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Title: In the Arms of the Elite

Series: Rich Boys of Burberry Prep #4

Author: C.M. Stunich

Genre: Bully, Romance, Reverse Harem, High School, Dark, Contemporary, New Adult, Fiction

Trigger Warnings: foul language and sexual scenes; any sex featured is consensual

Date Started: February 15th, 2023

Date Finished: February 16th, 2023

Status: Finished

Rating: 3.5/5

Sypnosis: Choose between the rich boys.
I’d rather face the Harpies than make that choice.
How can my four years at Burberry Prep really be coming to an end?
No, Tristan, Zayd, Creed, Zack, and Windsor are everything to me right now.
My strength, my passion, my heart, my empathy, my joy.
Love is a cruel master, but I have no one to blame for this but myself.

***

We fell in love with the charity case.
Idols of the school, the kings of the campus, and we’re nothing without her.
Marnye Elizabeth Reed.
This girl has twisted our world upside down, but the Infinity Club is about to knock us all on our asses.
Big money, political ties, family bonds, obligations: shit is going down at the academy.
The rest of our lives, the rest of her life … it all comes down to this one, final moment.

Review: The end has come.

And so has the final settling of the score.

We have reached the end of the series. The Idols of Burberry have grown on me considerably and I have come to love each and every one of these assholes. They have not been perfect but flawed in their own way. Their lives have changed. Some for good while others have had their whole world shaken and destroyed.

Marnye has still not changed even in the slightest when it comes to character development. She still is dumb, can't make a decision, and it takes her forever to realize that those Harpies are not after just harming her but they want her dead. There have been instances that this theory has come to fruition and yet she either has little brain cells or just doesn't believe it could happen. There were times I wanted nothing more than to reach into the book and smack the hell out of her.

I think she was the only part of the book that actually pissed me off. I had long hoped that she would do some growing up and even gain some brain cells that just did not happen.

But this was a perfect ending to the series. I know I will have to read another series but "Orientation" and I am hoping the female lead is much better than this one.

Title: Bad, Bad Bluebloods

Series: Rich Boys of Burberry Prep #2

Author: C.M. Stunich

Genre: Bully, Romance, Reverse Harem, High School, Dark, Contemporary, New Adult, Fiction

Trigger Warnings: foul language and sexual scenes; any sex featured is consensual

Date Started: February 14th, 2023

Date Finished: February 15th, 2023

Status: Finished

Rating: 3.8/5

Sypnosis: Break the rich boys.
It’s tricky, but doable.
Jerks like them don’t deserve to rule Burberry Prep.
No, Tristan, Zayd, and Creed are going to pay, and I plan to make an example of them.
Then there’s Zack, the varsity football d*ck. Oh, and did I mention a prince just transferred to the academy? Whatever will I do with those two?
Revenge is wicked sweet; I can’t wait for a taste.

***

Defend ourselves against the charity case.
We’re the Idols of the school, the kings of the campus.
Marnye Elizabeth Reed.
That girl is nothing like the ones we’re used to. We just can’t decide if we hate her … or love her.
She might come from nothing, but she sure is determined to stir up something at the academy.
She says she’ll meet our challenge dead-on; we’ll make sure she regrets that.

Review: I really wish people would stop adding young adult to dark romance fiction. This should never be geared toward them. And this book, even despite the fact the characters are fifteen to sixteen years of age, is one of them that should never be allowed to be picked up by a young adult unless of age to read these.

Now with that out of the way...

This book picks up a bit after the first book. Marnye hasn't quite changed in character. She feels still a bit like she was in the last book - no real character growth. She is vengeful and still in love with the boys which broke her heart. She is still literally obsessed with them and not in the sense of really returning the favor of an "eye for an eye".

We now have a British prince added to the mix. The tenth in line to the British throne. Not one from a country we never heard of but of Britain itself. A bit of a black sheep much like his cousin, Harry. A prince notorious for causing trouble for his family. And now he has been placed at Burberry where he first meets Marnye before meeting the Bluebloods of Burberry Prep. And when he does meet them, he turns them down. He prefers the company of Marnye and her group.

We also have Zack. Much like the Idols of Burberry Prep, he made Marnye's life miserable in the past and though he does try to amend his ways, she is not quite ready to forgive.

But the funny thing is she is willing to forgive others. This made no sense to me. I would have thought she would do the same for him, but it is apparent that she holds a grudge against him no how much he tries to undo the things he has done.

As for the Idols, they seem a bit remorseful but not quite. Some of them even warn Marnye of the plans from the girls. They still have a dislike for her but there are feelings? It was just a bit strange for me especially since they sought to humiliate her in the last book.

But what do I know.

Once again, a bit of plotholes here and there. Some inconsistencies with Marnye like her love for History. I am a big fan of History and I keep books on my Kindle for me to read. You do not see this with Marnye. She never bothers picking up a book nor do we see her joining a History club. All I see is her vain need to join the cheerleading squad.