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Groupies | Sarah Priscus
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"What a thrill it is to read Sarah Priscus' 70s rock, California-dreaming Groupies. This shimmering debut is packed with tenderness and awe against a backdrop of drugs, sex, rock stars, and high drama. Faun is a lovable, believable, and wonderfully drawn character who will remain in my heart and mind for a very, very long time." -- Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane In a debut perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six, Mary Jane, and The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, Sarah Priscus shines a bright light on the grungy yet glittery world of 1970s rock 'n' roll and the women - the groupies - who unapologetically love too much in a world that doesn't love them back. It's 1977, and Faun Novak is in love with rock 'n' roll. After her mother's death, Faun, a nave 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 . . . Equal parts an evocative coming-of-age and a cutting look at fame, desire, and the media, Groupies is a novel that will have you turning the pages until the music- and drug-fueled end.
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AsYouWish
Groupies | Sarah Priscus
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“Josie, who‘d be covered in blood on the bathroom tiles in nine months‘ time…” with this amazing opening line, I was hooked. I needed to know who Josie was & why she would be covered in blood in nine months (not for the reason I was originally guessing)! This book had twists & turns I was not expecting & I really felt like I was there. Advertised as a cross between Almost Famous & Daisy Jones & the Six, this book did not disappoint!

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dabbe This cover flips me out! 🤣👽🤣 10mo
AsYouWish @dabbe 😂🤣 I get that, I think that is why it took me so long to read it. Soooo good, though! 10mo
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ElleMNOpe
Groupies | Sarah Priscus
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Daisy Jones & the Six meets Almost Famous. Good writing & construction, but a bit of a repetitive plot & some slower pacing. I did enjoy the story & the atmospheric descriptions. The protagonist is a bit bland, mostly blending into the scenery as a fly on the wall. This made for a disjointed feel amongst the famed drugs, sex, & rock & roll. A slightly different spin on the 70s band themed fiction novel, this is a decent read but not a stand out.

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Tiffiney
Groupies | Sarah Priscus
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Mehso-so

This book was just okay. I think my biggest complaint is the dialogue.
It‘s also much longer than it should be…it kind of drags on ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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KristiAhlers
Groupies | Sarah Priscus
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Panpan

I don‘t get the hype. They only thing this book has in common with Daisy Jones is it revolves around music. I couldn‘t care less about the characters or their struggles 🙄. It tried too hard and went no where. And not quickly.

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AudiobookingWithLeah
Groupies | Sarah Priscus
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Mehso-so

2¾⭐
First off this is nowhere near the story that Daisy Jones was…it really didn‘t have the same vibe at all…other than the time period. Overall, this was bogged down by bland characters, and a super slow-moving plot, it really could have been shortened up in length. Its only saving grace was the ending…it wasn‘t enough to carry the whole book but it gave the story the closure that it needed.

Megabooks Pass!! 2y
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GerardtheBookworm
Groupies | Sarah Priscus
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1977. After the death of her mother, photographer Faun goes to live with best friend in Los Angeles and ends up following a famous rock band and a lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock and roll in this fictional musical novel that is Daisy Jones & the Six mixed with How to Be Build a Girl.

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