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Misfit by Elle Kennedy

15 reviews

shadowmaster13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Delicious. Salacious. Gossip girl s1 but romance. 

I love a good outsider becomes king story and RJ is a great character to read about. I really love that the deliquent prep school environment allows RJ to find a fast group of friends without losing any of the tropes of an enemy that makes this kind of plot such a winner for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Classism

Adult/minor relationship:

A side character is very graphically but overall briefly shown seducing two teachers. He's technically 18, but the power imbalance is still present, and he is depicted as actively seeking the relationship due to his own issues.

jelkebooks's review against another edition

 Honestly, I didn’t want to DNF this so quickly, but considering how many times I have rolled my eyes at this already, I don’t know if I can handle even a second more of this book. Based on the synopsis this sounded right up my alley, messy rich kid drama. Except this just went WAY beyond that and decided that misogyny makes character cool and edgy. It’s not. It’s absolutely disgusting. Especially when every single character is that way. I just couldn’t anymore. Add on to that characters who think they are the shit, but are absolutely pathetic, I don’t know why I was still reading. I also read some spoiler-y reviews and I’m glad to miss out on the extremely biphobic antics this book seemingly gets up to in the part that I have not read. I don’t think I’m missong out on anything with this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Drug use

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.75

This was an interesting read.  
While I did enjoy the underlying plot of the book, I was shocked and a bit disappointed in the ending as I didn’t see it coming nor that character being the cause which felt a bit betraying. 

Overall the way in which this book was romance was just too overly sexual for me and I wasn’t a fan of the openly detailed scenes, as they felt a bit too much and wattpad-esque. 

I guess it’s a good rec for those who like dark romance but it’s not for me at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Car accident, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Drug use, Blood, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

dkgreads's review against another edition

emotional funny tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I liked this book, but not as much as I expected to. I’m a dialogue junkie, so the snarky banter made me giddy, and I love a good friend group/chosen family, but I feel like maybe there were too many POVs. Dual POV is my catnip, because I love getting both sides of the story, and I don’t mind multiple POVs if it’s done right, but I felt like the extra perspectives in this book took away from the main couple’s story and slowed it down for me. I will be continuing the series though, because I really liked all of the characters and their complexities and I want to see how the mystery around Casey’s accident unfolds.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Violence, and Drug use

Moderate: Car accident, Infidelity, Death of parent, Bullying, and Injury/Injury detail

skyhazzard's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Therapy! All these characters need some good therapy!

It was a fun, dramatic time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Addiction

Minor: Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, and Mental illness

readingonthefly's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

If Elle Kennedy writes it, I’m gonna read it.

Misfit had a different vibe than any of Elle’s previous books I’ve read. It was dark and mysterious and takes place at a Prep school in New Hampshire. 

It is told from a few different POV, giving different storylines throughout. Misfit doesn’t just focus on one romance. 

I would have loved more focus on RJ and Sloane. There are a lot of extra characters with their own stories that make this book longer than it needed to be. 

The end was very surprising though, so I’m off to listen to Rogue to see how this unfolds…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

kfaulkner2005's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I started out not really being able to get into the book. However, as the book progresses, it’s really easy to feel connected with these characters (Not Silas though, he kind of weirds me out lol). I’m also not a very expressive person with books, but as I reached the last five or so chapters, I couldn’t help but start laughing at some points. I even felt a bit relived and proud towards some of the characters and their character development

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Car accident

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Grief and Infidelity

Detailed drug and alcohol usage, infidelity, and LGBTQ+ scenes only present in few chapters (Mostly only Lawson in which you can skip if uncomfortable as it doesn’t feed the plot much) Car accident has some very detailed scenes

reads_all_the_books's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Addiction

a_sharum's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Car accident, and Cursing

ecravens's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Car accident, Child abuse, Cancer, Addiction, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Bullying, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Mental illness