Rockaholic
– CJ Skuse
Pages: 365
Publisher: Chicken
House
Release Date: 7th
March 2011
Jody’s obsessed with a rock star.
At Jackson Gaitlin’s concert,
she’s right at the front. But when she’s caught in the crush, Jody’s carried
backstage. Throw in concussion, a super-wired superstar, and a Curly Wurly –
and she finds herself taking home more than a poster.
OMG! Jody’s kidnapped him. But
what happens when the rock star in her garage doesn’t want to leave?
Jody’s stuck between a rock idol
and a hard place!
CJ
Skuse’s second novel is just as brilliantly mad-cap and filled to the brim with
laughs as her first.
I
have to say that one of the things I looked forward to the most while reading Rockaholic was starting a new chapter
because the titles are made of awesome. I mean, you don't come across many
books that have chapter titles like ‘Too Posh To Mosh’, ‘Softly, Softy, Catch a
Junkie’ and ‘Jody Pothead and the Half-Assed Snail’ very often, do you? I love
them – they’re utterly brilliant.
Jody
is completely nutty – in the best way, of course. The way she stumbled into kidnapping Jackson
was absolutely hilarious and I can’t imagine it happening to many other people,
but her, definitely. Her all-consuming love for Jackson Gaitlin and his band
The Regulators is beyond anything I can comprehend – she’s obsessed. Her
conviction in them is amazing. It wasn’t just this that made her stand out
though. Jody has left school after finishing her GCSE’s and is now working full
time and that is not something that I’ve come across very often, if at all, in
YA and it really threw me.
Though
I don’t recall ever really feeling the way about a band that Jody does, I
definitely remember that single-minded conviction that some person, someone
completely out of reach, if utterly perfect for you. That that person will
complete you and fix everything wrong in our life. Jody gets the shock o her
life when he’s not the dream she imagined and I was heart-broken for her. Even
after Jody’s experiences, I’m still convinced that my hero, in a different way
to how Jody sees Jackson, will be just as amazing as I imagine if, *when*, I
get to meet her. I’d be curious to see if anyone can guess who she is...?
With brilliant escapades, characters to fall
in love with and YA references scattered throughout, Rockaholic is a lovely way to see out Contemp YA Month.
Thank
you to Chicken House for providing me with a review copy.
Sophie
This is a really mad book, but just absolutely fantastic. I really loved it. Well done on your Contemp month!
ReplyDeleteTotally intriguing review! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for an absolutely brilliant Contemp YA month.
I absolutely adored this book! I thought it was just be madness and oddball humour based on the cover, but I thought there was so much more to it. I thought all of the characters really stood out as being really fully-formed and they are some of my favourite characters in recent times. Especially Mac and Cree.
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