Buddy's Blues

Buddy Trilogy #3

by Nigel Hinton

The third book in the trilogy about Buddy Clark. Buddy's band, "The Bosses", have had one big hit and they are on the brink of even bigger success when drugs, jealousy and an accident suddenly split them apart. At the same time Buddy’s complicated love life is a total mess. His dad believes that a holiday to visit Elvis’ home, Graceland, will take his mind off things. In the musical heartland of the USA Buddy rediscovers his talent for writing and singing and he also finds true love. Life is great. But what else does Fate have in store?

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 1995

About the author

Nigel Hinton was born and educated in London. After two years in advertising, he worked as an English teacher for nine years. His first novel, Collision Course (winner of the Dutch Silver Pen Award) was written as a result of a challenge from one of his pupils. He began teaching part-time and also worked as a professional actor before concentrating on his writing.

Nigel is the ever-popular author the Beaver Towers series of stories for primary school readers (which has been adapted for TV), and, for secondary school readers, he wrote the Buddy trilogy. His novel The Finders won him the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Award.

Reviews

[Bianca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this book very recently.
Read Buddy and Buddy's song as a teenager.
Came across this book and bought it because I think I wanted to know how it would all end.
Was a bit chocked by the ending and a little sad too.

[John Powell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent end to a trilogy that remains a favourite in my memory - reading them in secondary school. Sad in parts it's an emotional end!

[itrat · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 | what in the actual hell.

this had none of the magic that was there in the first book & part of the second book. it just felt like buddy's character had changed so much & i know that a lot of it was because he grew up, but he just way out of character.

i really loved that he reunited with charmaine & julius, even if jules was a quite cold. also what the hell was that ending?? buddy has always had a fear of dying at the same age as his namesake, buddy holly, and you kill him off at that same age?? that is genuinely so lazy.

it’s an awful & miserable way to end the novel, especially with charmaine dying as well. i refuse to accept it, this is one of the few times i really think the series would've been better off ending after the first book.

[Angelina Gasparre · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ending stabbed me in the heart and twisted the knife.