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Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray
5.0
If you like a bully to lovers romance with a great plot, this is a good one, but there are some trigger warnings.
Ivy is forced to go live with the aunt she never knew she had. Day 1 of living with her rich relative, she meets Kaiden Kingsley who lives right next door. He hates her on site and she has no idea why. Ivy had a rough life with her drug addict mom who didn't give a shit about her, and she immediately distrusts her aunt who is hiding something. She's angry that her family had all this money and she lived her life never owning one new thing, and never knowing where she was going to sleep or get her next meal. Kaiden and his brothers aren't making it easy on her being there either. She knows everyone knows something she doesn't and she's hellbent on finding out what it is.
The plot is actually pretty good. It's not just about the love-hate relationship between two people. It's so much more than that. There is a lot of action, lies, distrust, sneaking around, spying, corruption, etc. I like how this book is multifaceted and you don't know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are for most of the book. There is a huge cliff hanger at the end, and book 2 is a great ending for it.
There are some trigger warnings. At the beginning of the book, she ends up at a party where she is sexually assaulted. No sexual assault is ok, but it's not graphic and it's not a 'major' assault if there is such a thing. She was groped against her will, and her top was torn off in front of people she didn't know as a means of embarrassment.
There are so many twists, turns, and revelations and it made the book impossible to turn down. I saw some bad reviews on it before I began reading it that said it was predictable and basic, but I definitely didn't see it that way. You thought you knew what was going to happen then you ended up being wrong. The cliffhanger at the end catches you off guard and makes you want to immediately pick up the second book.
Spice level is 4/5.
Ivy is forced to go live with the aunt she never knew she had. Day 1 of living with her rich relative, she meets Kaiden Kingsley who lives right next door. He hates her on site and she has no idea why. Ivy had a rough life with her drug addict mom who didn't give a shit about her, and she immediately distrusts her aunt who is hiding something. She's angry that her family had all this money and she lived her life never owning one new thing, and never knowing where she was going to sleep or get her next meal. Kaiden and his brothers aren't making it easy on her being there either. She knows everyone knows something she doesn't and she's hellbent on finding out what it is.
The plot is actually pretty good. It's not just about the love-hate relationship between two people. It's so much more than that. There is a lot of action, lies, distrust, sneaking around, spying, corruption, etc. I like how this book is multifaceted and you don't know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are for most of the book. There is a huge cliff hanger at the end, and book 2 is a great ending for it.
There are some trigger warnings. At the beginning of the book, she ends up at a party where she is sexually assaulted. No sexual assault is ok, but it's not graphic and it's not a 'major' assault if there is such a thing. She was groped against her will, and her top was torn off in front of people she didn't know as a means of embarrassment.
There are so many twists, turns, and revelations and it made the book impossible to turn down. I saw some bad reviews on it before I began reading it that said it was predictable and basic, but I definitely didn't see it that way. You thought you knew what was going to happen then you ended up being wrong. The cliffhanger at the end catches you off guard and makes you want to immediately pick up the second book.
Spice level is 4/5.