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A review by noellelovesbooks
Rival by Ketley Allison
3.5
Content Warnings: sexual content, blood, animal cruelty, gore, bullying, toxic friendships, toxic relationships, and isolation.
Mention of: suicide, murder of a parent, and grief.
Interesting start to a series, we get generations of secrets, rival secret societies, unexplained deaths and so much more. I do feel like this first book could have been cut a bit shorter since, it feels, like we barely learn anything by the end of the book.
Also, probably because I wasn't paying close enough attention 😅, I went into this book thinking it was a college campus, like a private college campus...especially with the school constantly being referred to as a "university"...but then the tags are saying, "high school romance," which throws me off a bit 😅 at least, as far as I can tell all the characters are 18.
Anyways, I'm interested to read more of the series and see what secrets are uncovered.
Mention of: suicide, murder of a parent, and grief.
Interesting start to a series, we get generations of secrets, rival secret societies, unexplained deaths and so much more. I do feel like this first book could have been cut a bit shorter since, it feels, like we barely learn anything by the end of the book.
Also, probably because I wasn't paying close enough attention 😅, I went into this book thinking it was a college campus, like a private college campus...especially with the school constantly being referred to as a "university"...but then the tags are saying, "high school romance," which throws me off a bit 😅 at least, as far as I can tell all the characters are 18.
Anyways, I'm interested to read more of the series and see what secrets are uncovered.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Blood, Animal cruelty, Gore, Bullying, and Sexual content
Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, and Grief