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Cruel Prince
by A. Jade
I swear this book has more drama than a teenager has crazy hormones! Full of passion, angst, bullying, competition and bittersweet yearning, this book captivated me in all its maelstrom of feelings.
Dylan and Jace were best buds since fifth grade. They had a lot of anger in their hearts, they were both misfits and lonely, hurting because their moms died when they were too young. They had a fierce loyalty that started to go wrong when Dylan fell in love with Jace and he rejected her advances. He was hurtful and didn’t give an explanation for his actions. Then suddenly, Dylan was thrust from the Royal Hearts Academy into another city five hours away because her father landed a higher paying job. Fast forward, four years later, she returns to Royal Hearts Academy and finds herself a pariah and everyone hating her, most of all, Jace.
In this book, we deal with a lot of issues and plot lines. Dylan’s father is in jail for embezzling; she has a bad relation with her father because he favored her gold-digging stepmother over her. Dylan’s aunt took her in for her senior high school year, so now she has to contend with a step-cousin who is a pothead, hostile, loyal to Jace who is his best friend. And on top of things, Jace is now hanging out with Britney, who used to be Dylan’s mega-enemy in junior high. In the midst of all this hostility, the only light is her new friend Sawyer, a religious but profane nerdy girl who gives Dylan the acceptance and support she needs.
There are other characters important to the dynamic of this story: Cole, Jace’s younger brother, Bianca, Jace’s baby sister, Tommy, a long-time admirer of Dylan who gives all of us bad vibes, a cast of mean girls and drunkies who attend the wild school parties. An important character in this story is Liam, Cole’s twin, dead while Dylan was living away. He’s front and center of the narrative and the reason for most of the hostility and bullying found in this book.
Dylan gives as good as she gets but can’t help the hurt that Jace causes her. Eventually she wins her cousin Oakley over and Jace has moments of closeness but repents and goes back to rejection. We see a very conflicted Jace who fluctuates between jealousness, protectiveness, yearning and desire to hurt. He lost his mother too young, tried to take care of his younger siblings in the face of a neglectful father and is so full of rage that he has problems containing it until he explodes. There are several incidents of violence that feel like a volcano erupting lava.
The book is narrated in dual POV’s and different time frames. The flashbacks progress in time and eventually brings us to the revelation of all the hostility. I found that the violent incidents were a little too harsh but otherwise the book was riveting. I loved reading it and am looking forward to the Cole’s story!
Dylan and Jace were best buds since fifth grade. They had a lot of anger in their hearts, they were both misfits and lonely, hurting because their moms died when they were too young. They had a fierce loyalty that started to go wrong when Dylan fell in love with Jace and he rejected her advances. He was hurtful and didn’t give an explanation for his actions. Then suddenly, Dylan was thrust from the Royal Hearts Academy into another city five hours away because her father landed a higher paying job. Fast forward, four years later, she returns to Royal Hearts Academy and finds herself a pariah and everyone hating her, most of all, Jace.
In this book, we deal with a lot of issues and plot lines. Dylan’s father is in jail for embezzling; she has a bad relation with her father because he favored her gold-digging stepmother over her. Dylan’s aunt took her in for her senior high school year, so now she has to contend with a step-cousin who is a pothead, hostile, loyal to Jace who is his best friend. And on top of things, Jace is now hanging out with Britney, who used to be Dylan’s mega-enemy in junior high. In the midst of all this hostility, the only light is her new friend Sawyer, a religious but profane nerdy girl who gives Dylan the acceptance and support she needs.
There are other characters important to the dynamic of this story: Cole, Jace’s younger brother, Bianca, Jace’s baby sister, Tommy, a long-time admirer of Dylan who gives all of us bad vibes, a cast of mean girls and drunkies who attend the wild school parties. An important character in this story is Liam, Cole’s twin, dead while Dylan was living away. He’s front and center of the narrative and the reason for most of the hostility and bullying found in this book.
Dylan gives as good as she gets but can’t help the hurt that Jace causes her. Eventually she wins her cousin Oakley over and Jace has moments of closeness but repents and goes back to rejection. We see a very conflicted Jace who fluctuates between jealousness, protectiveness, yearning and desire to hurt. He lost his mother too young, tried to take care of his younger siblings in the face of a neglectful father and is so full of rage that he has problems containing it until he explodes. There are several incidents of violence that feel like a volcano erupting lava.
The book is narrated in dual POV’s and different time frames. The flashbacks progress in time and eventually brings us to the revelation of all the hostility. I found that the violent incidents were a little too harsh but otherwise the book was riveting. I loved reading it and am looking forward to the Cole’s story!