of this. I really like how the story was developed and executed.  This does contain some subject matter that some may find disturbing so I reccomend checking out and authors notes or content warning as always.  
Thank you to Simon and Schuster for the complimentary copy.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.