Gritty romance worth a read

Street song is well worth a read - I'd give it four and a half stars but Amazon doesn't do fractions. It's a story about a young man who has talent but lets himself be manipulated, who fails and falls. Ryan Lee Callaghan is RyLee, one time PopIdol; he lacks real confidence; his wild and sudden success undoes him & he takes to drugs... His meteoric career flashes out of existence. He feels he is nothing. After a final confrontation with his one time manager - & step father - he ends up in Belfast. While strumming a guitar and wondering what to do he meets Toni, a member of a two girl band called Polly Tree. Toni is a poor guitarist but a fine singer. Ryan, calling himself Cal for fear that his past will come back and bite him, ends up joining the band. The band clicks and things are looking up... Then the past and all the weak things that are RyLee come back to haunt his would be happy story... He becomes a song of the street, a dirge really. ( )