Well that was bad, and yet I finished it. This is a conundrum. Parts of it were legit bad, and parts of it were relatively interesting. I am not the kind who will hesitate much to DNF, I only have so much time, and yet here were are. I finished a book that had 5 exclamation marks on the first page, a book that used "shutter" instead of "shudder" multiple times, a book that explains everything to you like you didn't just fucking read it a couple of pages back, and a book with dialogue stilted enough that I imagine this author is a transcriptionist because bitches gotta be expanding shit. The villains are comical; they might as well all grow moustaches and start twisting them. The adjectives are rampant, and the author has that disease that makes them think they need to vary shit in such a way that we can't just say something, we need to accuse, offer, propose, admit, explain, bitch, argue, declare, clarify, etc. Also: '"I had this dream, and if he ever kisses me in real life how he kissed me in the dream..." I let it trail off.' YES THAT IS GENERALLY WHAT AN ELLIPSIS MEANS AT THE END OF A SENTENCE.

Ahem.

Anyways, I can't even really articulate what it was about this book that prompted me to actually finish it. The writing leans too young, and yet there are sexy bits (though not too many). The trauma these characters experience is just ridiculous. Like, one chick gets regularly shitkicked by her dad, in her underwear for some reason, and CPS just won't believe her even though the school has been documenting it for a while. Another girl is raped by like every male teacher at the school. There is really no need for this. Like truly, you could take those same traumas and crank them down a few notches and not have it affect the story. It's just ridiculous. It doesn't make it dark. It makes it hard to believe, and it makes me roll my eyes.

AND YET I FINISHED IT. So take from that what ye will.

This was a suspenseful, hot, STEAMY kind of book. If that’s what you’re in the mood for, pick this book up. There’s drama, mystery, miscommunication, and definitely some hot sex scenes!.

This series was not for me. Not into the fantasy and definitely not appropriate for the classroom. I did appreciate the teacher stepping in to save the main character daily