☆☆ AVAILABLE NOW ☆☆ Treacherous by Alex Grayson & Melissa Toppen! + My Review

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Title: Treacherous
Authors: Alex Grayson & Melissa Toppen
Genre: High School/Bully Romance
Release Date:
Senior year was not going how I planned.
It was supposed to be an amazing year—the perfect year.
And it started out that way… until my mom remarried, and I found myself in a new town, at a new school, and living with quite possibly the most conniving person I had ever met.
But my horrible stepbrother wasn’t even the worst part.
It was his best friend.
Zayden Michaels.
Gorgeous. Unpredictable. Treacherous.
The kind of guy who sends most sane people running in the opposite direction.
He hated me from the first moment he saw me.
He made it his mission to make sure I knew it too.
I became the target—the bullied.
Until suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
But in a world of rumors, games, and deceit, you never really know who you can trust.
Sometimes the best deceptions are the ones you never see coming.

MY REVIEW:

This was a little different from other bully romances I’ve read. Not sure I’m the target audience for this one. I liked the writing for the most part and the characters are fairly fleshed out with lots of drama, emotion and angst. Stepbrother Oliver starts out horrible as Rylee moves in when their parents marry and starts going to his school. It takes most of the book to finally find out why he hates her. He does some nasty things to her but damn that’s what locks are for girl. Rylee’s pretty savvy and has a backbone so I didn’t buy that she would have left herself open like that. Oliver has his mean girl posse and best friend, Zayden to help with the harassment but soon the attraction between Rylee and Z turns real. Z goes from 0 to 50 overnight. The romance between the two is a slow build mostly because Rylee doesn’t trust his turnaround. Z is a complex character with family and anger issues that he handles with underground fighting. Seemed unlikely to me as well as some of the teen antics and behaviors. Rylee and Z’s romance was one of the best parts of the story but the drama at the end was OTT. There was some repetition and I started skimming in parts. I can’t decide if I like Rylee’s friends or not. I was a little surprise with the ending and couldn’t decide if it was a setup for future stories with the kids in college. Maybe, but I not sure I’ll check it out.
ALEX GRAYSON

MELISSA TOPPEN

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I love books! I have been reading for as long as I can remember. I was the kid with the flashlight under the covers reading until the wee hours. Books were my refuge. I was delighted to discover tree climbing. I would take a book and climb to the top of a Mimosa tree and read for hours...and of course ignore my mother calling for me to do chores. I was committed to reading all of the Nancy Drew stories. Ned was my first book boyfriend. When I was in my early teens I discovered Harlequin romances. I feel in love and it changed my life. I was in love with Love 💕 That’s something for a girl who hadn’t been kissed yet. When I read “he thrust his throbbing member into her womanhood” I was lost to discovering more about this particular brand of romance. But I don’t just enjoy romance reads. My father-in-law introduced me to the high fantasy genre and I loved it. When I bought my first Nook the world of books really took me by surprise. I was enthralled with all the available genres and to my delight I discovered erotica. In most cases, I was with family on visits to bookstores and you don’t peruse those even if they carried them. Oh the shame of it! ;) Thanks to Nancy Drew I still enjoy mysteries along with romance, fantasy, erotica, paranormal, steampunk, thrillers, and well, most anything except a horror of a horror. My favorite might be romance suspense but it’s hard for me to pick just one. I had a serious health issue a few years ago and was forced to quite working after building a career I could be proud of. It was devastating and depressing. I lost myself in books and now spend my days (and nights) reading. I am so appreciative of authors and the wonderful storytelling I’ve found in books. It takes me away from my troubles and introduces me into a world like no other. I love books!