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Title: Devils' Day Party

Author: C.M. Stunich

Genre: Dark, Romance, Academia, Fantasy, Erotica, Young Adult, Adult, Reverse Harem, Contemporary, Time Loop

Warning: Drug use, Suicide

Date Started: January 13th, 2023

Date Finished: January 13th, 2023

Status: Finished

Rating: 4/5

Sypnosis: I crashed my shitty yellow VW Beetle into Calix’s Aston Martin.
To be fair, he deserved it.
But Calix and his friends, Barron and Raz, they don’t see it that way.

Not that it matters.
They’ve bullied me for years, and I’ve never known why.
At least today, they have something real to be pissed about.
All of which would be fine, if today was a normal day.
But it’s not. It’s far from normal.
My mantra has always been: this too, shall pass.

But not today.
Not the worst day of my life.
Hot bullies, busted cars, and pain.

Somebody kill me now.

Review: Imagine having to live the same day over and over again, but changing something each time.

Karma's life ends up in a time loop the moment Devil's Day arrives. She runs her car into one of her bullies and things just escalate from there. Even worse, every morning thing resets and Karma is forced to make changes each time and this changes the dynamic between herself and her three bullies. As each timeline changes, Karma learns that each one of her bullies has been hiding something from her and it begins to change everything she thought she knew. Now Karma has to find a way to stop the time loop and stop someone from dying each time.

So, this book is one of my favorites for the new year. I ended up gobbling it up one night and I seriously was hoping that there was more. I wanted to know about the boys. Everything with them changes each time and some even have slight memories of those time loops.

Karma and her friends are my favorites. I love how the changes in their relationship begin to change and I enjoy that her circle changes as well to try to include others such as Pearl. I felt so sorry for her because of her own situation and I think Karma trying to fix the things in her life by offering an olive branch is wonderful.

I also love Luke and Alice (I hope I am remembering her right). Alice seems to be the glue between their friendship. She may be pregnant and one of the quiet ones but she does have an impact. It is subtitled but the impact is felt.

This has been my first read of a dark romance where the female lead is not so whiny bitch (okay there are moments she does turn into one). I like how the impact of the time loop changes her in different ways.

I will be reading more from this author in the future.