No apologies!! No regrets!!!

I absolutely love this book. Alycen's unapologetic attitude is what I love about it. Damn if she didnt always do it on her own terms!! No regrets!
I say Good on her!!
I was a teenager in the 80s. I went to every rock concert that came through my city. 99% of the shows, I was in the very front...wishing I was backstage and wishing I was Alycen. And so was every other girl at those shows...even if they wont admit it!! I was living vicariously through her while listening!
There is something about these rockstars, especially starting in the 80s. It cant be explained. If you know, you know! It was a glorious time for music!! Hearing about Alycen meeting and knowing these extremely talented and hot musicians gives you a first hand look about what it was all about.
I heard a rockstar say recently that RnR isnt for everyone. It finds its people. Alycen is its people. I am its people. We are still its people!!!
Side note: I love the fact that she could always call her mom, no matter what! I was fortunate to be able to do that as well. But some are no so fortunate.Thank you Alycen Rowse for telling it like it is!!!

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Awesome book

What a crazy fun life she lead. It was nice to go on her journey. I would love to know what she is up to now

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EXCELLENT

Even though, as i understand, this was read by AI, it was an easy listen. The story was fascinating. It's one of my own dreams, from the same era, the same bands, "that could've been me!!" 🤩🤩

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Her storytelling

Fun, easy listen. Very addictive . Miss those old rock n roll days. Sorry they treated her so bad at the end

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good story... horrible narrator

The story was good and was what I expected. unfortunately it was the narration that drove me to distraction. Really, a Midwestern girl who sounds like she was just dropped down from a posh upper middle class London home. As me and her are approximately the same age I could really relate to some of the rock stars that made her swoon way back in the day. I too was a huge Metallica fan and James was also my so-called man. As a hormonal 16 year old I too dreamed of jumping on a tour bus and spending a day or two with this handsome man having the time of my life. But looking back now is a woman in her 50s I can only think of one thing shame on her mother!! I'm now the mother and grandmother of several beautiful young woman who I also encouraged to be free spirits and live their own lives but not as a compromise to their self-esteem. I know Allison made these choices of her own free will but we have to remember that psychologically she was still a child though she had the body of a full-grown woman. Unfortunately even though almost 40 years have passed, societies thoughts and feelings on these men has not. if you have artistic talent money or power you have the freedom to do whatever it is you want. As recent cases have come to light most of the young men and women who have been a part of this scene do not come out unscathed or unharmed. I hope Allison is living her best life ever and as we know most of these rock stars fell by the wayside. Sure there are a few exceptions such as Metallica and Bon Jovi who continue to entertain us to this day. In closing if you're 18 years old and want to put on your little leather mini skirt and chase whoever is the idol at the time go for it but let's quit sacrificing our 14 and 15 year old girls to these grown men.

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The voice is all wrong!! So many mispronounced words.

This could have been a really fun book to listen to but the English accent for a girl from the Midwest just doesn’t work for me. Maybe I will read the actual book but the AI voice ruins it for me.

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Well written!

A good listen made this a fast one that I didn't want to put down. Even the AI voice with it's British accent grew on me! You will enjoy it. I found it very believable.

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This seems to be an honest account of things.

I wish this had been read by a person. AI reading has no personality, doesn't pronounce things right and has no intonation. The fact that it doesn't seem human takes away from the story in general.

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S*x positive… until it’s not

Sexy and realistic unapologetic tell all… or so it seems for the first couple hours. Yeah, it can be disturbing at times, the writer was so young and some of the men are beyond creeps, but the writer is very upfront about often being the aggressor and how she outplayed the boys at their games. I was here for this s*x positive book until she went into a naive rant about how the underage Lolita’s had done all the seducing and the middle aged rockers had been their unknowing victims. LMAO, the rockers knew exactly what they were doing, it was an unspoken open ‘secret’. Don’t ask, don’t tell. I’m glad the author wasn’t a victim, but I’m sure with all the drugs, booze, and underage girls, there certainly were. Despite how ‘experienced’ and ‘naturally talented’ the author is, the spice is relatively vanilla, and the author seems in modern terms inexperienced. At the end of the book the s*x positive narrative devolves into picky me girl language and kink shaming. The author isn’t like ‘other groupies.’ She talks about these other groupies being jealous of her, but is often left out of the more hedonistic partying and appears very jealous of the rockers wives. There is an undercurrent of her being bitter that she is the road wife and never the legal wife. The worst thing is that it keeps going on and on and on! I started skipping because honestly, there is nothing in a lot of the chapters other than name dropping (a lot of old 80s bands I don’t care about).

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Bad writing, icky vibes, terrible AI voice choice.

I had to stop listening to this. I think I had hoped for some good, saucy tea from the perspective of a tough woman who survived the backstage circus of 80's rock. This is not what this is. The biggest issues this book suffers from:
1. Terrible AI voice. It's Downton Abbey relaying a first person memoir of a Midwestern, minimally educated, smoking, drinking groupie. The voice does not help the story feel more real.
2. If you're looking for insightful & mature musings on a youth spent living out wild party girl times with rock stars, you'll be disappointed. She doesn't seem to have anything insightful or mature to say about her wild times, just lots of weirdly specific sex stories that sound like they're being described by a 15 year old boy.
3. At least now we know which of our fav rock stars from the 80's were pedophiles. Ew.
4. I found myself feeling sad for this woman who spent her youth and adult life chasing acceptance by rock stars, many of them barely known ones. She seems to have based a huge amount of her identity on how well she can parse out her body to whoever is playing in town, and how many other young women she can feel superior to in the process. I hope she finds something more real and gratifying to value herself by in her mature years.
5. Repetitive, uninspired writing over all. Reads like a teen journal trying to be a harlequin novel. How many times can you describe yourself as "luscious" in one book?
There are lots of better memoirs out there from women who actually played music and didn't spend their careers desperately trying to catch the eye of the best lay. Or if they did, they can now look back at it with some humbled and realistic understanding of the toxic mistakes they made.

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