Yet another accidentally-stumbled-upon book/series. At least this one is by the same author as the last? This is J.R. Gray's Pretty Broken series. The third book is titled "Pretty Wreck."
["Alister Fox
The pretty boy. The loner. Old Hollywood.
I had all kinds of names as the least known member of the most famous band in the world.
Behind all the hype and masks, I'm just a Pretty Wreck.
No one knows the disaster I am, my secrets hidden behind style and a smile.
I've been running for as long as I can remember, but I can't get away from the gilded cage of fame.
I don't know how much longer I'll be able to keep it together.
I'm forced to go back on tour to play the summer concert circuit, and so is the guy I've avoided for two years.
Ten years older than me, he's the bassist for the hottest punk band.
He beds a different girl every night, but while the rest of the world slept, he'd crawl into my bed.
He's the only person who has ever felt safe, but he's straight, so I ran from him, too.
Now I have to face him and it's all unraveling.
I'm afraid I'll be the first to break, bringing our fame crashing down.
My words have gotten me in trouble for as long as I can remember.
They got me suspended from eighth grade and banned from online forums, but they also made us famous beyond our wildest dreams.
Poetry and scorn.
My deepest thoughts, raw and exposed for the fans to consume.
They spawned rumors and ruin, and they’re about to do worse.
He hasn’t spoken to me in years.
But our secret keeps bleeding into my songs.
My next album is a ticking time bomb and when it hits, it will be the end of us.
What will be left but a pretty wreck?"]
Okay, in the last book, we say fuck to Dave. I'd like a loooooooong list of fucks and fuck off and fuck yous to Alexander. Honestly. I thought I hated him in the first book, or at least didn't understand him/his motives. No. Fuck that, fuck him. And, as I'm writing this, I'm only 20% into the book, so it better not get any worse (...*sigh* I know it will).
...it did. It got worse. A few more fucks to Alexander, please. Like, 99.9999% of the Trigger Warnings below are about/because of him.
I just…the opening scenes made me dislike Kingsley before we got to know him and his relationship with Lis, and part of me hates that it was there and included, because it spoiled his first impressions. His own POV very shortly after quickly changed my opinion, but it was a little jarring.
These two…they’re a lot. They’re a little toxic to each other, pushing away only to be upset when they’re alone. Though, love and heartache and childhood trauma will do that to you. Likely, without the help of fucking Alexander (fuck. him), they found their way to a happily ever after (well for now, the band is well and truly in some shit—because of fucking Alexander—and we won’t have final HEAs until the series ends (I just hope Alexander gets a big karma punch in the face).
Also, I need an angst break. My head and my heart hurt..And my anxiety.
Trigger Warnings: major descriptions of depression, drug use, talk of suicide, assault, domestic abuse, domestic abuse isn't always physical, blackmail, lying, gaslighting, manipulation, and more
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