Cherie Curie, "Neon Angel"

I read this several months ago, after seeing the Runaways movie, and I am writing it up now so that I can add the link to my recently read books. Since I already reviewed the movie, I'll focus on the things in the book that were not in the movie:

First of all, I was very relieved to get to the end of the book and find that it is the expanded version of Cherie Curie's 1989 co-written YA memoir (with Philip Shusterman! I love him!), since if there had been an even darker version of this memoir floating around, I'd have been worried. XD; This book already has Curie's rape at the hands of her sister's BF before joining the Runaways, "Kim's Sex Education Class," records of her many experiences with downers and uppers, that time she was kidnapped, raped and tortured by an insane fan[1], and oh yeah, her crack cocaine addiction. -_-

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Final note. R wanted to know whether Cherie admits to a sexual relationship with Joan Jett in the book. The closest she comes is in a paragraph about a third of the way through, when she says there was a "sexual attraction" and they had "many close moments that leave me quaking to this day". XD; And, in the meantime, Joan Jett's introduction to the book is surprisingly dry, reading more like a letter of recommendation than an emotional reconnection. But possibly that's just because Joan Jett is an undramatic person, unlike Cherie Curie.

On the other hand, R was somewhat mollified to hear that Joan Jett's business partner, Kenny Laguna, was the driving force behind the legal battle to obtain royalty rights for the members of the Runaways. She was bummed out that Joan had shacked up with a guy, but if Kenny is a Runaways fan, that makes it a bit better.