It’s a messy book with a lot of fractured relationships and understandably poor communication skills between characters who have little experience at adult relationships. Gradually, they bond over music, beginning to sing and write songs together. Mostly, they become friends because Killian keeps hanging around. Killian and Libby start off leisurely, slowly building a friendship after their decidedly un-cute meet. I liked Idol much more on the third read. He pukes on her and ends up sleeping it off in her bed. She is extremely unamused when she finds a stranger passed out in her yard having apparently drunkenly crashed his motorcycle into her fence. Liberty Bell (yes, that’s her real name) has cut herself off from the world too, reeling from the death of her parents a year before in a drunk driving accident. He hasn’t been able to play music and has largely cut himself off from his band mates. When Idol opens, Killian James is still struggling with having found his best friend almost dead. We occasionally visit the night in question in various character’s flashbacks, but mostly we see the reverberations in the 4 books of the series. Kill John, the world’s biggest rock band, has been blown apart by the front man’s almost successful death by suicide. And then I went back and read three of them again. So anyway, I inhaled all 4 like a bag of mixed snacks. I had not realized that somewhere along the way I had picked up all 4 of the VIP series books. I thought it might be worth revisiting him, but obviously I would have to reread Idol first, because I couldn’t remember it at all other than the early drunk driving incident. What I remember about Scottie is that I loathed him. I saw several people raving about Scottie in Kristen Callihan’s Managed. I have a bunch of books I’m really excited to read, and a bunch of books that are my happy place, but none of them were working for me.

I felt a little bruised and battered by some of the books I’ve read recently.

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