Mature
Length11h 30m
About this audiobook
Malik’s monsters never lived under the bed. They wore perfume and cologne, and they had given him his name.
Before he became the man your friends warn you about, Malik was a boy in a hallway, learning that love and danger could wear the same face. The armor he built saved the child. It nearly destroyed the man. The Fuck Boy follows him from a childhood where safety was an illusion into an adulthood of charm, conquest, and carefully managed distance, and then to the moment the pattern finally turns and faces him.
Written by Rory E. Carothers Sr., LPC, a licensed professional counselor and Army veteran, this is literary fiction with a clinical spine, a story for the one who was hurt by someone like Malik and for the one who has begun to suspect he might be Malik. It refuses to glorify the games, and it refuses to mistake the wound for the person.
A companion guide, Decoding the Fuck Boy, names what this novel makes you feel. Listen to the story first. Feel it. Then decode it.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length11 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Fuck Boy
2A Note Before You Begin
3A Note on the Story Ahead
4Dedication
5Epigraph
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6Chapter 1. Monsters at Home
7Chapter 2. The First Betrayal
8Chapter 3. Becoming Invisible
9Chapter 4. Boys Don’t Cry
10Chapter 5. Searching for Validation
11Chapter 6. The Masks We Wear
12Chapter 7. Love, Lust, and Confusion
13Chapter 8. The Hustle for Worth
14Chapter 9. The Angry Man
15Chapter 10. Running from the Mirror
16Chapter 11. The Women I Hurt
17Chapter 12. The Loneliness Nobody Sees
18Chapter 13. The Moment Everything Cracked
19Chapter 14. Meeting the Boy Again
20Chapter 15. Rewriting the Rules
21Chapter 16. The Man Beyond the Mask
22Author’s Note
23A Note on the Companion Guide
24About the Author
25Finding Help: Resources and When to Seek Them
26Closing Credits
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