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Sinners & Rock Star Omnibus
SINNERS
Sunday Simmons and Charlie Brick came to Hollywood to make a movie. They live off their looks and rely on their agents. Today they're stars, so why worry about tomorrow? They've got money, success and adoring fans. Fans like Herbert Lincoln Jefferson, a Hollywood chauffeur with perverse sexual fantasies - whose biggest dream is meeting Sunday Simmons...Sinners peels away the glittering facade of Tinseltown like never before.
ROCK STAR
Rock Star blows the lid off the hard-hitting lifestyles of today's music stars. Kris Phoenix - the legendary and wildly sexy guitar hero. Bobby Mondella - black soul superstar with a past. Rafealla - an exotically beautiful girl who comes between them with a vengeance. Rock Star takes you on a dangerous trip through the jungle of broken dreams and blackmail, hit records and hit men...a jungle of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Rock Star is a love story that burns. Feel the heat...
Sunday Simmons and Charlie Brick came to Hollywood to make a movie. They live off their looks and rely on their agents. Today they're stars, so why worry about tomorrow? They've got money, success and adoring fans. Fans like Herbert Lincoln Jefferson, a Hollywood chauffeur with perverse sexual fantasies - whose biggest dream is meeting Sunday Simmons...Sinners peels away the glittering facade of Tinseltown like never before.
ROCK STAR
Rock Star blows the lid off the hard-hitting lifestyles of today's music stars. Kris Phoenix - the legendary and wildly sexy guitar hero. Bobby Mondella - black soul superstar with a past. Rafealla - an exotically beautiful girl who comes between them with a vengeance. Rock Star takes you on a dangerous trip through the jungle of broken dreams and blackmail, hit records and hit men...a jungle of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Rock Star is a love story that burns. Feel the heat...
- GenresChick Lit
743 pages, Paperback
First published July 29, 2002
141 people want to read
About the author
Jackie Collins
227 books2,703 followersThere have been many imitators, but only Jackie Collins can tell you what really goes on in the fastest lane of all. From Beverly Hills bedrooms to a raunchy prowl along the streets of Hollywood; from glittering rock parties and concerts to stretch limos and the mansions of power brokers-Jackie Collins chronicles the real truth from the inside looking out.
Jackie Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine. With over 500 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with some 30 New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling novelists. She is known for giving her readers an unrivalled insider's knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous, and infamous. "I write about real people in disguise," she says. "If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre."
Jackie Collins died of breast cancer Saturday, September 19, 2015. Jackie Collins, who had kept her illness secret, said recently that she believed in an afterlife, that she had no regrets and that she had emulated Frank Sinatra in that “I did it my way.”
Visit Jackie's website: www.jackiecollins.com
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/JackieJCollins
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www.facebook.com/jackiecollins and Pinterest:
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Jackie Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine. With over 500 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with some 30 New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling novelists. She is known for giving her readers an unrivalled insider's knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous, and infamous. "I write about real people in disguise," she says. "If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre."
Jackie Collins died of breast cancer Saturday, September 19, 2015. Jackie Collins, who had kept her illness secret, said recently that she believed in an afterlife, that she had no regrets and that she had emulated Frank Sinatra in that “I did it my way.”
Visit Jackie's website: www.jackiecollins.com
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/JackieJCollins
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/jackiecollins and Pinterest:
www.pinterest.com/jackiejcollins
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October 6, 2020
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July 21, 2022
Given the reviews for the books individually already but I enjoyed reading this omnibus, despite the fact that it took me quite a while.
June 24, 2015
ROCK STAR
I read this entire book in one afternoon. 450-some pages of glorious tackiness. It was a good way to spend a day off. :)
Rock Star chronicles the rise to fame of three singers: Bobby Mondella, a smooth soul singer who's trying to make a comeback after being blinded in an accident; Rafealla, an overnight sensation with a sultry lounge-singer's voice; and Kris Phoenix, rock idol second only to Springsteen.
The book is set in the afternoon and evening of a big party where the three protagonists are performing, but told mostly in flashbacks arranged chronologically that detail the last twenty years of each character's life. I found this structure very effective - the flashback chapters really give you a feel for the characters and their struggles, while the current-day chapters provide a framework for the flashbacks. The reader knows where everyone is going to end up, but not how they get there or why they feel the way they do about each other - allusions to past events are made during the current-day chapters, and then explored further in flashbacks later in the book - so there's quite a few mysteries that kept me intrigued.
A lot of people slate Jackie Collins, and call her untalented and her books trashy. Well, they are trashy, but untalented is an unfair accusation, IMO. Her books are easy to read, pleasant junk food for the brain, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. And she certainly has a talent for drawing the reader in, making you root for the heroes and hiss at the villains, making you care about these people - even though you'll probably forget all about them the next day. I don't find her books memorable, but I certainly find them entertaining at the time, and this one more than most. 3.5 - 4 stars.
SINNERS
I'm a bit dopey for not reviewing this as soon as I read it, because in the two months or so since I finished it, I've basically forgotten everything about it. Which probably says more about the book than my review could.
Sinners tells the story of Sunday Simmons, a new and highly-rated Hollywood actress ("starlet" somehow seems too insubstantial a word for her), Charlie Brick, an aging comedy actor from London, and Herbert Lincoln Jefferson, a psycho who starts stalking Sunday. Of course - because where would a Jackie Collins novel be without psycho stalkers?
What I do remember of the book is that I really, really liked Sunday. I thought she was terrific. Beautiful but not vain, intelligent but not an intellectual snob, a little aloof but not cold. She's probably one of my favourite Jackie Collins heroines, and I wish that her book was more memorable.
Charlie I was less sure about - while he amused me, he also felt like one of those characters who makes a lot of his own problems, and people like that drive me mad.
I wish I could write a better review of the book, but I can't unless I read it again, and that's just not going to happen. It was an interesting enough read once - twice would be pushing it. 3 stars.
I read this entire book in one afternoon. 450-some pages of glorious tackiness. It was a good way to spend a day off. :)
Rock Star chronicles the rise to fame of three singers: Bobby Mondella, a smooth soul singer who's trying to make a comeback after being blinded in an accident; Rafealla, an overnight sensation with a sultry lounge-singer's voice; and Kris Phoenix, rock idol second only to Springsteen.
The book is set in the afternoon and evening of a big party where the three protagonists are performing, but told mostly in flashbacks arranged chronologically that detail the last twenty years of each character's life. I found this structure very effective - the flashback chapters really give you a feel for the characters and their struggles, while the current-day chapters provide a framework for the flashbacks. The reader knows where everyone is going to end up, but not how they get there or why they feel the way they do about each other - allusions to past events are made during the current-day chapters, and then explored further in flashbacks later in the book - so there's quite a few mysteries that kept me intrigued.
A lot of people slate Jackie Collins, and call her untalented and her books trashy. Well, they are trashy, but untalented is an unfair accusation, IMO. Her books are easy to read, pleasant junk food for the brain, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. And she certainly has a talent for drawing the reader in, making you root for the heroes and hiss at the villains, making you care about these people - even though you'll probably forget all about them the next day. I don't find her books memorable, but I certainly find them entertaining at the time, and this one more than most. 3.5 - 4 stars.
SINNERS
I'm a bit dopey for not reviewing this as soon as I read it, because in the two months or so since I finished it, I've basically forgotten everything about it. Which probably says more about the book than my review could.
Sinners tells the story of Sunday Simmons, a new and highly-rated Hollywood actress ("starlet" somehow seems too insubstantial a word for her), Charlie Brick, an aging comedy actor from London, and Herbert Lincoln Jefferson, a psycho who starts stalking Sunday. Of course - because where would a Jackie Collins novel be without psycho stalkers?
What I do remember of the book is that I really, really liked Sunday. I thought she was terrific. Beautiful but not vain, intelligent but not an intellectual snob, a little aloof but not cold. She's probably one of my favourite Jackie Collins heroines, and I wish that her book was more memorable.
Charlie I was less sure about - while he amused me, he also felt like one of those characters who makes a lot of his own problems, and people like that drive me mad.
I wish I could write a better review of the book, but I can't unless I read it again, and that's just not going to happen. It was an interesting enough read once - twice would be pushing it. 3 stars.
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