3.56 AVERAGE

dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is not a bully romance, as several reviews mention. They lightly tease her for two days before they're all instantly in love with her and calling her their queen. There's a lack of plot or character development, and some weird second character angst that doesn't really add anything to the plot except a sense of dissatisfaction when it isn't resolved in the short length. Only a few of the MMCs have an actual personality.

The good? It's a quick read: a couple hours. The spice scenes are well done for what they are, although I wish the m/m relationship that we get to see was fleshed out a bit more because I think it could be very sweet.

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it was pretty good, the smut was good but the plot was just okay.

I loved this way more than I thought I would! I read this in one sitting!

Every character was amazing and I loved how we got to see the fmc get alone time with each mmc!
The spice was spicy

3.5 stars

I loved the ideal of this story.. I'm totally down for the whole RH stepsister bully concept.

Unfortunately for me the characters read a little bit off. Don't come at me with pitchforks but on one page a male characters is saying how he's down with sharing the girl and as long as everyone is happy he was happy kinda deal..then the next page he's blowing a gasket over it. It was like the characters couldn't figure out their parts.. if that makes any sense.

I really wanted this story to work but it needs a little tweaking..Not much because the bones are there. This is a great storyline but the characters need to make up their minds on some things.

2 unimpressed stars


Booktok made me read this one and I should've known to stay far far away from this when I read the word academy.

Usually I'm a sucker for reverse harem but this one made me cringe so hard I nearly dropped it three times and only decided to finish because it's relatively short

Also couldn't really warm up to any of the guys. Giving them all some sort of tragic backstory isn't really the same as an intriguing personality.
Also stealing the FLs panties and clothes and then trying to convince the FL and us readers that they aren't bullies? Yeah, it's more like sexual harassment than bullying but I doubt that's better.

uhhh no i will not explain.

Ummm. I don’t know how to feel. 2.5/5

4.5 stars

Was this book the best book I’ve ever read? Absolutely not. But it was super fun and that’s why I am rating this so high.