In Ruins (Black Falls High, #1) by K.G. Reuss

In Ruins (Black Falls High, #1) Reviews

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  Namera [The Literary Invertebrate]

  ⤅ I've read a lot of spineless, masochistic heroines, but this one has to take the fricking cake.
  
  The book opens with the heroine GETTING ON HER KNEES TO LICK THE SHOES of some evil queen bee. Um, what the hell? Without a gun to her head, she sinks down and is fully ready to do some literal bootlicking, all the while whining 'I'm sorry for bumping into you, it was an accident! Please don't do anything to me!' She's only saved because the hero storms in and stops it.
  
  If you thought he was a knight in shining armour, think again. He's her ex-best friend who was her first kiss then randomly stopped talking to her and has ignored her for years. When she tries to thank him for stepping in, he tells her to piss off... and somehow, that makes her run to the toilet and start sobbing. Because of a couple of mean words from someone she claims to hate. Good God. In fact, in the first 10% of the book, the heroine spends most of her time crying or hiding away from other people in the toilet.
  
  I'm sorry, I just cannot deal with a heroine as spineless as this. I don't need my heroines to be made of steel, but I expect a basic level of self-respect and dignity. That involves NOT GETTING ON YOUR KNEES TO LICK SOMEONE'S SHOES, moreover someone who doesn't even seem to have hurt or otherwise coerced you into doing it?? The girl literally just gives the heroine a glare and our heroine is tripping all over herself to do whatever she wants. The phrase 'willing victim' comes to mind. I'm out of here.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  beth m

  Disappointing
  
  I didn’t finish. And honestly I’m mad. I’m super into RH and I’ll take a good bully RH any day when there is a justifiable reason why there is some reason to it. At this time I am 36% in and so far all I’ve gotten is the immature back and forth banter between high school kids. I should’ve known better.
  
  Possible Spoiler:
  
  I can handle dark bully RH but I can’t abide by coercing a minor into doing sexual favors because the guys stopped a rape from “getting to far” when the lead was obviously drugged and intoxicated and then prior to them stopping it they filmed part of it. That’s just not cool. It’s garbage. They blackmail her into agreeing to be whatever they want her to be. And then on top of it the female lead the next day goes to the guy who assaulted her and says :
  
  Direct quote:
  
  “ It shouldn’t have happened. I didn’t want it. You drugged me.I’m sure it’s a mistake. You’re a nice guy”
  
  What in the ever loving f**k? I can’t. Then he goes on to try to blackmail her into them continuing where they left off or he’ll tell her best friend who really likes him.
  
  There’s a fine line. This book just wasn’t for me and I could’ve left off there, but what really pisses me off is that there’s no real trigger warning it just says “this is a reverse harem bully romance” I’m sorry but there’s a difference between bullying and rape, and videotaping a minor getting assaulted. The guys who are potentially going to be her harem allow parts of the assault to happen so they can use it for leverage. How are people finding this sexy??????? How is this rating high???? How is normalizing rape culture sexy??? This was an absolute dumpster fire book that blows my mind that there are a total of four books.
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  Tanja

  Whether I liked the story or not aside, this book was well written. I like the writer's sentences, pace, and ability to drag you into the story.
  As for the story, honestly I let too much time pass between reading and writing the review, and I read all the other books in the series so they kind of blended together. All I'm left with is the overall feeling.
  Rosalie seriously got on my nerves in the first book, that much I do remember.
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  M

  This is a story about 4 football hotshots, better known as the 4 horseman and the girl who they want to break... or do they. They rule the school and get what they want, when they want it. No isn't usually a word they hear.
  
  Fox, Ethan, Cole and Enzo - Fox has known Rosalie since they were very young and they have lots of history. They are neighbors, neighbors that loathe each other. Something happens and he goes from loving her and him being her whole world... to him hating her and wanting to make her life as miserable as possible. They all just seem to watch her be tormented from afar and watch while other students try to bring her to her knees.
  
  Fox's girl Juliet tries one day in the cafeteria at school. Juliet demands that Rosalie lick the food that supposedly got on her schools when Rosalie accidentally bumped into her. She refuses to which angers Juliet. Which then makes Fox step in. Hmmmm....
  
  Now Rosalie is in Fox's sights one again. All the boys want her and try so hard to get her to be putty in their hands. Fox wants her, but doesn't want to give in. Kinda like a - if I can't have her no one will scenario.
  Something happens at a party and the guys blackmail her into being theirs. It takes a bit of convincing, but she finally surrenders to them. To do what they what, when they tell her to do. It's a just say yes and don't ask any questions thing.
  
  Things start to heat up..... and then secrets are found out and hearts are broken. Can they come back from this --- I don't how I feel about the guys - Cole and Enzo are broody and playful, Ethan is the kind and thoughtful one (possible act) and Fox is the one who couldn't be bothered by her until he got that first taste, now he's feeling... something. That ending though! I sure hope Fox grovels and Rosie doesn't give in too quickly. I can't tell if their plan just got away from them OR if Rosie was supposed to find out what they truly wanted from her. Which was to break her and just let her be another conquest.
  
  Oh gosh, that cliffhanger!! Need to read book two asap!
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  Melissa, Book Boyfriend and Husband Make Three

  I was looking forward to reading this new to me author, unfortunately that feeling didn’t last. This was on the cusp of being a DNF by the end of the first chapter, and I kinda wish I would have listened to that instinct.
  
  The prologue gave a little insight into Rosie and Fox’s past friendship, and from there these characters took a nosedive.
  
  My all-time favorite trope is bully romance, but there’s a finesse that authors need to make these types of stories work, and In Ruins didn’t have any of it.
  In the first chapter she’s made to get on her knees and lick the food off the “Queen Bee’s” shoes. Why? Because she bumped into her and food spilled on her shoes from it.
  
  Does Rosie put up any sort of fight? Of course not.
  
  Rosie was weak, she posed no challenge at all to these guys, she bent to the will of anyone that got in her face. In my opinion that’s not the type of heroine meant for a bully romance. I think she’s taken the place of the top doormat character in a romance.
  
  Normally my favorite thing is the push/pull between the heroine and the bully because she’s sassy, and strong, and never willing to just bend at the will of others.
  
  This book was all the same, someone bullying Rosie and her bending at their will, and in the times she did try to pretend she had a backbone it came off as ingenuine and ridiculous. How was I supposed to believe that every now and again this character that continuously proves she has no backbone, all of a sudden had one for the length of a sentence and then for it to vanish again as if it never existed.
  
  I didn’t feel a connection between her and any of the guys, and Fox’s reason for hating her wasn’t even really explained, other than he blamed her for his mom’s death which made zero sense.
  
  Some of the guys were kind of sweet, and even a little charming, but to be honest I don’t remember their names, nor do I care. Several of the guys were supposed to have the “alpha-hole” vibe, but alas that wasn’t what I got from them.
  
  Rosie didn’t even have a best friend to offer anything to the story. She was awful.
  
  And the other guy in the story was just as wretched as the other characters, supposedly he and Rosie were friends, but then he drugs her, for the reason men do those things, and then he blackmails her.
  
  And after the incident the next time she speaks with him, she still says he’s “the good guy”....
  
  Instead of telling her “friend” she keeps her mouth shut because she doesn’t want to upset her, and she says nothing while her “best friend” begins dating a man that drugged her and was taking advantage of her in that state.
  
  With friends like that, who needs enemies? Well, except Rosie because it seems like everyone in her life is her enemy in one way or another.
  
  There was no character development, by the end of the book the guys have lessened their chance of having any redeeming qualities, and Rosie is a spineless mess that all of a sudden makes a threat which was laughable at that point.
  
  I will not be reading any more by this author, no chemistry, no likeable qualities in any of the characters, weakness in moments that should have shown a character's strength, no witty banter, and lackluster steam.
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  Stephanie Graves

  I finished this only because of the same masochism that drove me to finish 1 1/2 of the Fifty Shades books--because I wanted to burn it down and salt the earth, but I needed to be fully informed in order to do so.
  
  It's a reverse harem bully novel--this is not why I loathed it. When you know that going in, you can expect a certain kind of tension. I don't have a problem with the genre, and I've read RH/B books before and liked them.
  
  I just hate THIS book.
  
  It's labeled a romance, but unless coercion and sexual assault are your idea of "romance," it's really just a book with some fucking in it. To sell a bully storyline, there needs to be some kind of backstory there, a tension that undergirds the whole thing. Here, the justification for the bullying is as flimsy as the wall in a Forever 21 dressing room. The four boys--only mildly characterized beyond "the four popular boy archetypes"--are horrible humans. The coerce the MC into being the tootsie roll center of their toxically masculine tootsie pop by THREATENING TO RELEASE A VIDEO THEY SHOT OF HER BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AFTER BEING ROOFIED. The only consequences for the dude who did it are that he gets an ass kicking, but more because she is "THEIRS" now and he needs to step off.
  
  NEVER does she consider going to authorities or reporting it. And I get why someone may choose not to--but AT LEAST CONSIDER IT.
  
  And for fuck's sake. The main character. She is cardboard thin in terms of characterization, and she's supposedly smart enough to get a full ride to an ivy league college yet she is just dumber than a box of hair. It's infuriating to see her get manipulated, abused, recorded unwillingly, tormented, and then also have Roofie Dude constantly in the background threatening her with finishing what he started, which she LETS HAPPEN.
  
  But you know, the guys are so hot, and they can make her come, so in the face of that, why would bodily autonomy or agency or even BASIC PERSONAL SAFETY matter, right? They're hot!
  
  [Side note: Her name is Rosalie, which the boys shorten to "rosebud" over and over, and it's probably my fault for having read so much slashfic, but when I hear that word and there are no flowers around all I am thinking about is AN ANUS.]
  
  Of course there is the blonde cheer captain who is evil and also bullies her, because of course other women are horrible. The only other woman in the book is her friend Jamie--no last name, no character, just a straight-out-of-central-casting sidekick--and Jamie is a fickle friend who turns on the MC and slut shames her at the first chance.
  
  Stick a fucking fork in me.
  
  All I can say is that at least since it was part of Kindle Unlimited, I didn't pay for the misery of reading this. At least not in a monetary sense.
  
  This MC doesn't need four boyfriends, she needs a lot of therapy and some semblance of self worth.
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  R.E. Bond

  This book was so good! I love all the characters, and its nice to see a female lead who's NOT a badass in a violent way, but one who keeps pushing through hell. Shes a fighter in the mental sense, and I love that. The guys are all very different from each other, and I love some are softer than others. My heart hurt for fox, and watching this story unfold was painful but beautiful.
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  Melluvsbooks

  2nd DNF on this one - didn’t realize I’d tried this one before until I opened it at 38% 😬 …. Decided to skim to the end. These high school kids, who are doggedly pursuing an RH relationship with the h, act like middle schoolers. I am not feeling true affection/chemistry. They just seem like hormonal teenagers who want to get their rocks off with a gangbang. Not for me.
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  Yami's Bookshelf

  This is my first read by K.G. Reuss and my mind is completely blown. This had been chilling in my kindle for awhile and I am kicking myself for not picking up sooner - it pulled me right in and I can’t stop reading the series.
  
  I haven’t read a Bully high school romance this good in a long time. K.G Reuss is a great storyteller.
  
  The story centers around Rosalie “Rosie” and her tormentors: Juliet, Fox, Cole, Enzo and Ethan. These people make her life a living hell on earth. The first page you’re introduced to Juliet asking Rosie to lick her shoes or else, face the consequences. Fox comes to her rescue but no good deed goes unpunished.
  
  It is nonstop pulling at your heartstrings from there on out. K.G. did a phenomenal job (in my opinion) at painting the picture of this dark and ominous plot with characters that had me intrigued and wanting to know more. As soon as I post this I am already starting Book 3. I went into Book 2 and finished it in less than 24 hours.
  
  This story is told from Rosie’s POV so we don’t get the guy’s perspectives. I hope we get to see that in future books though. I love the Multiple POV books especially in Bully romance.
  
  
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  SakuraReader

  I cannot BELIEVE I made it to 40%. It angers me to no end and the FMC falls for such d*ckheads that are basically assaulting her!!
  Her supponed bff just hates her for no reason whatsoever. I would "get" it if there was a misunderstanding of some kind in the past that was never cleared up. I'm guessing is going to be something that has to do with the death of his mother. He probably blames her or something. But with zero explanation I am SOOO pissed off that he just mistreats her so bad. "I never want you to hurt" what a whole looaaaad of BS!!!
  
  I hate how weak rosie is. Too effin much. I want her to stand up for herself!! Ughhhh to kneel for julia??? Just no. Just thar great start of a scene (note the sarcasm) told be exactly everything I needed to know of rosie.
  
  I hate the guys. They are literally the type of guys the heroes I like always defend the girl of. And nothing makes them change their minds. Honestly, the only difference I see between them and Ian is that they are 4. Dont give me this bs that because they wouldnt drug her they are good guys. They went to her home. Dragged her to a party she did not want to go (of course her lack of will and self respect added to that but that is another point), they let her get dragged to bed with a guy they knew was bad news and recorded her to blackmail her into being their sex slave. Yeah they are soooo much better than Ian. PFFFF!!!!
  
  They see her suffer in so many ways and still bully her and hurt her. How is she supposed to feel love for them? Ever? The fact that she gets turned on makes me want to throw my phone against the wall. Or against her head. Ughhh. Blackmail her into being their whore???? Seriouslyy!!!??? The moment she accepted the deal I stopped reading.
  
  I know that for some it is a turnon when the guys are so bossy and dominating. I get and respect that. Even like it myself. I don't mind it being a game in the bedroom. Rollplay. Cool. But in their daily lives?? That is a big fat NO. Fuck that.
  
  Hated this book with my soul.
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  C.P. Mandara

  The four horsemen, all stars of the football team, and one nearly broken heroine brought to her knees by the school's queen bee. Can they save her from a life of torment?
  
  The simple answer: no. Things are only going to going to get worse from here on in, and it will be an epic ride to see if these four men can save their woman.
  
  I must say, four men on one woman got me quite hot under the collar. Although it starts as a slow burn, it certainly hots up near the end.
  
  5 Steamy Stars!
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  Michelle

  I just don't think Bully Romance is for me. While I loved the guys, the trust I had for them was just not there and I couldn't get passed how they used an almost rape to get Roselie to do what they wanted. Plus the reason Fox wasn't talking to Rosie was weak.
  
  I wish it worked and I really wanted to love it but I just think Bully Romance isn't my thing.
  
  However if it is your thing, You will love this!
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  Sarah

  Spineless heroine. Awesome.
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  Dani (books and blankets)

  Wow!!!
  
  Why did I wait so long to start this series?! I'm so addicted with this story. I'm rooting for Rosie of course. Seems like she's finally going to stand up for herself. Even though the end broke my heart, I'm desperate to start the next book. Here I go! 😬
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  atomickitten

  This book starts with the heroine being forced to lick the shoes of some evil high school queen bee wannabe.
  In front of everyone.
  Without the gun pointed to her head.
  Voluntarily.
  
  Is this a fucking joke?
  
  I'm afraid it isn't.
  
  I just wonder who would wanna read about this spineless idiot.
  Not me, that's for sure.
  
  So, thanks but no thanks.
  
  
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  Tees_BookCave

  This book actually took me by surprise with how well it was able to capture my attention. This book is definitely drama filled and filled with bossy alpha assholes who you know when they love, they love with every fibre of their being.
  
  Throw in some queen bee bitch drama who I wouldn’t mind knocking her down a few notches, some other drama and a whole bunch of other stuff and you have yourself a kicker start to a series.
  
  Definitely living the group dynamic and the personalities of everybody. They balance each other out so well that it’s truly a vibe.
  
  Definitely check it out!
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  Valentina

  My first book with this author, and it won't be the last. I absolutely adored this book. It was a real bully romance, with bullying, mean girls and mean guys, the confidante best friend, and a twist. From friends to enemies, Rosie and Fox along with his boys decide to take an interest in this heroine who previously was persona non-grata. The question is why and should she trust them.
  
  Excellent character and story development in this reverse harem tale, strong chemistry among the characters, good or bad, sexual or non-sexual. This story was well-written, a great balance of dialogue, prose, flow, and pace such that the scenes unfold in your mind and you experienced Rosie's feelings. Usually I like a story told from multiple points of view, but in this case, one POV worked well as written, and in fact added to the intrigue. Additionally, while the heroine seemed timid, she was not a pushover. She tried to defend herself, but I suspect her true voice and defenses are about to evolve in the next books.
  
  Truly one of the best reverse harems I've read, story mixed with the right amount of steaminess and intrigue. I was so captured by the writing that I reached the end, and I didn't realize time has passed. Such a great book. Looking forward to the next in the series.
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  Brittany (happy.ending.always)

  Absolutely Amazing Bully Romance!!!
  
  What a book! My friend Kayla knows I love bully romance and recommended I read this book! And I am so glad she did, it is fantastic! This book has so many twists, turns, ups and downs. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time reading this book! I had no idea where it was going to go!
  
  Rosalie and Fox where best friends when they were younger, promising to never leave each other’s side! Then tragedy struck, ripping them a part! Fast forward years later and Rosalie is in a situation where she needs rescuing. She never would have thought/seen it coming that the person to rescue her would be Fox, her old best friend! But being rescued comes with a price! A price that not only she has to pay up, but a price that she need to go through with otherwise she will loose everything.
  
  This book was amazing! And that cliffhanger! I so need to know what is going to happen and where the story will go next! I loved K.G. Reuss’ writing! It was captivating and grabbed your attention! I am so excited to read much more of her books!
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  Jenifer Briggs

  ** I KNOW I reviwed this series when I first read this series. *looks around goodreads suspiciously**
  
  But anyways, man, what a way to start a series!! I read this back when I was first opening myself up to the rh world, and I was completely obsessed with these characters from the get go! Rosie has such a quiet strength to her, and I loved how she knocked every one of those cocky boys for a loop, especially Fox. I hated his reason for hating her, but at the same time I understood how big his grief was, and he was a child when everything happened, so it made sense that he acted like that. But now that he's trying to repent for all his mistakes (slowly but surely. Even if that cliffy had me SCREAMING!) I'm all here for it. Plus I'm absolutely loving all the dynamics to everyone's relationships, and not gonna lie, Cole and Ethan totally have my heart.
  
  If you are in the need for a new bully, enemies to lovers rh pick this up!
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  shannonbookishlife

  This book definitely had me In Ruins!
  K.G (a new author to me) had sucked me in from reading the blurb alone. And then the story had me sucked in from the get go.
  Rosalie aka Rosie and Fox had me completely enamoured with their friendship to hatred to their everything they were and are and more.
  Their story along with Ethan, Cole and Enzo was a crazy rollercoaster ride of so many feelings and emotions hitting me like a freight train. Never wanting it to end and completely entranced by them all.
  Seriously I could not put this book down, I just kept reading and reading till I got to the end.
  K.G had me under her spell with this incredibly, amazing, fantastic one hell of a story book! And the way she left it had me hyperventilating and crying for more!
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  Dapper

  Heroine is too pathetic to even be half decent friend.
  
  Rosaline rationale: Im going to allow my friend to crush on/spend time with a man that date-raped me because he said he’d tell her if I didn’t allow him to rape me again.
  
  While I get that victims can be closeted about their trauma, our FMC was clearly more upset that it wasn’t Fox than that it happened at all. So her allowing her friend to be put in such a vulnerable position by not telling her Ian drugged her is unforgivable.
  
  Also her “defiance” against the bullies extended only to whining.
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  Roxy Love

  One hell of a ride!
  
  This is a page turner that I could not put down. Drama? Check. Excitement? Check. Hot steamy scenes? Check!! This book had me on a rollercoaster of feelings. I didn't know if I loved the group of guys Rosalie was seeing, or if I hated them, or loved to hate them. Fox is the biggest mystery of them all. Definitely worth the read if you are looking for something dark, hot and twisted!
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  Mabel

  This was bad.
  
  
  
  We have a heroine who is willing to overlook a rapist’s actions because her alleged BFF is crushing on said rapist, and some way, somehow, said BFF finding out her crush was out dropping roofies in girls’ drinks to have his way with them would break her heart.
  
  Then the rapist straight-up tells her:
  
  

  
  “If you don’t finish it, it’ll be her virginity I take. We’ve both spent enough time with her to know how important this is to her. I’ll fuck her brains out. I’ll make promises I don’t intend to keep. Then I’ll leave her without an explanation.”
  
  “You’re an asshole.”
  
  “Or maybe I’ll tell her she fucks like a wet paper bag, and I can’t bear to do it with her again.”
  
  “Jamie is your friend, Ian. What the hell is the matter with you? You know what this means to her—”
  
  “I know, and that’s why you need to fall in line, Rosalie. I wanted you first. If those fuck boys hadn’t come in and ruined it, you’d be mine right now, not sucking them off every chance you get.”
  
  “There’s something seriously wrong with you,” I snarled at him, my hands balled into fists.
  
  “No, I just know what I want.” A wide smile spread over his face. Dread filled my belly. “That’s you. I’d hoped you’d want me too. When you didn’t, I decided to settle with easing your resistance with a little chemical help. Now, you know the score. I will have you. I don’t care if you had all their dicks inside you. Mine will be the last.”
  
  “I was drunk, Ian. You put something in my drink. That wasn’t love, lust or anything related. It was criminal! That night shouldn’t have happened. I was upset, and you took advantage.” I shifted to open my car door, but he slammed it closed on me, making me jump.
  
  “It was me you came to.”
  
  “It was an accident,” I answered. “I ran into you. It could’ve been anyone. But the only difference is, they wouldn’t have drugged me and tried to fuck me.”
  
  He let out a bark of laughter and pushed me against my car. “I want what’s mine. Finish what you fucking started, or I really will take it from you.”
  
  “I’m done having this argument with you.” I ground my teeth, trying to compose myself. “You’re mental.”
  
  “I’m taking her v-card. Then I’m going to tell her about us.”
  
  “Go to hell,” I snarled at him. “If you touch her, I will end you.”
  
  I didn’t wait for his rebuttal. I shoved him aside, got into my car, and peeled away, leaving him where he stood.
  

  
  
  And still the heroine does not tell her alleged best friend about this man’s plans.
  
  This excerpt is also a good example of just how worthless Rosalie, our heroine, is. She has no problem telling the abusive people around her to fuck off, but we never, ever see her take actual action against them. She is pushed around and forced into all manner of bad situations, including almost being forced to fellate a man, and she does not fight, does not scream, does not try to get away. Her immediate response to all force is submission. And full disclosure, I prefer submissive heroines to those who kick-ass and take names while spouting ‘clever’ one-liners, but there is a difference between ‘submissive’ and ‘doormat’. Rosalie is very much the latter.
  
  As for the rest of the characters… This is a world where teachers see abuse and do not intervene in any way. Jamie, the so-called BFF, is happy to drop Rosalie’s friendship the moment her beloved rapist starts paying her any mind, while adding a scoop of slut-shaming to the mix. And when it comes to the plot, well. No part of the abuse ever feels justified, given that Rosalie is obviously attractive enough to warrant the constant sexual harassment of 4 men and a rapist, and is smart enough to get a full ride to an Ivy League college, yet somehow made it so low on the totem pole that we are expected to believe that it is okay for her to fall to her knees to lick que Queen Bee’s shoes in the middle of the cafeteria and have no-one intervene.
  
  
  
  So yeah, it’s a bad book with no redeeming aspects. Everything about Rosalie annoyed me, including her painfully First World Problem of ‘I earned a full ride to an Ivy League college but I would rather siiiing’, never mind everything related to her guys. Needless to say, I will not be continuing this series nor trying anything else by this author, because even beyond the bully aspect, the book was nonsensical tripe of the cheapest kind.
  
  Sarah Puckett did a good job narrating, though! So, there’s that.
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  J. Ockenhouse

  OMG!!!! Fox is an enigma wrapped in an enigma. Him and his crew rule the school but the question is how does Rosalie factor in.
  
  Her and Fox were childhood friends but something happened that they gone separate ways. He became an shining star with secrets and she stayed in the shadows but when you cross the Fox and his crew, how do you come back.
  
  The twists have twists and these cast of characters have you questioning everything you think you know.
  
  This one will be touchy for a lot of people. That cliff punched me hard and my jaw hurts from hitting the floor.
  
  Definitely a top 3 book and I can't wait to sink my soul into what's next. I received an ARC for an honest and voluntarily review.
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  Diana

  Not sure which I hate more: the cliffhanger ending or that one of the main MMCs was found in bed with OW. Ugh.
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  Stefanie

  Yep BIG DNF — I don’t appreciate rape (or forced/blackmailed) in a developing RH relationship, even if it’s bully. It makes me sick and want to cry and punch to guys into a pulp. I understand bullying but this goes waaaaaaaaaay too far, especially because they get so angry about Ian practically blackmailing her to do the same thing. It’s sick, really sick. And I cannot understand how an author can me this into a happy ending RH relationship; even IF she gets her revenge apparently later on. I cannot continue reading