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The Brightsiders

By: Jen Wilde
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
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A teen rockstar has to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the spotlight after being labeled the latest celebrity trainwreck in Jen Wilde's quirky and utterly relatable novel.

As a rock star drummer in the hit band the Brightsiders, Emmy King's life should be perfect. But there's nothing the paparazzi love more than watching a celebrity crash and burn. When a night of partying lands Emmy in hospital, she's branded the latest tabloid train wreck.

Luckily, Emmy has her friends and bandmates, including the super-swoonworthy Alfie, to help her pick up the pieces of her life. She knows hooking up with a band member is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Keep. Kissing.

Will the inevitable fallout turn her into a clickbait scandal (again)? Or will she find the strength to stand on her own?

Jen Wilde, author of Queens of Geek, which Seventeen called "the geeky, queer book of our dreams", is back with a brand new cast of highly diverse and relatable characters for her fans to fall in love with.

©2018 Jen Wilde (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. LGBTQ+ Literature & Fiction Romance Celebrity Funny Geeky

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It's good to have some lgbtqia+ representation in books.
It Is a little cheesy in places. There is band mate drama.

It's an ok read (⭐⭐⭐) ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Easy to listen to. Good for teenagers given the main characters are emotionally young. Friendship and love are the key subjects; band life is just a framework.

Cute

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The overall story is fairly good with a great message but the narrator speaks at a relentless pace, which she hardly varies, and does not bring any much needed warmth to the characters. She is quite good at the different voices of the various characters but her singing is really, really bad. The song's tunes - such as they are - are terrible and the lyrics - supposedly by an edgy, punk band - sound very bland and mainstream at best. Whoever produced this audiobook did not think it through properly which is a shame.

Good story for LGBTQ+ young people & friends

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I'm probably slightly older than the demographic of this book, but i really enjoyed it. The characters were well written and described well.

I will defo check out some other books by this author.

Really good

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I was trying to love this book and the first half was enjoyable but it just got unbearable towards the middle. I was shocked that this book was only 5 years old. The references have aged like milk and made me cringe more often than coming off as relatable. The singing was annoying considering I was listening at 1.5 speed, would have preferred that the lyrics were spoken so I could listen to them. I felt like characters were thrown in just to tick a diversity box and they would make statements about racism or double standards but it was just thrown in and not explored.

Cringe

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