Title: The Legend of Arturo King
Series: Legendary Rock Stars #1
Author: L.B. Dunbar
Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 27, 2015
My name is Arturo King, and I’m told I’m a legend in music. My band is called the Nights and we got our start at the underground Round Table in New York City. Raised by a foster father, I didn’t know the extent of my inheritance until I was twenty-one, and it was all more than I bargained for. I wanted to play the guitar and rule the world with song, but I learned I have a mother from old money, a dead father who was once a real estate mogul, and a record company that needed some rebuilding. Mure Linn, my friend and mentor, has been by my side through it all, teaching me to play, strengthening my lyrics, and guiding me in the music industry. There was one area he couldn’t guide me, though, and that was love. Guinevere DeGrance changed everything for me, I suppose, including the reason I’m here learning the legend of my life without remembering any of it.
The legendary rock star series begins...
My 3.5 star review of The Legend of Arturo King
LB Dunbar is another new author to me, and I enjoyed her
writing, and look forward to the rest of the books in this series.
I went into this not knowing much about the book, except the
rock star aspect. And I ended up falling in love with the Arturo, or the “King
Arthur and Guinevere,” aspect of the story.
Arturo King is a ladies man, a lead singer in a band called “The
Nights.” I love the play on words and the tie to the story of King Arthur. He has
such a passion for his music, and you can tell. But then one night he spots a
woman, and she could change the game.
Guinie DeGrance is a daughter of a famous man, who owns the
club that the Nights play at, and she has be warned to stay away from Rock
Stars, but Arturo King is really hard to stay away from.
I love both of the characters, their love affair is a slow
simmer, and it turns to a boil over time. I love the changes we see in both the
characters, and it makes for a really interesting story. They definitely have
their bits of angst, as every couple does, but overall it’s a super romantic
tale of Arturo and Guinie.
This isn’t just a retelling of King Arthur
though, even though it had bits and pieces of the story in there, it’s such an
enigma all on its own. I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy in
exchange for my honest review, and I can’t wait to see where LB takes us on the
next journey.
I’d like to say I was always a writer. I’d also like to say that I wrote every day of my life since a child. That I took the teaching advice I give my former students because writing every day improves your writing. I’d like to say I have my ten-thousand hours that makes me a proficient writer. But I can’t say any of those things. I did dream of writing the “Great American Novel” until one day a friend said: Why does it have to be great? Why can’t it just be good and tell a story?
As a teenager, I wrote your typical love-angst poetry that did occasionally win me an award and honor me with addressing my senior high school class at our Baccalaureate Mass. I didn’t keep a journal because I was too afraid my mom would find it in the mattress where I kept my copy of Judy Blume’s Forever that I wasn’t allowed to read as a twelve year old.
I can say that books have been my life. I’m a reader. I loved to read the day I discovered “The Three Bears” as a first grader, and ever since then, the written word has been my friend. Books were an escape for me. An adventure to the unknown. A love affair I’d never know. I could be lost for hours in a book.
So why writing now? I had a story to tell. It haunted me from the moment I decided if I just wrote it down it would go away. But it didn’t. Three years after writing the first draft, a sign (yes, I believe in them) told me to fix up that draft and work the process to have it published. That’s what I did. But one story let to another, and another, and another. Then a new idea came into my head and a new storyline was created.
I was accused (that’s the correct word) of having an overactive imagination as a child, as if that was a bad thing. I’ve also been accused of having the personality of a Jack Russell terrier, full of energy, unable to relax, and always one step ahead. What can I say other than I have stories to tell and I think you’ll like them. If you don’t, that’s okay. We all have our book boyfriends. We all have our favorites. Whatever you do, though, take time for yourself and read a book.
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