Review: Love and the Rock Star
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
This trilogy is 743 pages -- a great weekend of reading if you like a story about a young independent woman's tricky love life and writing/blogging career.  It kept me on the edge of my chair til the last two pages.  Loved this book!Travel writer Andy, a woman, meets lead singer Giovanni on the night the band signs with a manager -- it's an early stage for the band, when they are still playing covers and need financing to produce their first album of original songs.  Andy and the new skeevy but prominent New York-based manager both say yes to the band -- she agrees to write promotional and other articles for them, and she agrees to a dance with Giovanni at the club where they've been performing.  Despite her professional contribution to supporting the new band's marketing, some of it for free, Andy soon earns the label of "groupie".  She doesn't fight it.  She's 5'5" and a little bit heavy-set (she says it's an extra 35 pounds), and instead of working on it she eats the fried foods and hamburgers and milkshakes she loves all through the book.  It's weird -- she's too smart to be unhealthy.  She pushes through the random comments and the expectations that women need to look a certain way, but at low moments, she finds herself agreeing that good looking, fit men should be paired up with gorgeous, slender women. When a handsome west-coast entertainment manager 20 years her senior shows interest in Andy, at a convention in Las Vegas, her life starts to get interesting.  [His HEA is a cold bucket of water for some reason, he's so wonderful.]  Andy manages to keep her eye on the prize through some dark episodes.  Ladies: don't wait ten weeks for a pregnancy test.  What's that about, anyway?  They cost $10 at any drugstore.  This is like the fourth book I've read recently where sexually active women start throwing up and assume they have the flu.  You need to know you're pregnant so you can stop drinking alcohol, start taking vitamins/folic acid, cut back on caffeine and get decent sleep and exercise.