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Jamie Scallion
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Jamie Scallion
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A winner, a loser, a leader, a loner. The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries. One Mission: To be the biggest band on the planet. When Burt decides he must start a rock band to win the love of Bex, he is forced to assemble a quartet of teenage opposites. The RockAteers are born. It must work, and not just for Burt's sake. Egg has spent his life on the outside looking in, Tea needs to evade a tough future, and Clipper wants more than a fast track to football academy.
When Egg reveals his song-writing genius, the only way is up.... But can they function as a band? Who will win the race to sign them? And who will win the girl? Embodying the reality of This is England and the fun of The Inbetweeners, follow our band on a rollercoaster ride of chaotic gigs, hissy fits, and dirty tricks. The listener can truly live and breathe their experience as the chapters come with an accompanying music track for an entirely new, multilayered experience.
Told from the perspective of the four band members, we discover what it’s really like being in a band, and through their candid diary entries, their emails and lively narrative scenes, we find out what the characters think of one another as they embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.
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Entertaining!
- By Cecilia Castillo on 10-23-22
By: Annie Lyons
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What My Best Friend Did
- By: Lucy Dawson
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4 out of 5 stars 117
Alice's life has become a bit boring lately. Her friends are busy getting married and having babies, but she's not ready for those changes in her own life - not even sure she still loves her boyfriend. Then she meets Gretchen. A brand-new, fun and unencumbered friend. Gretchen knows how to have a good time, and she also has a totally gorgeous brother. Before she knows it, Alice has been swept up into her new best friend's world. But Gretchen has a dark secret. Will Alice learn the truth before she throws her old life away?
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3 out of 5 stars
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hmm
- By Claire Lieber on 03-11-19
By: Lucy Dawson
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Here's Looking at You
- By: Mhairi McFarlane
- Narrated by: Cassandra Harwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 616
The new novel from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Hello. Anna Alessi - history expert, possessor of a lot of hair and an occasionally filthy mouth - seeks nice man for intelligent conversation and Mills & Boon moments. Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn't be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It Grows On You
- By Sharlotte on 05-24-16
By: Mhairi McFarlane
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How to Be Famous
- A Novel
- By: Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 137
A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, "rowdy and fearless... sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways." You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It doesn’t work. You’re emotional pen-friends. You can send each other letters - but you’re not doing anything together. You live in different countries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING , but not for the faint of heart
- By Knitme23 on 07-23-18
By: Caitlin Moran
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Divorcing Jack
- A Novel
- By: Colin Bateman
- Narrated by: Glen Murrant
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, an appetite for drinking and dancing. Dan meets Margaret, and things begin to get out of hand - terrifyingly, she is murdered. Before long, Dan is a target himself, racing as fast as he can against time to crack the mystery.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This Belfast Gal was unimpressed
- By Barbarama on 09-30-23
By: Colin Bateman
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Daron’s Guitar Chronicles, Volume 1
- By: Cecilia Tan
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Daron Marks is a young guitar player with a dream: to make it big like the guys he grew up idolizing in New Jersey - or at least escape his dysfunctional family. He makes it as far as music school in Rhode Island and the rock clubs of Boston beckon him. But it's hard to succeed from the closet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Start of A Relatable Journey...
- By Donald on 10-05-13
By: Cecilia Tan
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I Heart New York: A Novel
- By: Lindsey Kelk
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4 out of 5 stars 114
Angela Clark is in love - with the most fabulous city in the world! When Angela catches her boyfriend with another woman at her best friend's wedding, she's heartbroken and desperate to run away. With little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins, and her passport in hand, Angela decides to jump on a plane for... NYC! Settling into a cute hotel and quickly bonding with benevolent concierge Jenny - a chatterbox Oprah wannabe with room for a new best friend, Angela heads out for a New York makeover....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly wonderful!!!
- By Vicky Red on 04-04-17
By: Lindsey Kelk
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The Piper's Son
- By: Melina Marchetta
- Narrated by: Michael Finney
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca - but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget. Shooting for oblivion, he's hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt; work at the Union pub with his former friends; and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4.5 Stars!
- By Trosado on 09-01-20
By: Melina Marchetta
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Watermelon
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Gerri Halligan
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
At 29, Claire is full of the joys of life - that is, until her husband leaves her on the day she gives birth to her baby. With a broken heart, a beautiful newly born and an expanding mirror image, she decides to visit her eccentric family in Dublin. There she starts to feel better. So much better, in fact, that James is in for a surprise when he decides to slither back into her life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fun read, every time
- By Audrey Smith on 01-06-23
By: Marian Keyes
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Kill Your Friends
- A Novel
- By: John Niven
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4 out of 5 stars 50
As the 20th century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, 27-year-old A&R (artist and repertoire) man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London's music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit - fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine - Stelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wicked and Wild Read
- By Abigail on 07-19-16
By: John Niven
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The Bright Side Running Club
- By: Josie Lloyd
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she’s only just met. Totally blindsided, all she can think about is how she doesn’t want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. And yet it’s running - hot, sweaty, Lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women all going through treatment - that unexpectedly gives Keira the hope she so urgently needs.
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2 out of 5 stars
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depressing
- By Jessica on 09-15-22
By: Josie Lloyd
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I'm Still Standing
- By: Colleen Coleman
- Narrated by: Claire McKenna
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4 out of 5 stars 62
When Evelyn Dooley married her high school sweetheart James, she thought she was set for life. Now she’s 28, single, and fleeing to Dublin from her hometown to avoid the gossip surrounding their breakup...all because of a test-your-relationship board game. This was not in her five-year plan. Then, a chance encounter with gorgeous musician, Danny, leads to an unlikely friendship, and soon the pair are running music nights together in one of the oldest pubs in Dublin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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easy listening
- By Shez on 11-20-20
By: Colleen Coleman
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The Mum Who’d Had Enough
- By: Fiona Gibson, Nigel Pilkington
- Narrated by: Paul Tyreman, Rachael Louise Miller, Sara Poyzer, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Nate Turner has a nice life. He has a steady job as a driving examiner and lives with his wife, Sinead, and son, Flynn, in a lovely house in a good part of town. Yes, it’s a very nice life. Until one morning Nate comes downstairs to find Sinead gone and a note lying on the kitchen table, listing all the many things that Nate does wrong - or doesn’t do at all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wrong title, but great story!!
- By Laurie on 05-21-19
By: Fiona Gibson, and others
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Make or Break
- By: Catherine Bennetto
- Narrated by: Anna Acton
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 264
Jess, a 29-year-old Londoner with a Kate Beckett fringe and a tendency for dramatics, gets taken on a surprise trip by her long-term boyfriend, Pete, to attend her best friend’s last-minute wedding in South Africa. Jess imagines sun, sand, wine and safaris. And returning to London with an ethically mined diamond on her left hand... But this holiday isn’t set to be quite the fairy tale Jess has planned. Suddenly she finds her world tilting on its axis, and things are only set to get worse when Jess returns home....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Excruciating. Save yourself.
- By Kristyn Rose on 05-11-19
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The Fame Game
- By: Lauren Conrad
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
In Hollywood, fame can be found on every corner and behind any door. You just have to know where to look for it. Nineteen-year-old Madison Parker made a name for herself as best frenemy of nice-girl-next-door Jane Roberts on the hot reality show L.A. Candy. Now Madison's ready for her turn in the spotlight and she'll stop at nothing to get it. Sure, she's the star of a new show, but with backstabbing friends and suspicious family members trying to bring her down, Madison has her work cut out for her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best narrators I've ever heard!
- By Kindle Customer on 05-09-17
By: Lauren Conrad
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Jack of Diamonds
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 26 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,393
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,225
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,219
Born and raised in a poor, working-class family in Toronto, Jack Spayd is the son of an unhappy marriage. After being taken under the wing of "Miss Frostbite", the owner of a local jazz club, Jack becomes a gifted musician, playing piano and harmonica. Fame and the allure of gambling takes him to Vegas, and prospects of fortune take him to the Belgian Congo, where he's heard it's possible to earn big money working in the most dangerous parts of the local copper mines.
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4 out of 5 stars
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On the Day we lost Bryce
- By Brodie on 11-23-12
By: Bryce Courtenay
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The Brightest Star in the Sky
- A Novel
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Caitriona Keyes
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 79
The Brightest Star in the Sky follows seven neighbors whose lives become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their Dublin townhouse with the intent of changing at least one of their lives. But what will this metamorphosis be and who will the sprite choose?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible sound quality, worse narration
- By Jan on 02-23-10
By: Marian Keyes
What listeners say about The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries, Part 1: Making It
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- Lynsey
- 09-05-13
Edge of your seat listening.
Whether you've read the kindle edition of The Rock n Roll Diaries or not this audio book is a definite must buy, from start to finish it is edge of your seat listening, with plenty of laugh out loud and sing'a'long moments and even tear jerking moments. Jamie Scallion has done an outstanding job narrating and really brings the story to life, portraying each characters personality brilliantly, the background noises give you a real feeling of being inside the story and travelling along the rockateers journey with them, the music snippets you get to hear are totally amazing and i for one am hoping the full versions will be released soon.
I can't wait for book two.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Frances
- 02-18-14
Fun, pure and simple
Loved the individual voices and the diary entries. The lads grow and mature over the course of the story--but not too much. Looking forward to Part 2.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Naomi
- 10-28-13
My Rock n Roll Diaries Experience
Where does The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries, Part 1: Making It rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
From the very beginning I was drawn into the story. By the end I felt like I 'knew' each character. I love how each one was unique and the author's descriptions made it possible to actually 'see' them all in my mind. Even though the band didn't face a lot of the obstacles new bands starting out do, they each had to overcome personal issues in order to take advantage of this 'once in a lifetime' opportunity. It also shows that no matter what your background, a passion and love for music can bring you together.I LOVE how the audio edition included 'The Rockateers' songs in the story. I also LOVED the narration by the author. I can't wait to see what happens next!!!
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