Reviews - The Bully: Deluxe Edition

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The Bully: Deluxe Edition

Devney Perry

3.92 AVERAGE

edietpwkwatson's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kalirice's review against another edition

5.0

I’m glad I didn’t listen to the reviews on this one, I was already 3 books deep into this series and thought I may as well continue because I enjoyed the others!!
I loved this book just like the others, I don’t know what it was but this was different from enemies to lovers trope. Nellie’s hate for cal was something deep and I loved that you got an insight as to why she disliked him when he would go back and forth with her journal. I didn’t feel like the l dislike for one another dragged on too much it was just the perfect amount.
The way Nellie liked to prank cal had me laughing through out the book and I found her wit enjoyable!!
Deffs recommend this one!

heidireads_'s review against another edition

4.0

4.25 I really liked the plot of this book, however I listened to this on audio and Cindy Kay I swear is the worst narrator and it honestly made the book worse lol. I did really enjoy this book with these two hating each other. I also really liked their banter and diaries.

cjohns96's review against another edition

3.75

funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

antonia_tbrinfinity's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

*exhales* okay so I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with this book, so let’s get into it🥴

I wanna preface by saying that when I see the word bully, even in a fictional book, I get triggered. I was bullied in school and I hate the “I was mean to you because I liked you” bs.

BIG HOWEVER. This was kind of like that but kind of not. Without spoiling anything, all I’ll say about that aspect of it was that it was more of a “I have to act like I hate you so people worst than me won’t mess with you.”🥲

And now we’re gonna move on cause this is getting to be too negative and I don’t do that here😂

Now onto the positives😅 I did love the banter in this book when it was the playful kind. The side characters made more than just a here and there appearance like other books so I loved that. They were integral parts of the story even though these characters books had already been done.

While I do love that Cal and Nellie’s relationship progressed throughout the book, I would’ve loved to see a little more growth. It kind of went from “enemies with benefits” to “it was always you” in the blink of an eye, like the buildup wasn’t there enough for me🥲

I love when a book has journal entries like this one and the fact that the entires were in Nellie’s POV but then we get more insight of what really happened during Cal’s POV made it soooo much better.

This book was relatively spicy when they were enemies, but when the enemies became lovers the spice was SPICING🤭

Overall, I did really enjoy this, but I did expect a little more from it since the first 3 books were so great. But I am still looking forward to reading the last two books of the series!