Guitar Girl

Guitar Girl, written by Sarra Manning is a gripping book about three teenage girls, Molly, Jane, and Tara, who start a band to be part of the `girl revolution.' It offers a rollercoaster of emotions, as the suspense rises and falls all throughout the book.Molly gets the idea to start the band and the others love it! They meet a guy named Dean at one of their gigs who says he and a friend could help the band. They sure did, and they joined the band too! At the first gig they all did together they meet Paul, who wants to be their manager. They have many struggles when they tour together especially with Dean's new girlfriend, Sandrine.They all seem to lose their sprits when they go to America on tour. Jane starts having problems with drugs and alcohol, Tara begins to act really mean, and Dean and Molly have a very discomforting kiss.When Paul discovers all this is going on, he starts to tell every band member the same thing, "that they are the most important person," and that sparks huge controversy within the band.Sarra Manning is a teen queen. She is the editor of many huge teen magazines including Seventeen. She has written five books, and is working on her sixth. She lives in London with her dog.I thought the book was really engaging. The characters were easy to get attached to. I recommend the book to anyone who has tried to start a band or dreamt of starting a band. Its great for teen girls. I wouldn't recommend it if you like books with perfect endings. This book leaves you with unwanted emotions, and lingering questions.

When I first saw this book I just had to pick it up and read it. I just had to know why this chick was called guitar girl. Its pretty much about a girl who starts a band in London [by the way it may take you a little while to get that this story is set in London]. Her name is Molly, her and her friends pair up with Dean and his friend. I was unable to put this book down. This book is about all the things that take toll on a band. Sex, drugs, fans, and of course the music. Jane, T, Tara, Dean and Molly are all rapped up into the crazy rock and roll world. I do hope they make his movie on film someday.By the way the ending is sad and makes you want to cry but at the same time feel all fuzzy inside.

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!) *(^_^)*

Are you kidding me? Who makes a bunch of 17 yr olds the "hottest thing" after they only play 2 live shows? This book is ridiculous, it will give tweens the wrong impression of the music business, and this entire book is laced with inappropriate mishaps. Not to mention how bland the writing is. These characters are not developed well at all, and Manning mainly focuses on Molly (who is the most confused and poorly created character of all time). The writer basically made this poor girl out to be an idiot. Don't even get me started on Jane. If you're going to make a girl in a band a drug addict (cliche much?) at least make it believable. Give her a reason! Don't just go "Hmm, I think I'll throw in a slutty drug addict chick" and then don't delve into her psyche a little bit. The "magazine articles" within the book were tragically awful. NO ONE would ever write an article like that. Bottom line: The story would be slightly interesting had it been writen by someone with more writing skills.

Arrived promptly, well labelled and packed. Enjoyable story from Sara Manning. Would recommend site to others

Teenage girls (the target audience) may well nurture dreams of becoming pop stars and so enjoy this, but I wonder if they would be as disappointed by the ending as I was?

Have only just discovered SARRA and decided to go on Line and get the rest of her books Great Reading

Daughter enjoyed this xams present and has finished already and starting to retread it again, most be good book then.

ok

My daughter loves it