Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton
Every song has a narrative. She is a rising star who sings about the difficult life she has left behind. She is also running away. Get a future, and let go of the past. She has travelled to Nashville in order to fulfil her destiny. And there’s a chance she’ll run into the darkness there. and obliterate her. Only the most adored entertainer in America and its best-selling author could have come up with the plot of Run, Rose, Run, a book that sparkles with peril and desire.
Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton
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The protagonist of the tale is a young woman trying to break into the country music industry. Even to people closest to her, she won’t discuss something from her background, yet most of the narrative focuses on her and her music. It’s a compelling tale.
AnnieLee Keyes had always envisioned herself in Nashville. If only someone would give her a break, she writes and performs her own songs, has a natural beauty, and is more than eager to work hard to succeed. She arrives broke, homeless, and on the run, but when a bartender in the neighbourhood finally gives her the chance to sing, she astounds everyone with her talent, including Ethan Blake, a patron who plays studio guitar for the bar’s owner and well-known retired country legend Ruthanna Ryder, who is also sitting at the bar.
AnnieLee is taken under Ruthanna’s wing and assisted by Ethan in protecting her as she navigates the music industry. Despite her growing affection for Ethan, AnnieLee continues to keep her history a secret. When Ethan shares his traumatic background with AnnieLee, she shares some of it with him but not all of it. Following another assault, AnnieLee flees back to her hometown in order to put her mysterious past to rest and seize control of her bright future. You’ll like Annie Lee’s ascent from nothing. You are drawn into her persona as you follow her from fleeing to emerging celebrities in country music.
Her survival is genuinely painful, inspiring, and realistic when you know her full past, which is revealed later in the novel. You are equally sucked into the personal stories of Ruthanna and Ethan as you are into AnnieLee’s. While the reader follows Annie Lee’s ascent in the music industry, the mystery surrounding her history, and the romance aspects with Ethan, all of these parts come to a satisfactory end, and the plot advances at a good clip.
