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Groupie #1-2
Groupie/Rock Star Bundle
The first two books of the Groupie Rubenesque romance series by author Ginger Voight, is now offered in one economical bundle! Join Andy Foster as she navigates the tumultuous relationship with Giovanni Carnevale, the charismatic lead singer of "Dreaming in Blue." This bad boy rocker keeps Andy under his seductive control for more than three years as their relationship faces off stalkers, groupies, opportunists and all the other trappings of fame.
This sizzling contemporary romance series stars a full-figured beauty and the man that wants her, but may never commit. It's a rock and roll fantasy come true for any fan who has ever contemplated the possibilities of nabbing the guy you must share with the world.
Book One, Groupie:
Andy Foster never expected lightning to strike when she met the enigmatic frontman of an up-and-coming rock band, but Giovanni Carnevale left her thunderstruck. At first it is easy to use her freelance writing career as an excuse to indulge the steamy flirtation from city to city. As she gets ever closer to making her lascivious fantasies a reality, however, she finds herself entangled in the fake and sometimes dangerous world of celebrity where nothing is as it seems, including the celebrities themselves.
She hangs on to find something real amidst the illusion, while Giovanni balances what he wants against what he fears most. Over three years they come together and blow apart with the same kind of combustible passion. This keeps them orbiting in the others' stratosphere despite new relationships and bitter betrayals. They are bound together by something they can't fight, something that draws the ire of another fan determined to claim Vanni all to herself.
Unknowingly they all race toward a dramatic moment of truth that will leave two people injured, and one dead, with a twist of an ending you may never see coming.
Book Two, Rock Star:
In the second book in the series, readers get insight into the mind of the romantic hero, Giovanni Carnevale, as he reaches the pinnacle of success as a world wide rock star. Everyone wants a piece of him, but all he wants is the one thing he can't have. He's angry and he's entitled, with ample opportunity to make really bad decisions. The combination proves explosive.
Andy must watch from the sidelines as her beloved Vanni falls victim to grifters, scandals and alcoholism thanks to this self-destructive behavior. Things come to an emotional head when his estranged father comes on the scene just when Vanni thinks things can't get any worse.
Darkness shadows Graham Baxter as he begins his journey as a paraplegic. The powerful mogul bitterly handles this new vulnerability by lashing out at the people who could help him the most. He needs Andy more than ever, pulling her in yet another hopeless direction. Andy is put in the impossible situation of keeping the most important promise she has ever made, or saving the man that she can't help but love.
Author Ginger Voight turns up the scandals, secrets, passion and heartbreak to 11. Flawed characters face excess and all the pitfalls that entails.
Disclaimer: This series features a hero you might find you love to hate, a heroine you may want to slap, and frustrating triangles with dubious fidelity. Those who cannot abide "cheaters," who need their bad boys to be mostly good, or who must have a HEA at the end of each book, may be advised to look elsewhere.
For everyone else, book 3 (Mogul) releases in February 2013, to bring this roller coaster back into the station.
This sizzling contemporary romance series stars a full-figured beauty and the man that wants her, but may never commit. It's a rock and roll fantasy come true for any fan who has ever contemplated the possibilities of nabbing the guy you must share with the world.
Book One, Groupie:
Andy Foster never expected lightning to strike when she met the enigmatic frontman of an up-and-coming rock band, but Giovanni Carnevale left her thunderstruck. At first it is easy to use her freelance writing career as an excuse to indulge the steamy flirtation from city to city. As she gets ever closer to making her lascivious fantasies a reality, however, she finds herself entangled in the fake and sometimes dangerous world of celebrity where nothing is as it seems, including the celebrities themselves.
She hangs on to find something real amidst the illusion, while Giovanni balances what he wants against what he fears most. Over three years they come together and blow apart with the same kind of combustible passion. This keeps them orbiting in the others' stratosphere despite new relationships and bitter betrayals. They are bound together by something they can't fight, something that draws the ire of another fan determined to claim Vanni all to herself.
Unknowingly they all race toward a dramatic moment of truth that will leave two people injured, and one dead, with a twist of an ending you may never see coming.
Book Two, Rock Star:
In the second book in the series, readers get insight into the mind of the romantic hero, Giovanni Carnevale, as he reaches the pinnacle of success as a world wide rock star. Everyone wants a piece of him, but all he wants is the one thing he can't have. He's angry and he's entitled, with ample opportunity to make really bad decisions. The combination proves explosive.
Andy must watch from the sidelines as her beloved Vanni falls victim to grifters, scandals and alcoholism thanks to this self-destructive behavior. Things come to an emotional head when his estranged father comes on the scene just when Vanni thinks things can't get any worse.
Darkness shadows Graham Baxter as he begins his journey as a paraplegic. The powerful mogul bitterly handles this new vulnerability by lashing out at the people who could help him the most. He needs Andy more than ever, pulling her in yet another hopeless direction. Andy is put in the impossible situation of keeping the most important promise she has ever made, or saving the man that she can't help but love.
Author Ginger Voight turns up the scandals, secrets, passion and heartbreak to 11. Flawed characters face excess and all the pitfalls that entails.
Disclaimer: This series features a hero you might find you love to hate, a heroine you may want to slap, and frustrating triangles with dubious fidelity. Those who cannot abide "cheaters," who need their bad boys to be mostly good, or who must have a HEA at the end of each book, may be advised to look elsewhere.
For everyone else, book 3 (Mogul) releases in February 2013, to bring this roller coaster back into the station.
632 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 23, 2012
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About the author
Ginger Voight
60 books711 followersGinger Voight is a screenwriter and bestselling author with over twenty published titles in fiction and nonfiction. She covers everything from travel to politics in nonfiction, as well as romance, paranormal, and dark, “ripped from the headlines” topics like Dirty Little Secrets.
Ginger discovered her love for writing in sixth grade, courtesy of a Halloween assignment. From then on, writing became a place of solace, reflection, and security. This was never more true than when she found herself homeless in L.A. at the age of nineteen. There, she wrote her first novel, longhand on notebook paper, while living out of her car.
In 1995, after she lost her nine-day-old son, she worked through her grief by writing the story that would eventually become The Fullerton Family Saga.
In 2011, she embarked on a new journey—to publish romance novels starring heroines who look more like the average American woman. These "Rubenesque" romances have developed a following thanks to her bestselling Groupie series. Other titles, such as the highly-rated New Adult series, Fierce, tap into the "reality-TV" preoccupation in American entertainment, which gives her contemporary stories a current, pop culture edge.
Known for writing gut-twisting angst, Ginger isn’t afraid to push the envelope with characters who are perfectly imperfect. Whether rich, poor, sweet, selfish, gay, straight, plus-size or svelte, her characters are beautifully flawed and three-dimensional. They populate her lavish fictional landscapes and teach us more about the real world in which we live simply through their interactions with each other. Ginger’s goal with every book is to give the reader a little bit more than they were expecting, told through stories they'll never forget.
Ginger discovered her love for writing in sixth grade, courtesy of a Halloween assignment. From then on, writing became a place of solace, reflection, and security. This was never more true than when she found herself homeless in L.A. at the age of nineteen. There, she wrote her first novel, longhand on notebook paper, while living out of her car.
In 1995, after she lost her nine-day-old son, she worked through her grief by writing the story that would eventually become The Fullerton Family Saga.
In 2011, she embarked on a new journey—to publish romance novels starring heroines who look more like the average American woman. These "Rubenesque" romances have developed a following thanks to her bestselling Groupie series. Other titles, such as the highly-rated New Adult series, Fierce, tap into the "reality-TV" preoccupation in American entertainment, which gives her contemporary stories a current, pop culture edge.
Known for writing gut-twisting angst, Ginger isn’t afraid to push the envelope with characters who are perfectly imperfect. Whether rich, poor, sweet, selfish, gay, straight, plus-size or svelte, her characters are beautifully flawed and three-dimensional. They populate her lavish fictional landscapes and teach us more about the real world in which we live simply through their interactions with each other. Ginger’s goal with every book is to give the reader a little bit more than they were expecting, told through stories they'll never forget.
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August 12, 2013
Amazing, braindamaging plot (although - same old game, new players)... My eyes are burning, I have a a headache, but I continue reading non-stop. I am in love with this series... I am on book number three... I am blaming Ginger Voight...
GIOVANNI CARNEVALE... Because of you, I watched all videos with Steve Perry and The Journey that I could find on YouTube....
GIOVANNI CARNEVALE... Because of you, I watched all videos with Steve Perry and The Journey that I could find on YouTube....
"He wore skin-tight leather pants that nearly showed me what religion he was, but no shirt to cover his six-pack abs he no doubt did a thousand crunches - upside down - to maintain. His skin was tanned and golden, and his long brown hair fell like molten chocolate halfway down his back. He shook that mane full of crazy waves around his head and across his bare shoulders while he clomped around in heavy biker boots. Chains dangled from his belt loops, and he wore leather cuff bracelets on either wrist, with silver rings on each finger and nails painted black. ...I was totally digging his alternative look, which made him seem like a taller, more muscular, Italian version of Chris Angel..... But it was his voice coupled with his Robert Plant/rock god persona that really sealed the deal for me. Music was his foreplay..."
"Giovanni was pure sex... I was just been hit by lightning - and his name was Giovanni Carnevale."
Andy: "My heart raced. My blood pumped. Little butterflies all wore wooden shoes and happily clog-danced in the pit of my stomach." "He had tattooed himself underneath my flesh and onto my soul. He was stitched so deeply in my heart I didn't know how to breath without him."
Vanni to Andy: "I want a lot of things. Success. Acclaim. Happiness. You..."
Graham about Vanni: "This other man is a firework. Exciting. Explosive. Dynamic. I'm the safe, old shoe."
"ALWAYS LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE..."
December 19, 2012
Since this book was a two-fer, I'm combining both reviews. I hated these books so much, but I think I may have loved them. Hence, the 4 stars.
So these books were basically about a writer and love-affair with a rising star. It was not an easy one where they get their happily ever after.
Andy, the writer, ohhhhhh how I really didn't like her. First of all, her personality was about as exciting as a poopy diaper. No growth nothing. She just let Vanni continuously walk all over her dumb ass. She was everyone's doormat. Everyone told her "Don't go after the rock'n'roll guy." She told them she wouldn't. First red flag, beezy was a liar. She lied to everyone, herself included. Thatwas the most irritating to me. In Groupie, she was all about "flaunt it if you got it" and then when you move on to Rock Star, she tries to be the mother hen? I don't get it. Is it because Kat made her feel inadequate? Anyways, she is constantly whining in Groupie about how 'her man' is always with someone else and she is the other woman. That rubbed me the wrong way too. She has a man handed to her on a golden platter that could and wants to make all her dreams come true yet she tosses him aside like yesterdays's garbage? I wanted to kick her the first time her and Graham met.
Vanni, where do I begin on this rock'n'roll dud? Oh that's right. I called him a dud. I didn't see him as a rockstar. Kudos to the author for pulling that off. I saw him as a loser with too much money, opportunities, and entitlement being handed to him. I get he has thousands of women pining over him and stroking his ego, but why is Andy the one that brings him back to Earth? Kat was doing the SAME THING? Did Andy have like a magic vajingle that granted wishes or something?! I really liked him about 1/3 of the way through Rock Star. He was finally that brooding, dark sex pot. Even if he was drunk all the time.Then it went down hill from there... He became super whiny and he slipped from the best to a major pest. I found myself skipping a lot of his parts because I was tired of reading the filler of "What is Andy doing now? Is she humping Graham for this or for that? Well fugg her... Oh her? I miss her. Her is Andy." And it would be a never ending cycle of that. Some of the stuff he says to her too bothered me. Like if any man said any of that stuff to me, he would earn a swift kick in his crown jewels no questions asked.
So the characters were rather flat. The only time I found myself laughing was at the psychopath's quips about Andy not being good enough, because they were hysterical. I did like how the events unfolded. It was like a trainwreck; you just couldn't turn your eyes away. I found myself saying "HELL NO!" to when Holly (which I already dispise alone that this character was named Holly because that name is dear to my heart) started making her way in.
All in all, I think these books should be read more for the unfortunate chain of events and bad timing rather than the characters.
So these books were basically about a writer and love-affair with a rising star. It was not an easy one where they get their happily ever after.
Andy, the writer, ohhhhhh how I really didn't like her. First of all, her personality was about as exciting as a poopy diaper. No growth nothing. She just let Vanni continuously walk all over her dumb ass. She was everyone's doormat. Everyone told her "Don't go after the rock'n'roll guy." She told them she wouldn't. First red flag, beezy was a liar. She lied to everyone, herself included. Thatwas the most irritating to me. In Groupie, she was all about "flaunt it if you got it" and then when you move on to Rock Star, she tries to be the mother hen? I don't get it. Is it because Kat made her feel inadequate? Anyways, she is constantly whining in Groupie about how 'her man' is always with someone else and she is the other woman. That rubbed me the wrong way too. She has a man handed to her on a golden platter that could and wants to make all her dreams come true yet she tosses him aside like yesterdays's garbage? I wanted to kick her the first time her and Graham met.
Vanni, where do I begin on this rock'n'roll dud? Oh that's right. I called him a dud. I didn't see him as a rockstar. Kudos to the author for pulling that off. I saw him as a loser with too much money, opportunities, and entitlement being handed to him. I get he has thousands of women pining over him and stroking his ego, but why is Andy the one that brings him back to Earth? Kat was doing the SAME THING? Did Andy have like a magic vajingle that granted wishes or something?! I really liked him about 1/3 of the way through Rock Star. He was finally that brooding, dark sex pot. Even if he was drunk all the time.Then it went down hill from there... He became super whiny and he slipped from the best to a major pest. I found myself skipping a lot of his parts because I was tired of reading the filler of "What is Andy doing now? Is she humping Graham for this or for that? Well fugg her... Oh her? I miss her. Her is Andy." And it would be a never ending cycle of that. Some of the stuff he says to her too bothered me. Like if any man said any of that stuff to me, he would earn a swift kick in his crown jewels no questions asked.
So the characters were rather flat. The only time I found myself laughing was at the psychopath's quips about Andy not being good enough, because they were hysterical. I did like how the events unfolded. It was like a trainwreck; you just couldn't turn your eyes away. I found myself saying "HELL NO!" to when Holly (which I already dispise alone that this character was named Holly because that name is dear to my heart) started making her way in.
All in all, I think these books should be read more for the unfortunate chain of events and bad timing rather than the characters.
January 16, 2013
THANKS goes out to Brandee's Book Endings whom highly recommended this series. I have to admit it took me almost a week to read these books, wish I could have just found the time to read it all in one day. It's a series that makes you want to yell and hate the characters, at times when I had to stop reading I just wanted to slam my kindle down and call these people stupid and crazy. I was angry at Andy with all her bad decisions, really chick? I was angry at Vannie and his inability to get his crap together, really man?
This story is about Andy who is a writer and does PR and fan reviews. Vanni is the lead singer of an uprising new rock band and stardom. At first meet there is an electric connection between them. Story goes on about 2 people wanting to be together, there love for each other (privetly they do due to the media), however the world of stardom doesn't permit them too, everything works against them throughout the entire books, thus why the UGH!!!!
So many emotions, so many rollercoasters, ups and downs, loads of selfishness too, but leaves you wanting more. At times it dragged out, well actually lots of times it dragged on and on, however I highly recommend! You won't be disappointed.
Quote from another review that I agree with: RockStar: I felt this was a little slower than Groupie. The story is there, the writing is wonderful, but there were times I could set my kindle down and walk away for hours or days, which I didn't like.
The story definitely does NOT disappoint though. There are new characters introduced which make the storyline more interesting. Just when you think the story is going one way it goes another. There is a cliffhanger, so be prepared to purchase Mogul RIGHT AWAY when it's released!!
Both stories are defiantly worth reading! You'll be in for a good read.
This story is about Andy who is a writer and does PR and fan reviews. Vanni is the lead singer of an uprising new rock band and stardom. At first meet there is an electric connection between them. Story goes on about 2 people wanting to be together, there love for each other (privetly they do due to the media), however the world of stardom doesn't permit them too, everything works against them throughout the entire books, thus why the UGH!!!!
So many emotions, so many rollercoasters, ups and downs, loads of selfishness too, but leaves you wanting more. At times it dragged out, well actually lots of times it dragged on and on, however I highly recommend! You won't be disappointed.
Quote from another review that I agree with: RockStar: I felt this was a little slower than Groupie. The story is there, the writing is wonderful, but there were times I could set my kindle down and walk away for hours or days, which I didn't like.
The story definitely does NOT disappoint though. There are new characters introduced which make the storyline more interesting. Just when you think the story is going one way it goes another. There is a cliffhanger, so be prepared to purchase Mogul RIGHT AWAY when it's released!!
Both stories are defiantly worth reading! You'll be in for a good read.
February 5, 2013
I loved both of these books they had me hook line and sinker right from the beginning.
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I don't think I have had so many emotions at one time and never have I felt so nauseous the angst is definitely there and that is one thing I tend to be a gravitate to. I love when you fell like you have been thrown into the book like for a short moment you are living the lives of the characters that makes it so much better and this I def. felt .
I was up and down like a friggin roller coaster, i was mad, sad, my heart hurt and my anger was through the roof just trying to figure things out. I caught myself being so caught in the moment I was asking why or screamong, you have got to be kidding and that of course was not silently. I saw the looks people gave me but who cares.
I devoured these books and even though there is def. a huge cliffhanger at the end knowing there will be a third book helps. At the end my heart to feel like it hit my stomach, i was nauseous. oh the wait is gonna do crazy things to me as I try to figure out in my mind what is gonna happen next.
If I have to chose well that's fine I chose team vanni.
Ginger, although you are killing me, it is okay I will anxiously await the mogul. I know you are going to slowly kill me. I dread reading it in a way but I know I have to. I know I am gonna love it but I have to mentally prepare myself for the emotions I know I am going to endure.
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HAPPY!!!!
I don't think I have had so many emotions at one time and never have I felt so nauseous the angst is definitely there and that is one thing I tend to be a gravitate to. I love when you fell like you have been thrown into the book like for a short moment you are living the lives of the characters that makes it so much better and this I def. felt .
I was up and down like a friggin roller coaster, i was mad, sad, my heart hurt and my anger was through the roof just trying to figure things out. I caught myself being so caught in the moment I was asking why or screamong, you have got to be kidding and that of course was not silently. I saw the looks people gave me but who cares.
I devoured these books and even though there is def. a huge cliffhanger at the end knowing there will be a third book helps. At the end my heart to feel like it hit my stomach, i was nauseous. oh the wait is gonna do crazy things to me as I try to figure out in my mind what is gonna happen next.
If I have to chose well that's fine I chose team vanni.
Ginger, although you are killing me, it is okay I will anxiously await the mogul. I know you are going to slowly kill me. I dread reading it in a way but I know I have to. I know I am gonna love it but I have to mentally prepare myself for the emotions I know I am going to endure.
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March 5, 2013
This book had me going back and forward. I really didn't know which way to look there was so much going on that. Was tired from reading. I got so tired of Andi and Vanni going back and forth, but in the end they finally got it together. Vanni was such a whore that it was crazy and Andy keep letting everything be ok instead of saying what she really felt. Overall though it was a great book.
September 11, 2013
Well where do I start? This book pissed me off, it frustrated me but yet I couldn't put it down. They both needed to grow up. Overall I was hooked...I would recommend it just the different emotions you get in the whole 3 books, Is enough to send someone grey.
February 25, 2013
A wonderful tale of love and struggle!!!! I love all three books couldn't put them down!!!
March 10, 2013
Beyond 5 stars!
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January 6, 2013Half way through I decided this book just aren't my thing...
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