BOOK REVIEW: GROUPIES BY SARAH PRISCUS

 

GOODREADS SUMMARY

It’s 1977, and Faun Novak is in love with rock ‘n’ roll.

After her mother’s death, Faun, a naïve college dropout, grabs her Polaroid and hops a Greyhound to Los Angeles. In the City of Angels, she reconnects with her charismatic childhood friend Josie, now an up-and-coming model and muse. To make their reunion even sweeter, Josie is now dating Cal Holiday, the frontman of the superstar rock band Holiday Sun, and Faun is positively mesmerized.

Except it’s not just the band she can’t get enough of. It’s also the proud groupies who support them in myriad ways. Among the groupies are: a doting high school girl at war with her mother; a drug-dealing wife and new mom who longs to be a star herself; and a cynical mover-and-shaker with a soft spot for Holiday Sun’s bassist.

Faun obsessively photographs every aspect of this dazzling new world, struggling to balance her artistic ambitions with the band’s expectations. As her confidence grows for the first time in her life, her priorities shift. She becomes reckless with friendship, romance, her ethics, and her bank account.

But just as everything is going great and her boring, old life is falling away, Faun realizes just how blind she has been to the darkest corners of this glamorous musical dreamland as the summer heats up and everything spirals out of control . . .

TEE'S THOUGHTS

Faun Novak's mother has died, she drops out of college, packs her bags, and runs off to LA to stay with her former high school best friend Josie. Josie is not a cool California girl, with a small-time modeling career and a boyfriend in a popular band called Holiday Sun. Faun becomes involved with the band and the groupies that hang with them as she pursues trying to be a Rock Photographer.

There is so much to love about Groupies ( the book, not the girls, however, they are not bad either ). I loved the feeling of the sun-washed 70s vibe, the living in California with perpetual summer. This book has been compared to Daisy Jane and The Six, but don't expect it to be, it is different, this centers around the people around a band, not the band itself as Daisy does.

Sarah Priscus has written a gripping ad fun debut novel that proves she is well on her way to becoming a writer that can keep the reader entertained with her beautiful prose.

There were a lot of characters in this book, and that is the only thing I had a problem with. It was hard for me to keep some of them straight, however, someone else may not have that problem and enjoy each of their places in the story.

This is the book you will want to grab when it hits the shelves on July 12, shove it in your beach bag and head out to catch some sun. It is dreamy, has the most perfect ending, and will have you wishing for a time when you could have been part of the glittery music scene of LA.

Whiskey a-go-go anyone?