Review: Church by K.G. Reuss @KGReuss

Church by K.G. Reuss

Series: The Boys of Chapel Crest #1

Publication date: April 21st, 2022

Pages: 434

Spice Rating: 🔥🔥🔥

Synopsis:

The last time I spoke was eight years ago when my best friend tried to kill me. I never dreamed my silence would break with a scream.

Being sent to Chapel Crest after my new stepfather deemed me a heathen seemed like a blessing compared to staying with him and my mom. I was a mute demon in his eyes, and when the rod didn't beat the evil out of me, he prayed Chapel Crest could.

I envisioned the religious academy would become my sanctuary. I was wrong. So very wrong. Chapel Crest was an asylum moonlighting as a religious school. It's where the meds take out the demons in your head or the punishment from the staff will. 

If this place and its rules didn't break me, Dante Church and his cult of bullies would.

They called themselves the Watchers. They were dark and ruthless--everything a girl like me should avoid. But maybe something was wrong with me because the thought of being on my knees for the four devils appeals to me.

Even if it meant I was praying for survival. 

Going to Church took on a whole new meaning at Chapel Crest.

Church is book one of The Boys of Chapel Crest. It's a dark bully romance with four guys chasing one girl. There is no choosing. Only begging. And lots of praying. Please read the foreword.

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Review:

Sirena Lawrence was not crazy. She was a victim of a traumatic experience with her best friend at the helm. The trauma has left her with an inability to speak or communicate with others. She was well aware of what was going on around her but she had shut herself off from the world so that she no longer felt a part of it. After her stepfather failed in beating her into submission and getting her to speak again her family shipped her off to the Chapel Crest Asylum for Sirena's final year of high school. There she becomes the focal point of the worst of the worst. Four boys who have a wealth of psychotic tendencies of their own and their leader has decided she will belong to them. However, it seems her best friend is also at Chapel Crest and has decided to finish what he started when they were 10 years old. The bet is on, who can make the mute girl scream? Whoever breaks her silence keeps her forever. Will she crack under the trauma of her near death experience with her best friend or the psychotic tendencies of the four leaders of the school?

I am absolutely ashamed with myself for enjoying this book as much as I did. It was so dark but also incredibly tantalizing to watch Sirena battle her demons. While the boys were a bit unorthodox in their attempts to open her up and get her to address her fear, they definitely managed to do just that. It is the exposure therapy that she actually seemed to need. The feelings for each of the boys changed with the flip of a page. Sometimes they were sweet, other times crazy and sadistic. It varied and made me truly waffle between who I liked the most out of them (I did finally settle of preferring Stitches. I don't even know why). 

I think this book is not for the faint of heart and if you like cutesy romances with a lot of hearts and rainbows, this is not for you. But if you like raunchy, dark, I-hate-you-as-much-as-I-love-you heat, definitely dig into this read.