Review: Alpha Bully

Alpha Bully by Renee Rose
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Note: An ARC was provided generously in exchange for an honest review.
Another Note: The age limit for reading this novel is 18+ as it touches on mature topics and ideas.

“She’s mine to torment and I’m going to enjoy the f*&k out of it.” (Cole Munchmore, sounds like a breakfast cereal name combined with a biker gang first name, but whatever).

And torment he did, especially me from reading this novel. Moving on....

My version of this story:

We first meet our heroine Bailey, who's an outcast at her school, Wolf Ridge High and is also afraid of driving, god knows why.

She's late to school and asks her next door neighbor Cole if he can drive her there. Cole is our resident star football player and jerk to Bailey ever since she transfers to their school. He says no and makes fun of her, etc, etc.

Next thing you know, She reaches school anyway through the help of a junior and befriends her. We get both Bailey's and Cole's view in the four chapters I read, each having their own view on the same situation and progress forward to more moments between Bailey and Cole, the secret Cole hides and his own anguish over his father losing his job, all these problems are answered as the chapters flow on and on.

Cole hates her guts because her mom took his dad's job away.

BUT...

The impressive fact is she has no idea that her mom even took Cole's father's job, resulting in his family being disturbed and his ever growing vengeance against her and her family, she thinks it's his idea of a good time, by almost humiliating her in the entirety of the school.

This is like some twisted-up romeo, Juliet shit but with a plot-twist and not in a good way at all.

But yada yada yada, they fall in love and he forgets to make her pay, etc, etc. A HEA for them, hurrah..

My overall opinion on this story: The plot line was all good, taking revenge, wolves, romance, teenage angst, all my favorite shit. But the characters are terribly under-developed, the supporting characters do a better job of leading the story then the main ones such as for example when Cole and his father are fighting, she comes in and tries to help them apart.

Let's look at the facts and then this statement again.

Facts: Cole HATES her guts because Bailey's mother took his father's job.

The statement: Bailey tries to help by pushing Cole and his father apart from their fight.

Do you see what I am talking about now?

No?

Let me explain then.

You never try to help someone who should be handling their shit in their own home rather than making a public scene outside, unless you really prefer bruises for two weeks straight. Second is you don't interfere in your enemy's business, again this is the SAME PERSON who's made sure to wreck your school life and you HELP THEM? SERIOUSLY?

Who in their right mind helps their enemy? No, tell me, who?

This was one of the reasons why I dropped this novel, second was the fact that she's such a weak character in some situations. Such as if she so badly wanted to be a saint and help Cole and his father, she could've relied on his family or neighborhood watch team. But she does neither, instead running inside her home like a 13 year old who's just seen a horror movie and can't remove the image of the killing out of their mind.

Sigh, character development was the main reason why I felt like dropping this novel and pretending I never read this novel in my life. Otherwise, the romance, the plot, was pretty good which helped me read 4/14 chapters of this book.

It's a definite NOT RECOMMENDED novel after this overall honest review.

Until the next page,

-J.B

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