Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s 2013 novel Gray – co-written with a staff writer for MTV news – is his second publication. The first was a young adult book titled “The Boy With the Thorn In His Side.” The new book tells the story of a singer on tour with a band and includes plenty of drugs and heavy levels of despair. Will "Gray" encourage Wentz to permanently switch from music to literature? Not if you ask some of the novel's early readers. In its review of the book, the Onion’s AV Club said that "Gray" "fails at style, plotting, and emotional resonance.”
