Spearcrest Knight by Aurora Reed
Tropes:
- enemies to lovers
- rich boy x poor girl (somewhat)
- boy falls first
- dark bully romance
- possessive MMC
- boarding school / high school
My Review:
☆☆☆ stars
"Don't Sophie. There's nothing to misunderstand or misinterpret. I like you, I've always liked you, no matter how unforgivably I've acted. I like everything about you. Your frown, your hair, your gorgeous fucking eyes, and your voice and your mind. I like your sharp tongue and your mean streak. I fucking like you so much my chest feels like it's going to explode. I even like it when you hurt me, because I'd rather be hurt by you than adored by anybody else."
I will NEVER not be a complete and utter sucker for the boy falls first trope. Never. In every romance book, it always seems to be the girl who falls first and ends up being the one who has fallen harder for the boy, but for Evan and Sophie's relationship, Evan fell first, and man did he fall hard.
In this book, you meet Sophie, a girl fully focused on her studies and graduating from Spearcrest without any conflicts or incidents, getting good grades, and most of all, avoiding the Young Spearcrest Kings to the best of her ability - which evidently did not work.
Evan Knight is one of the Spearcrest Kings who is determined to have Sophie one way or another. Both Sophie and Evan have known each other since Year 9, when Sophie first transferred to Spearcrest thanks to the hard work of her parents and an academic scholarship. Both Sophie and Evan begin to hit it off from the get-go, however, due to some complications and incidents that take place which I will not spoil in this review, everything turns into chaos between Evan and Sophie which causes different issues for them both...that is until Sophie was hired to tutor Evan.
Reading the quote above, it seems like Evan is this innocent love-struck boy who fell hard on his face for Sophie, right? Wrong. In quite blunt terms, Evan was a stupid hypocrite who has so many faults all throughout the book, that I'm conflicted about how I feel about him as I write this review. All in all, Evan did not have much of a reason to bully Sophie in the first place. If anything, it was his insecurities and his own self-centered issues that made him bully her - for what? Neither party gained anything from doing so and it was pointless in my opinion.
Thankfully, our main FMC, Sophie, had one hell of a backbone. If you have read tons of romance books in your life as I have, you will see that most FMCs never have a backbone, never defend or stand up for themselves, nothing. nada. Well, Sophie was so unlike that which was such a nice refresher. Poor girl has been through quite some hard stuff both with Evan and her life overall, yet she never let any of this deter her from sticking up for herself. With that being said, Sophie was still pretty annoying in many parts of the book in my eyes. She always made Evan out to be the bad guy 24/7, which is true cause he definitely was at points and had his own faults, but she wasn't so innocent and blame-free herself. I find that this book is one of those rare cases in which there isn't just one party you can blame (i.e the boy being the one at fault 100% of the time or vice versa,) both Sophie AND Evan had their faults, and played parts in the way their friendship broke all those years ago and why they went through the things they did.
Even at the end of the book, the way things ended, it didn't really feel like many things were resolved between these two. It felt like a sort of abrupt ending but then again, god knows how long the book would be if these two actually decide to sit down and figure all their different issues out. (Spoiler alert: it would likely be longer than 400 pages lol.) With that being said, mainly because of the abrupt ending, I don't really know how I feel about this book and Evan and Sophie's "relationship," if that's what it can be called anyways.
On the other hand, I saw on the author's Instagram that they were planning on writing more about Evan and Sophie's relationship and what happens between them, so I will have to wait and see to read that (lowkey excited for that tho)
ANYWAY, I will definitely be continuing with this series because I need to read the others' books now. ESPECIALLY LUCA because I love myself a good psychopath.
"Wanting Evan so much definitely is a mistake, but I never want to not feel the way he makes me feel."
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