I'm gonna SPOIL YOU ROTTEN, so read at your own risk, but everyone needs to be warned against this melodrama 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
The following text will contain a quick recap of events from book 1 and book 2, simply because I didn't think it was necessary to do in my previous review, but here it'll hopefully demonstrate why I'm so PISSED OFF
So in book 1 the hero finds a picture of the heroine naked on his father's secret phone and is convinced she's one of his numerous side pieces. He hates her instantly and swears to destroy her, cause he's too weak to go against daddy dearest, but oh well. At least it's realistic I guess. The H sees that h is new at his school, gains her trust only to turn against her 15 minutes later (WHY not come at her straight away? 🤡 ) The h is ashamed to admit she's a scholarship kid, so she gives a vague response that her tuition is "taken care of", which assures the H he was right in assuming his father slept with her. So the BULLYING BEGINS! Aside from pushing her against the wall and always being in her space, the H didn't do a lot of bullying himself. Instead he sent his loyal mean girls to terrorize her. They pushed her, almost drowned her (h can't swim and was saved by H), almost killed her (she had nut allergy and unknowingly drank some of it, almost didn't make it, but was again saved by H). The H starts this fucked up back and forth, where he hates her, but then kisses her, but then he hates her again, but then he kisses her again... The h tries several times to force H to admit why he hates her, but like a dipshit romance hero that he is, he doesn't budge and the melodrama continues. H's dad then confesses of sleeping with the h, of loving her but leaving her, of h being a manipulative bitch using the H to get to his dad ec. The hero believes his dad and we are nearing the end of the book. H ignores h, h seeks him out to talk, H convinces h that the truth will be revealed after they have sex (bitch wat?) and h agrees. After the fact H tells h she can go, and the next day there is a sex tape leaked with H and h doing the devil's tango. h is crushed but vows to destroy H.
Considering everything that went down between H and his father, I was sure H recorded and leaked the sextape, as a tool to destroy the h. It was still a BULLY romance, right? hehehe, well guess again.
In Book 2 we quickly realize the hero didn't do it, the head mean girl, who is conveniently a bitch and obsessed with H, is guilty of everything, she is BLACKMAILING H to keep quiet. And the hero somehow magically forgot about the convo with dad, doesn't believe his words and simply GOT SCARED of his deep emotions, that's why he sent the heroine away after sex like the dick that he is. 👀👀💀 This kind of backpedaling negates EVERYTHING that led up to book 1 cliffhanger and in the stupidest way. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
So, he keeps quiet about the truth of the sextape, while h is bullied by the whole school, her younger sister is attacked at school and then later at the mall by haters because of it, h is put on PROBATION (she really needs this scholarship). What could be the secret that the mean girl holds over H's head, you ask? What could be worth so much suffering on h's behalf, especially since at this point, the H admits to himself that he cares about h and tries to win her back. Very lamely, might I add 😶 I thought he either A) killed someone; B) assaulted the girl in question; C) raped her. Yes, I know, I have vivid imagination 😂 but this secret was described as being able to DESTROY the life of this rich boy, so it had to be good, right? RIGHT??????
Wrong! *insert evil dying laugh here* The H slept with some girl at the party, got her pregnant, she didn't tell him and got an abortion, then called him hysterically some time after because she was depressed. This girl turned out to be the daughter of the Head Coach for the college team the H wants to play next year in college. 👀👀👀👀👀😶🙃💀 ALL OF THAT SUFFERING ON THE HEROINE'S PART AND FOR THIS?????
Also, H is supposed to be this alpha male, the king of school, but his inner thoughts about relationships, intimacy, girls and feelings leave nasty aftertaste in my mouth. If you're an asshole, at least have the balls to go after what you want regardless of what society deems "manly". Don't act like a dick, then think like a zeta male and expect the readers to swoon at you. Although, judging by the amount of great reviews...which is a mystery to me, H found his tribe.
There is a Book 3 in this series, but every review says it's even worse than this one, so in words of Ariana Grande "Thank you, next!"