Overall I was disappointed with this book, maybe because I had high expectations from the author of "Hammer of the Gods".

My trouble began with the glaring errors that made me question the validity with the rest of the book. Most notably, he mentions Paul Stanley as the bass player for Kiss which is completely untrue as Gene Simmons is the bassist. Maybe it's a typo but I think it's pretty bad that an author covering rock music doesn't know who the bass player of Kiss is, especially since Gene Simmons is the most visible member of that group.

This error made me question the rest of the book. How could I know if what I was reading was true?

The author also spends a lot of time talking about the impending grunge movement that takes place in the 90's, almost saying the GNR's Use Your Illusion albums may have been more successful if it weren't for Nirvana. I don't know about you, but I remember how HUGE the Use Your Illusion albums were when they came out. MTV played November Rain almost hourly and there was a lot of press about the tour following the release. Grant it, the grunge movement impacted the music industry and put a lot of heavy metal acts into obscurity, but in 1992, heavy metal was alive and well. Plus, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at first was lumped into the heavy metal genre (remember Kurt Cobain wearing a ball gown on Headbanger's Ball?) The author neglects the fact that Guns was so dysfunctional that they would have broken up even in Nirvana never existed.

Also, the author spends time actually reviewing, song-by-song, each album. While it's not a big deal, but this a biography, not a Rolling Stone review. I don't need your opinion on the songs.

My recommendation is to not buy this book and simply just enjoy the mystery behind Guns N' Roses because we will never know the full story.