Synopsis
My life was meant to change when we escaped our past.
New family. New town. New school.I find myself living in a shinier version of hell, with a devil hell bent on crushing me. My new stepbrother, the heir to the Knight fortune and legacy, is also my senior year English teacher.
He doesn’t hold back on punishing me in class. Ensuring detention is always just the two of us where the sexual tension and forbidden desires run as hot as hades.
The three Kings that rule St Ivy and this town have also set their sights on me. Specifically, one who seems to have a personal vendetta against me. His callous gaze, wrathful mouth, and vengeful ways know no bounds.
His two devious best friends are no saints, with their irresistible smirks and flirty touches, some bordering on the line of possessive. Little do they know I made a promise to myself long ago that I would never again be a possession. They seem to think they can break me.
But these boys don’t know who they’re dealing with. I’ve faced monsters that would make them hide under their beds and piss in their pants. Monsters who taught me to put up impenetrable shields to keep me safe inside.
The irresistible torture of these manipulative Kings has me fighting my own demons.
I manage to resist the four of them until my walls slowly crack, my truths start spilling out, and I’m drawn into their secret world of lies and violence with no escape
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Review
I really enjoyed Corrupt Temptation, but it suffered from being so mysterious that it left me more confused than intrigued.
This is a dark bully romance, and while this first book seems to focus on Peyton and Colton mostly, this is a reverse harem. I liked Peyton, and I liked Colton. Colton is your typical alpha-male bad-boy, tattoo, piercings, and all. And Peyton is a girl with a past. There are three other guys involved, and we slowly get to know them as the book goes on, though the only one I felt like I learned much about was Tyler.
As I mentioned, Peyton has a past that is hinted at, but no details are given. As this book is told from Peyton’s point of view, I did think more information from her past would have come up, and it would have been helpful for the story. I’m not saying give it all away, but there was so little information provided that at the end of the book, I was confused as to what exactly was going on. Of course, the guys are also involved in some mysterious stuff, which was handled a little better. There are also a few things that I just forgive because fiction, but I would have been even more forgiving if I hadn’t been left confused.
I think my confusion will likely be cleared up soon, and I will certainly be reading the next book. However, this book certainly left me wanting more.
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