A review by lotusross
Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

3.0

“You walked into my life, tipped it upside down, and when it finally righted—you were right there in the center. In a very short space of time, you’ve changed everything.” He lowered his head. Against her mouth, he said, with a lightness he obviously didn’t feel, “Bane of my existence four years ago. The best part of it now.”

3.25/3.5 stars.

Full disclosure, it took me some time to get into this, the writing was so peculiar I genuinely started doubting my knowledge of the english language, however, I did end up pushing through and enjoying this... Granted, not as much as I thought I would, but nonetheless, I did.
However, I do feel like the romance was overshadowed sometimes, which was unfortunate because it had great potential to be even better than it was but alas it was just... fine. And the whole best friend having unrequited feeling for the mc just ruined it for me to be honest. There was absolutely NO reason whatsoever to put this in, it added NOTHING to the narrative... It just pissed me off quite frankly.

Anyway, all in all, this was a fairly good book, and I am looking forward to Pet and Matthias' book!