There’s just so much to say, and trying to tell you what’s good and bad about this book is like… really hard. But I’ll try.
About fifteen minutes later
Ngl, I didn’t read the random attack at the haunted house as being the beginnings of a stalker, because this book is so outrageously stupid and random, that it just reads as another incident that would happen once then never be mentioned again.
This book is like taking drugs- in the sense that outrageous things happen on the reg and it’s totally normal. One minute you’re chilling in school, minding your own business. The next, Connor Michaels is pressing some poor girl up against and practically inside of her locker with like, jacked superman bulletproof abs, and no one bats an eye.
This dude literally throws her (Bellatrix) out of her seat, calls her a slut, a whore, and then knocks her out during P.E, before dumping hot food on her during lunch and leaving her with minor burns- on her first day of school. And people just… go about their lives, like this man isn’t the worlds most nefarious villain, who has singlehandedly screwed his way through an entire grade of girls (apparently the weird ones too, but there are no paper-eating girls in this school so nvm).
He also fulfills every trope. There is literally nothing Connor Michaels cannot do- like this man is top of his class, a tutor and football star, but is also the “bad boy” with a criminal record, a track history of pummelling random football players into the ground, and climbing ferris wheels??
He’s also so infamous he doesn’t need a Halloween costume, he just goes as himself.
That being said, I love this book. It’s so stupid it’s amazing. I found it on wattpad when I was 13, and it lived in my head for so long, that it brought me back to reading it as a published work at 24.
I couldn’t remember anything, and what I read honestly leaves me breathless. Honestly, I’m rendered sputtering and speechless at almost every line. Everything that happens is like- “outrageous move from Connor Michaels, Bella cries, everyone laughs/cheers/gasps” and done. Theres also the scenes where generally big revelations are made, or insinuated, and then Bella just… goes to sleep.
And yet- it is the best thing I have ever read.
For example: tell me, what other author uses show and not tell in a fantastic display of emoji usage. “Her eyes snapped up and she made a face—this to be exact: 😐”.
It’s awful, but it’s good. It had me screaming with laughter and practically shouting “NO!!” Every minute, but I’m so glad it remains unchanged. Because if this book was written any other way, it just wouldn’t be worth it.
10/10, will read again
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