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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Just Drop Out by J. Bree
4.0
Sometimes it feels like this series has reached cult status. Everyone in the Reverse Harem community is talking about it. At first it didn't really speak to me. I'm not into contemporary in general. I'm even less interested in bully romances. However, I finished the Bonds that Tie and when I was asking for more books breaking my heart and then gluing it together again this book came up. A lot. So, it was time to give the book a chance.
I was firstly quite surprised that the story was so fast paced. The Bonds that Tie was clearly a lot slower and it was especially that element, combined with the tension, that lured me in. However, once I got used to the pacing and the passing of time, the author had to fit an entire year into one book after all, I was starting to like it more and more. Mostly because the writing is still as captivating and still as gripping and still as addictive.
Another element I'm usually not fond of, mostly because I've been the victim of it way too often and way too long, is the bullying. In this case our heroine is quite capable of defending herself, though. Which doesn't mean she doesn't feel the shame and pain and sadness when bad things happen to her. It just means that she's capable of hiding those emotions for the world and coming up with great ways to get back at her bullies. It came with a delicious kind of tension!
I was also very pleasantly surprised with the second layer of the story. This story became, especially at the very end, more than a story about a girl with a scholarship trying to survive four years at a posh and expensive school with privileged and arrogant rich assholes. This is a story about a girl breaking free from a very dangerous world and maybe finding love and making friends along the way. The romance and the friendship might take time, but I'm looking forward to it already!
I was firstly quite surprised that the story was so fast paced. The Bonds that Tie was clearly a lot slower and it was especially that element, combined with the tension, that lured me in. However, once I got used to the pacing and the passing of time, the author had to fit an entire year into one book after all, I was starting to like it more and more. Mostly because the writing is still as captivating and still as gripping and still as addictive.
Another element I'm usually not fond of, mostly because I've been the victim of it way too often and way too long, is the bullying. In this case our heroine is quite capable of defending herself, though. Which doesn't mean she doesn't feel the shame and pain and sadness when bad things happen to her. It just means that she's capable of hiding those emotions for the world and coming up with great ways to get back at her bullies. It came with a delicious kind of tension!
I was also very pleasantly surprised with the second layer of the story. This story became, especially at the very end, more than a story about a girl with a scholarship trying to survive four years at a posh and expensive school with privileged and arrogant rich assholes. This is a story about a girl breaking free from a very dangerous world and maybe finding love and making friends along the way. The romance and the friendship might take time, but I'm looking forward to it already!