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Bully by Penelope Douglas
5.0
Short spoiler free review
This was romance i was shocked to like and felt weird at times when routing for a relationship that wasn’t even healthy. The characters are flawed and had depth and the plot flows along with characters and their actions. Jared is broken and lost and needs someone to help him back to the person he knows he truly is and it just so happens the only person with the power to do that is the girl next door, his ex best friend and his victim. I was dying to figure out happened to make Jared the way he is and for him to finally open and and when he did boy did a melt. The chemistry was off the charts and i could not stop reading until i found out what happens between them.
Spoiler Alert section
This is how bullies are made.
Yes bullies can be made from being the victim of bullying.
Tatum takes a year away in France hoping the event of the year behind her will fall away, the constant bullying she has endured went away when she did but when she returns things go back to how they were but before she knows it she’s fight back.
This was a book i jumped in to on my Kobo out of the blue after reading Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas. I was hesitant because a girl falling for her bully wasn’t something i would be in to but i have to surrender. I loved it. Tatum growth was great and you could see everything was getting to much for her but then she toughened up and started fighting fire with fire turning her in to a bully at times. The chemistry between her Jared was undeniable and i found myself wanting them to be together even though he was an asshole and didn’t deserve her. After that thought the book got deeper and we got insight in to the reason Jared was the way he was not that anything excuses what he done to Tate. Eventually though i started to feel more understanding when he tried making up for all the things he’d done to her.
Favourite scene was when Jared put lights and lanterns all over the trees that connected there house i thought this was adorable but what made the scene even better was he opened up to her and finally came clean about everything. This was the turning point for Jared character where we got a look at the real him and not the moody, arrogant playboy he was so good at pretending to be.
Favourite character in this was hard for me to decide al the characters have there down falls and that’s what makes is so realistic that these characters reminded me of real people with real problems. Tatum would probably be my favourite simply because we were in her head and i felt her feelings.
Yesterday lasts forever.
Tomorrow comes never.
Until you.
I hope Tate and Jared move forward and stick together and that he never hurts her again and that she finally begins to trust him with her whole heart.
This is a hate to love romance not only for the characters but for the readers to, i hated Jared and Madoc at the start but when they finally started being them selfs and stopped being hateful i slowly started liking them and then before i knew it was happy laughing at the ending. I got annoyed at K.C when she started dated Jared because you just don’t date the guy that has tormented to friend for years my anger slowly went away when i felt bad for K.C who was grieving the fact Liam cheated on her.
This was a book i was surprised by and i read it in one sitting and 7 hours with one book is very rare for me to be hooked that long but i was addictive.
This was romance i was shocked to like and felt weird at times when routing for a relationship that wasn’t even healthy. The characters are flawed and had depth and the plot flows along with characters and their actions. Jared is broken and lost and needs someone to help him back to the person he knows he truly is and it just so happens the only person with the power to do that is the girl next door, his ex best friend and his victim. I was dying to figure out happened to make Jared the way he is and for him to finally open and and when he did boy did a melt. The chemistry was off the charts and i could not stop reading until i found out what happens between them.
Spoiler Alert section
This is how bullies are made.
Yes bullies can be made from being the victim of bullying.
Tatum takes a year away in France hoping the event of the year behind her will fall away, the constant bullying she has endured went away when she did but when she returns things go back to how they were but before she knows it she’s fight back.
This was a book i jumped in to on my Kobo out of the blue after reading Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas. I was hesitant because a girl falling for her bully wasn’t something i would be in to but i have to surrender. I loved it. Tatum growth was great and you could see everything was getting to much for her but then she toughened up and started fighting fire with fire turning her in to a bully at times. The chemistry between her Jared was undeniable and i found myself wanting them to be together even though he was an asshole and didn’t deserve her. After that thought the book got deeper and we got insight in to the reason Jared was the way he was not that anything excuses what he done to Tate. Eventually though i started to feel more understanding when he tried making up for all the things he’d done to her.
Favourite scene was when Jared put lights and lanterns all over the trees that connected there house i thought this was adorable but what made the scene even better was he opened up to her and finally came clean about everything. This was the turning point for Jared character where we got a look at the real him and not the moody, arrogant playboy he was so good at pretending to be.
Favourite character in this was hard for me to decide al the characters have there down falls and that’s what makes is so realistic that these characters reminded me of real people with real problems. Tatum would probably be my favourite simply because we were in her head and i felt her feelings.
Yesterday lasts forever.
Tomorrow comes never.
Until you.
I hope Tate and Jared move forward and stick together and that he never hurts her again and that she finally begins to trust him with her whole heart.
This is a hate to love romance not only for the characters but for the readers to, i hated Jared and Madoc at the start but when they finally started being them selfs and stopped being hateful i slowly started liking them and then before i knew it was happy laughing at the ending. I got annoyed at K.C when she started dated Jared because you just don’t date the guy that has tormented to friend for years my anger slowly went away when i felt bad for K.C who was grieving the fact Liam cheated on her.
This was a book i was surprised by and i read it in one sitting and 7 hours with one book is very rare for me to be hooked that long but i was addictive.