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Vile Boys by Clarissa Wild

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uglyduck's review

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dark emotional funny fast-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

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chaoticmama8721's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book is a wild ride. If you’re looking for a book with a super strong plot, this ain’t the one. The plot is the smut and I loved it. It fairly character driven but even that is based around the smut. It was deliciously sinful, unhinged, deranged, and dark.

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ellielucia's review

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adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

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bookameme's review

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Dark Bully Why Choose Romance

“I can feel myself ascending into heaven … hatred is the only thing I’ll carry with me.”

This book dives right into the dark deep depths of the deranged. It’s super smutty and the characters are set on watching each other burn. The FMC starts as sweet and innocent but learns to keep pace with these twisted boys. It’s an unapologetic dark bully romance, and the writing is definitely an acquired taste. The characters make choices, have behaviors, and interesting characteristics that I was not expecting. The story flows well and only has minor typos.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Characters: 💙💙💙

Dark Romance: Bully Romance, Why Choose, w/ MM

First Person, Present Tense, Multi POV

⚠️: Violence, 🔪, ☠️, dub con

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lady_h_reads's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Don’t worry, Crystal, we’ll only steal your fucking soul. Nothing more, nothing less. And when we’re done with you, you won’t even want it back.

Pure unadulterated & depraved smut with a little bit of plot. If you’re looking for dark kinks, they’re all here in abundance. This book was highly entertaining.

In the beginning, we are warned that the MMCs are not sweet or kind and that we will hate them but come to love them as they fall for the FMC. Clarissa accomplished her goal. The boys are unhinged and twisted, utterly obsessed with the FMC. I didn’t find the actual bullying to be that bad (though there is strong coercion/blackmail). FMC was not the shrinking violet the boys expected her to be. In the end, it was apparent that they were all perfect for each other.

Vile Boys is ultra fast-burn and spicy! I’m talking about prologue smut, with a frequency that carries throughout. There is an established MM relationship within the harem with additional MM interactions with another member of the harem. This leads to multiple MF, MM, MFM, MMF, and MMMF scenes. Lots and lots of dark and dirty kinks. My only ick – HYGENE! Ass to mouth (or V) without proper cleanup takes me out of the story completely.

This book may be read as a complete standalone, but I recommend reading the series in release order. A couple of times, the plot got bogged down in name-dropping from previous books in the series. It was difficult to keep the characters straight, so going in with prior knowledge of the characters may make for a better reading experience.

⚠️ Multiple Dark Element Warning – Check TW/CW if necessary ⚠️

Genre: Dark Contemporary Romance

Tropes/Features: University setting, dark elements, enemies to lovers, bully, coercion/blackmail, unhinged MMCs, good girl FMC, dark kinks, pierced peens, extra-large peen (make it fit), revenge

Narrator: Multiple 1st Person POV

Relationship Type: Why choose – MMMF, ultra fast burn, ultra spicy

Book Type/Ending: Interconnected standalone with HEA, recommend reading series in release order

TW/CW: Short list available in book’s Author’s Note, longer list on author’s website

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