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this review has some spoilers but to be honest, it is not worth the spoiler tags
Did this book make me nauseous? Yes.
Did I hate every single character in this book? Yes.
Was it addictive? Surprisingly yes.
(I should give it 2 stars because the writing was pretty good, it was hard to put down and the characters were consistently bad but I just can't)
I always avoided the "bully romance" phase but for some reason I wanted to try at least one book from this horrible genre. So, I only have myself to blame. I knew this wasn't my thing but I thought "How bad can it be??"
Well.
I have read some messed up romances (paranormal, barbarian, even alien romances) but this was on a whole another level. Vicious, our handsome bully is a mean asshole because he has daddy issues. He would hurt his friends, strangers and the girl he loved because he was just cool like that. His only explanation for his actions was "I am an asshole". Well, you didn't have to tell me that.
He kisses the heroine's sister to make her jealous, he blackmails her multiple times, he calls her names for the majority of the book but at 80% of the book he realizes that he has been doing all this because he was in love with this girl all along. OF COURSE he is in love with her. NOW everything makes sense and we can just forgive him. The funny thing is he doesn't even apologize for everything he put this poor girl go through. He actually has the audacity to blame her for trying to move on from him. And you might be wondering, why is this girl not calling the police? It's very obvious you see, because her bully is handsome and she is attracted to him.
I think the biggest reason why even thinking about this book makes my head hurt is because Vicious was such a realistic douchebag. I am okay with villains as love interests but Vicious wasn't a villain. He was mean just to hurt people. He didn't have an ulterior motive or a plan, he just liked hurting people. Maybe if Emilia was actually a messed up character as well, I would have enjoyed this more. She was so naive and acting so stupidly that I felt sorry for the girl the whole time. He didn't even grovel at the end to win her back. She was too ready for him to be back.
I guess that concludes my 2 day journey to bully romance. 2 days too many.
Did this book make me nauseous? Yes.
Did I hate every single character in this book? Yes.
Was it addictive? Surprisingly yes.
(I should give it 2 stars because the writing was pretty good, it was hard to put down and the characters were consistent
I always avoided the "bully romance" phase but for some reason I wanted to try at least one book from this horrible genre. So, I only have myself to blame. I knew this wasn't my thing but I thought "How bad can it be??"
Well.
I have read some messed up romances (paranormal, barbarian, even alien romances) but this was on a whole another level. Vicious, our handsome bully is a mean asshole because he has daddy issues. He would hurt his friends, strangers and the girl he loved because he was just cool like that. His only explanation for his actions was "I am an asshole". Well, you didn't have to tell me that.
He kisses the heroine's sister to make her jealous, he blackmails her multiple times, he calls her names for the majority of the book but at 80% of the book he realizes that he has been doing all this because he was in love with this girl all along. OF COURSE he is in love with her. NOW everything makes sense and we can just forgive him. The funny thing is he doesn't even apologize for everything he put this poor girl go through. He actually has the audacity to blame her for trying to move on from him. And you might be wondering, why is this girl not calling the police? It's very obvious you see, because her bully is handsome and she is attracted to him.
I think the biggest reason why even thinking about this book makes my head hurt is because Vicious was such a realistic douchebag. I am okay with villains as love interests but Vicious wasn't a villain. He was mean just to hurt people. He didn't have an ulterior motive or a plan, he just liked hurting people. Maybe if Emilia was actually a messed up character as well, I would have enjoyed this more. She was so naive and acting so stupidly that I felt sorry for the girl the whole time. He didn't even grovel at the end to win her back. She was too ready for him to be back.
I guess that concludes my 2 day journey to bully romance. 2 days too many.