A review by lady_moon
Bully King by Andi Jaxon

emotional reflective tense fast-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Rep: gay MCs, gay side character

That was so messed up lmao 😭😂 People are all about "hurt my beloved, I hurt you" or "touch them and I'll kill you"  but here is "no one but ME can hurt my beloved"

Also, because I can't:

Roman: *a jerk, a bully, anon arrogant prick, insults Jonah in his first day, use his sister for dirty jokes to annoy Jonah, calls him the f-slur, but is just so attractive*
Jonah: I have a feeling I'll fall in love with him

Like, JohNA 😭😂 Pls, what attraction do to you, allo people, I'm getting really concerned here. This was so dub-con but jokes on you, I'm into that shit. Sometimes. I'll close my eyes for some other stuff that happened here because it was messed up as hell but it was also really damn entertaining. And it was exactly what I expected it to be so no surprise here. 

Bullies to lovers in real life are a hella big no but in fiction they're oddly appealing. Probably because it's a sub-trope to enemies to lovers and that's my favorite trope. But rivals to lovers, another sub-trope of it, just lacks something the other two have. I can't explain it, there's just something that doesn't work the same way here as with the other two. Anyway, strong, very close to toxic, bullies to lovers here, it is what it is. 
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