The Party King

by Simone Elkeles, J.B. Rush

From Simone Elkeles, the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of the PERFECT CHEMISTRY series and debut author J.B. Rush comes a novel set in the late 80's & early 90's.Today Billy Brooks is turning 50 and his life is a mess. His wife is leaving him, his kids think he's a total dork, and COVID forced him to close down his once lucrative business. Where did it all go wrong?BACK IN THE 80'S & 90'S BILLY WAS THE PARTY KING!It all started in the 80's...when big hair, mullets, and Members Only jackets were rad and Guns N' Roses ruled the FM airwaves. Freshman frat boy Billy Brooks has just been suspended from his Big 10 university for a bogus crime he didn't commit and is forced to go back home to Chicago.Billy lands a job as a roadie for a DJ company & enters an underground DJ scene with bodacious babes, plenty of doobage, and gnarly music.In the early 90's, a totally chill babe challenges him to change his newfound party hardy ways. Billy is forced to choose between living in the fast lane or settling down. The choice he makes causes his life to go from Paradise City to The End Of The World As We Know It.

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About the author

Simone Elkeles is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of novels for teens. Simone’s books have won many awards including being YALSA Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, being named to the YALSA Popular Paperbacks and Teens Top Ten lists, and added to the Illinois “Read for a Lifetime” Reading List. Simone also won the coveted RITA award from the Romance Writers of America for her book Perfect Chemistry. Simone is especially proud of the fact that the Illinois Association of Teachers of English named her Author of the Year.

Simone was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, where she still lives today. Simone went to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and received her Bachelor’s of Science there in Psychology in 1992. She continued her education at Loyola University-Chicago where she received her Master’s of Science degree in Industrial Relations while working for a manufacturing company creating diversity programs for their employees.

She loves animals (she has two dogs – a labradoodle and a German Shepherd), kids (she also has two of those) and her family. In her spare time she’s the Hockey Mom for her kids hockey teams and is an active Girl Scout leader specially trained in outdoor education. She also spends time mentoring other teen and adult authors. (She also loves sushi, which you can probably tell by reading her books.) Simone writes about teens because she was a teen in the 80’s (when spiked hair and blue eye shadow were “rad”) and she loves writing about those exciting teen relationships and romances.

Reviews

[Dayna · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I did enjoy this book it wasn't my favorite simone elkeles book