Guitar Girl
by Sarra Manning
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Author: Sarra ManningEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2004-02-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 256
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Book Review: ........Wait........THAT WAS THE ENDING?!?!?!?!?!
Summary: 4 Stars
I was recently in a bookshop when I spotted this book on the shelf. The cover looked interesting so I bought it and began to read it. At first it was fabulous. The beginning got you interested from the first sentence. The story was about a 17 year old girl with medium length natural brown hair {she later dyes it red `Very Cherry`} called Molly Montgomery [guitar and vocals] who along with her friends Jane Fabian { long hair dyed platinum blonde} [bass] and Tara Jenkin {short black hair} [keyboard] decided to start a band. It was only ever meant to be about messing around writing songs about Hello Kitty and being part of a girl revolution (an idea she got from reading an interveiw by her favourite singer Ruby X). However at one of their gigs the sarcastic but cute Dean Speed {curly brown hair} [guitar] comes into the picture and brings his friend T (no official last name given in the book) {dreadlocks} [drums] along. Thus The Hormones were born. Soon Molly finds herself on a roller coaster ride to the top of the charts. Somewhere along the line though Molly finds herself having feelings for Dean and it's mutual between them. After several kisses and one drunken night of sex and they find themselves at the beginning of a relationship. A great middle to the book. Unfortunately there is one problem in Molly's fairytale. Her manager Paul {natural blonde spiky hair}. He sets out to drive wedges between everyone in the band by causing arguments over who the real star is. Shortly after Jane who has been getting drunk and sleeping with strangers on regular intervals is admitted to hospital for doing a drug overdose and Tara tries to kiss Molly. Paul also threatens Molly with lawsuits and death. Everything goes downhill from that point until Molly breaks up with Dean (she gets the wrong idea and thinks that Paul has told him to pretend to be in love with her when actually Dean really does love her) and quits the band resulting in her being sued for 5 million pounds because she signed a contract after being plyed with copious amounts of alcohol by Paul on her 18th birthday. She also dyes her hair blonde. The ending was depressing and personally I think that the writer made a mistake in the way she finished her book although she was undoubtedly trying to be original. I also think that despite people did like the book (including me) quite a few more would have enjoyed it if she had hurt Paul. Hurt him bad. Possibly kicking him in the crown jewels. Now THAT would have been entertaining. I also think Molly and Dean shouldnt have split up because they were perfect for eachother; so much so that I found myself flicking through the book to the parts where they were interacting.
P.S There were also quite a few minor spelling errors such as `face` instead of `fact` ect.
P.P.S Although the book was supposed to be about a girl who lived in Southport (england) there were frequent american-isms.
P.P.P.S Molly's charecter could also get on your nerves when she threw hissy fits and acted childish.
P.P.P.P.S The end of the book was told to you on the first page which gives away the plot.
Overall though it was quite good. I think that a sequel should be written to right what in my opinion was a wrong and get Dean and Molly back together because everybody loves to read about love. It makes you feel good. I do think it would make a good film though (preferably not showing the parts where they have sex because that would be a bit disgusting. LOL!) *(^_^)*
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