X-It
LOVE IS A DRUG. In 1980 NYC, eighteen-year-old J.J. Buckingham is an uptight trendoid. Working as a mannequin painter and a counter girl, she moonlights as a creature of the nightclubs. J.J. falls for aloof, crazy-talented artist and bicycle messenger X-It. In order to win his love, she succumbs...
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LOVE IS A DRUG. In 1980 NYC, eighteen-year-old J.J. Buckingham is an uptight trendoid. Working as a mannequin painter and a counter girl, she moonlights as a creature of the nightclubs. J.J. falls for aloof, crazy-talented artist and bicycle messenger X-It. In order to win his love, she succumbs to the dark machinations of drug dealer Marko Voodoo. X-It will love her if she's the queen of underground Manhattan, right? Her plan backfires with horrendous consequences. Can J.J. scrap her way out of a maze of drugs, clubs, and danger before it's too late?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780985130718 (0985130717)
ASIN: 985130717
Publish date: March 26th 2012
Publisher: Paper Grove Publishing
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
This is very punk rock and not in the candy-coated nostalgia sense, but in the dirty, dye-stained world of vaseline and aqua net. Even though this is set in 1980, it easily could range into the mid 90's. The club scene, drug addiction, music and underground hipness of punk rock influence reached ove...
3.5 star X-it for me was a nice fast paced book that I read in one sitting. I really liked how J.J. tried and did what she needed to do to better her life. She had her setbacks like everyone but in the end did what was best for her. I did enjoy this book but was a little hard reading the drug add...
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