Jeannie H. (ilovebooksanddogs) - , reviewed on 12/19/2022 + 356 more book reviews

I gave this book 4 stars because I really did like it but then again...... I really didn't. I'm so conflicted on how to review this book. I'm not sure how to describe the way Pamela writes, poetic at times, self fullfilling at others, plain out not understandable throughout most of it...she rambles a lot.

Still I have to say that I enjoyed this book because of the era.....the history of a place in time that will never be again. Rock n roll, hippies, free love, groupies, drugs, sex and all that wild stuff. Exactly why I picked this book up to read! I wanted to be scandalized...but. Big BUT!

What bothered me most about this book was that she never figured herself out. I saw over and over again an insecure, low-self esteem teenager reaching out to anyone that would love her, and her allowing herself to be used over and over in ways that a normal person would never allow. She would fall in love with a rock n roller one day, sleep with him and the very next day be with another rock star, in love with him, sleeping with him, then a week later after being used and dumped she would immediately jump on the band wagon and be with another rock star having sex with him, doing drugs, then the next day be off with another rock star, having sex with him, in love with him, then when dumped, she never loved him, etc, etc...I mean this girl was just all over the place. A BIG rubber ball. I started to feel so damn sorry for her! I gave up counting how many men she was having sex with at one time because I ran out of fingers and toes!!

I'm not trying to judge her but hard not to when throughout the book she judges other girls who are doing the same thing she is. She was not above judging them, calling them names, making fun of them, and the older she got the more judgemental she became of the younger groupies trying to step in to take her place. That kind of got under my skin pretty quickly.

Still, this is a fascinating read about a place in time that is gone and will never be again. I loved the history of rock bands that I grew up with and the names she threw around. This is her first book, she has written 4 more after this one that I know of and she throws a LOT of names around. If you are interested in rock n roll, sex, rock stars, movie stars, groupies, drugs, and just plain crazyiness this is the book to read. I did like it, just didn't like seeing a beautiful young woman debase herself in this manner. I think that sums it up for me!
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