Book Blurb:
I crashed my shitty yellow VW Beetle into Calix’s Aston Martin.
To be fair, he deserved it.
But Calix and his friends, Barron and Raz, they don’t see it that way.
Not that it matters.
They’ve bullied me for years, and I’ve never known why.
At least today, they have something real to be pissed about.
All of which would be fine, if today was a normal day.
But it’s not. It’s far from normal.
My mantra has always been: this too, shall pass.
But not today.
Not the worst day of my life.
Hot bullies, busted cars, and pain.
Somebody kill me now.
Tropes:
*High school Bully Romance *enemies --> more *Why Choose *Spice
*Kissing between F/F & M/M *death *Dark Romance *Fantasy *Ground Hog Day vibes
*Time loop story *State Challenge Arkansas
Thoughts:
This is my first book by this author, I love the movie Groundhog Day and needed a book for my 50 states challenge set in Arkansas so figured I would give this one a go and I'm glad I did.
Karma (FMC) is stuck in a time loop situation for an unknown period of time to start with it's Devil's day which is taken very seriously in their town with a huge party thrown every year. Our FMC goes to a wealthy private school but is not from a wealthy family and has been bullied by many of the other students including our MMC's Calix, Raz and Barron.
Karma's initial day begins with her waking up in her car after she has very clearly been involved in a car accident with one of her bullies Calix... he naturally is upset and he and his friends threaten Karma telling her not to bother showing up to the party tonight... they take her car and trash it as a prank and basically rub this in her face later at the party... basically her whole day just keeps getting worse she gets in an argument with her family, steals her mom's car and crashes... expecting her life to be over she's surprised when she wakes up in her car at the time of the accident from the day before only everyone else is acting like these events haven't happened before... what is going on?
It takes Karma a little time on repeat to get things together, depending on how she interacts with her friends, her bullies and her family depends on how her day will go sometimes she ends up locked in a room, finding out her friends secret, but no matter what happens usually there is an embarassing illicit video that gets leaked of her and Calix from the year before when they got together... even though there are supposed to be no phones at the party. The other thing that happens is she can't seem to make it so that someone doesn't die at the end of her day before the reset occurs.
The MMC's are bullies so things are dark and they often treat Karma and others poorly, they are wealthy and run the school because they can.
While in this loops Karma figures the best way to know her enemy is to get closer to them... she begins to get closer to each guy in turn and over time finds out that maybe their strong emotions towards her isn't hate at all... but love another strong emotion.
There are a few mysteries in this story surrounding Karma, who is releasing the illicit video? she quickly figures out it isn't one of her three guys... but who else could it be and why would they do it? She is at the bottom of the barrel already in the scheme of things as far as high school heirarchy goes. The other mystery is how can she create a perfect day that doesn't end with anyones death? It seems every time something is going right... something still goes very wrong.
This book is of course repetitive throughout being as she is reliving the same day and just trying to recreate things that worked in prior days vs. trying new things to see what happens to change the day and try to figure out what she could potentially do differently to get out of this loop.
Karma struggles as she gets to know the guys individually because now that she's been involved with each guy how could she possibly pick one over the other? Would there ever be a day she could have all three? She struggled as each day was starting from scratch with all of the guys.
I did struggle with some of Karma's decisions during some of her days... but I get that she's a teenager too so was acting her age by making some of these choices. Being a high school bully romance there were times that I didn't like the lead characters much or their behaviors... but they did seem to have some growth towards the end.
Check your trigger warnings if you read this one it a dark romance and there are a lot of darker elements in the story.
Have you read this one what did you think?
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