Groupies

A Novel

De: Sarah Priscus

Narrado por: Alex McKenna

""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 Almost Famous, 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 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 . . .

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 listening until the music- and drug-fueled end.

©2022 Sarah Priscus (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Narrator spoke too slow

I had to speed the story up because of how slow she talked and the voices were very cringy. Made it hard to pay attention to the story sometimes

The polaroids! ... and the twist at the end.

I loved the well done, narrated, voices and the story was amazing to listen to.

Could not finish

It’s is really rare that I come across a reader who just completely ruins the experience for me but this is one of those times. So painfully, ridiculously slow. I was listening to the book at 2.4x speed and still couldn’t get through it.

On top of that the book is nothing groundbreaking. Watch Almost Famous and save yourself the time.

Meh

Easy quick read but not very compelling or interesting. only meh. Narrator was super annoying.

Long winded & boring. Seems the entire book is in the character setup phase

Long winded & boring. Seems the entire book is in the character setup phase. Thank you