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Title: Jessie Gray
Author: Emma Blair
Narrator: Eve Karpf
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The first time Jessie laid her eyes on Tommy McBride was in July 1947, when they were still at school - and long before she knew anything about heartbreak or pain.
Then she was the sheltered, dreamy ministers daughter, determined to take a bite out of life. And he was the fighter from the wrong side of the tracks, hell-bent on proving himself in the world. They had nothing in common, separate destinies. But in 1947 the world was about to move into new decades of turbulence and change - and it was only the fighters and the dreamers who would make it theirs.
Members Reviews:
A thracket of pee
Jessie may be Gray, but this ain't no Fifty Shades. No, not that terrible, though still pretty dismal. I thought it was funny how when I saw the title of this book I said to myself 'that has got to be one of the most uninteresting names to select for your heroine; and to top it all you made it the title!?'. Well, apparently Emma Blair, and the heroine, agree, as she starts out the book calling herself by the name Star, feeling as she does that she needs a little livening up.
In the beginning there was hope. The first section, covering the high school years, was interesting enough. Flash forward to the mid-1950s and the writing becomes amateur. Cardboard characters, lots of telling not showing, simplistic prose-- all leading to boredom. We get the story of Tommy Boy the Teddy Boy and the titular heroine, who together embark on a career in music. Gang leader, rock star. So much sexy potential, right? Didn't happen. If there was some to be found I missed it.
I like the cover better on the audiobook version. The text version that I have pictures a 40-ish-looking woman in a granny dress, amid foliage, playing the violin. This is a book about rock stars! Wtf? I can only assume this is a depiction of life post Greenday, but post-Greenday is post-book, so still, wtf? Also, as per usual with Blair's books, the back-cover blurb is hardly helpful in getting an idea of plot. All it tells us is to expect dreamers and fighters in an era of turbulence and change, but no mention of what they're dreaming and fighting about. It makes it sound like a book about revolutionaries, but thank the lord there are no communists or other forms of political affiliation to be found here. Yeah, I guess there's that going for it. Still, I hardly consider it a fitting description for a story about a generic top-40 singer and a songwriter.
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Title: Jessie Gray
Author: Emma Blair
Narrator: Eve Karpf
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The first time Jessie laid her eyes on Tommy McBride was in July 1947, when they were still at school - and long before she knew anything about heartbreak or pain.
Then she was the sheltered, dreamy ministers daughter, determined to take a bite out of life. And he was the fighter from the wrong side of the tracks, hell-bent on proving himself in the world. They had nothing in common, separate destinies. But in 1947 the world was about to move into new decades of turbulence and change - and it was only the fighters and the dreamers who would make it theirs.
Members Reviews:
A thracket of pee
Jessie may be Gray, but this ain't no Fifty Shades. No, not that terrible, though still pretty dismal. I thought it was funny how when I saw the title of this book I said to myself 'that has got to be one of the most uninteresting names to select for your heroine; and to top it all you made it the title!?'. Well, apparently Emma Blair, and the heroine, agree, as she starts out the book calling herself by the name Star, feeling as she does that she needs a little livening up.
In the beginning there was hope. The first section, covering the high school years, was interesting enough. Flash forward to the mid-1950s and the writing becomes amateur. Cardboard characters, lots of telling not showing, simplistic prose-- all leading to boredom. We get the story of Tommy Boy the Teddy Boy and the titular heroine, who together embark on a career in music. Gang leader, rock star. So much sexy potential, right? Didn't happen. If there was some to be found I missed it.
I like the cover better on the audiobook version. The text version that I have pictures a 40-ish-looking woman in a granny dress, amid foliage, playing the violin. This is a book about rock stars! Wtf? I can only assume this is a depiction of life post Greenday, but post-Greenday is post-book, so still, wtf? Also, as per usual with Blair's books, the back-cover blurb is hardly helpful in getting an idea of plot. All it tells us is to expect dreamers and fighters in an era of turbulence and change, but no mention of what they're dreaming and fighting about. It makes it sound like a book about revolutionaries, but thank the lord there are no communists or other forms of political affiliation to be found here. Yeah, I guess there's that going for it. Still, I hardly consider it a fitting description for a story about a generic top-40 singer and a songwriter.