My favorite bully-trope story of all time is, aptly named, Bully by Penelope Douglas. And the trap of high school and being under 18 (and thus unable to willingly escape said trap) is a natural setting for this kind of story to truly flourish. I love reading about powerful alphas and romantic push/pull. And the whole 'high school bully trope' is one that I truly love to get behind. I am VERY talented at suspending belief for the sake of a good story.

Now, before we go any further, I should say this. Or something.Įven if it DID make would still not justify why these supposed teenagers have so much power that even the school principal does what they say. Something about two families founding the town and then one family wanting to be more 'gangsta, yo' so they brought in three other families and these current 'Brayshaw Boys' are descendants of those wannabe mafioso families.

In fact, they apparently run the town for.some reason? Yeah, my brain actually hurt after trying to make sense of their ridiculously convoluted back story. So the premise behind this story is that these idiots guys 'run' the entire school. In fact, there were so many glaring issues with this book, I don't even think I have the time or the energy to get to them all.īut fear not, friends. In other words.everyone around me is roaring with applause and I be over here like, wuuuut? What did I miss?Ĭause this 'performance?' Was a total train wreck.Īnd yet, pretty much almost everyone I know decorated this thing with gold stars like a General getting ready for a fucking military ball. So this was me after finishing this book:

Meagan brandy reign of brayshaw