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Dirty Wicked Prince
by Eden O'Neill
This book is a dark, bully romance featuring high school students. Read the trigger warnings before reading this book because they definitely come into play.
Overall, this book follows a pretty typical set-up. Siblings move to a new town that's more or less run by several wealthy families. One of the new kids and one of the important kids fall for each other, despite initially hating each other (exceptionally intensely).
Eden O'Neill's writing style wasn't my favorite. The characters are high schoolers, but even so their dialogue is very simplistic and repetitive. Some of the descriptions fell flat to me (like when the relationships between all the families are being discussed and she wraps it up with a handwavy "it's hard to understand from the outside, but we were all family" type quote.
To me, Sloane and Dorian's characters both felt a little flat. They have defining characteristics but not much depth. Their relationship makes sense in terms of overall wanting them to end up together, but they go from absolute hatred to love with very few steps in between, thin line between love and hate I guess 😂.
from the first mention of Dorian's grandpa, I assumed that's who Callum was, but I had also assumed that Dorian killed his grandpa based on his spiral after skipping town, so I'm glad that all got sorted out for me at the end! .
Overall, if you're really into bully romances, this would be a good pick. This is the first book in a series, and I like the direction the plot is moving, so I might give book 2 a chance, but it's not high on my priority list. I'll probably give another Eden O'Neill book a try in the future to see if the writing style of this series just isn't for me or if it's her writing style in general.
Overall, this book follows a pretty typical set-up. Siblings move to a new town that's more or less run by several wealthy families. One of the new kids and one of the important kids fall for each other, despite initially hating each other (exceptionally intensely).
Eden O'Neill's writing style wasn't my favorite. The characters are high schoolers, but even so their dialogue is very simplistic and repetitive. Some of the descriptions fell flat to me (like when the relationships between all the families are being discussed and she wraps it up with a handwavy "it's hard to understand from the outside, but we were all family" type quote.
To me, Sloane and Dorian's characters both felt a little flat. They have defining characteristics but not much depth. Their relationship makes sense in terms of overall wanting them to end up together, but they go from absolute hatred to love with very few steps in between, thin line between love and hate I guess 😂.
Overall, if you're really into bully romances, this would be a good pick. This is the first book in a series, and I like the direction the plot is moving, so I might give book 2 a chance, but it's not high on my priority list. I'll probably give another Eden O'Neill book a try in the future to see if the writing style of this series just isn't for me or if it's her writing style in general.