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Publication date: August 22nd, 2019
Pages: 310
DNF Percentage: 77%
Synopsis:
Briar Gildermann is used to being the Queen of Gildermann Academy, but after her boyfriend releases a sex tape? Suddenly she's a pawn in a game she has no idea how to play.
Gildermann Academy is where elite sons and daughters go to further their dynastic families' vast fortunes. Among her peers, Briar's humiliation knows no bounds when Flynn, Lennox, and Blake, each wearing their own crowns, find a wicked pleasure in destroying her reputation.
They'll stop at nothing until she's torn to shreds.
But the only question Briar has, is...
WHY?
Find out in THE SEX TAPE, a standalone bully, Why Choose romance.
**All characters are over 18**
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Review:
Briar enters the scene having already been exposed with her sex tape and her boyfriend already in a coma from a car accident. There are rumors and bullying galore and the head of those antics are her ex-boyfriend's friends Flynn, Blake, and Lennox. Briar's torment is the stuff of nightmares and it's unfortunate how much she had to put up with. The motive of the boys doesn't become clear until much further on and by then I had basically already given up on the book.
The plot of the story was so unrealistic and so farfetched that it just made me cringe. Add in the fact that the book starts in the middle of the story. The sex tape has already been leaked, her boyfriend is already in a coma, the torture from her peers is already in full force. It felt like I was reading the second book in a series and just forgot to pick up the first. And the fact that it had not only the mafia involved but some secret society? I just... no. Just no. Not for me. Not even a little bit.
I stopped reading at 77% so I gave the book a fair shake. I waited until they came together physically to see if the heat made the read worth continuing. It did not. While the sex scenes were some of the saving graces of the book, if all you're getting out of the book is hot sex it's porn not erotica. I struggled through it and slogged through the "twists" and "turns" and tried to logic out the characters choices and actions but it was just not there for me. It felt like the two authors who worked together on the book did not work cohesively. It did feel very patchworked which is understandable with two people working on the same book, but it's not supposed to read that way.
For me the book was a DNF. The plot was atrocious and incongruent, the characters were mid, and the sex can be found in any other Reverse Harem with a bit more connection because the characters and reader form connections. I feel the book could be good but it needs to be completely reworked.
