REVIEW: Hood River Rat by K. Webster

53147372. sy475 Title: Hood River Rat 
Series: Book 1 in the Hood River Hoodlums 
Author: K. Webster 
Publication Date: April 30, 2020 
Rating: ★★★★☆

From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a MM high school bully romance called Hood River Rat!

Hood River was supposed to be the change I needed.
A fresh start.
An escape from my painful past.
Better in every way.

I’m a popular guy. Approachable. I make friends easily.
Cool car. Nice clothes. Good attitude.
Everything will be fine.

School is school.
I’ll keep my head down until graduation and try not to stick out.
College will be here before I know it.

Yet my first day proves to be anything but easy.
The Hood River Hoodlums—our school’s most notorious group of bad boys—have put a target on my back.
Their leader, Roan, hates me.
He calls me Rat.
To him and his friends, I’m a loser who doesn’t belong at their school.

I could pretend I don’t care about their hate.
If only Roan wasn’t so hot.
He’s mean, cruel, and sexy as hell.
My nemesis is impossible to ignore…and a secret part of me doesn’t want to.

Here I thought being gay was the worst of my problems.
Turns out, being gay and crushing on your enemy takes the cake.

This is a full-length high school enemies-to-lovers and new adult romance with high angst, suspense, and gutting emotion. It's book one in the Hood River Hoodlum series that will have interlinking storylines. Hood River Rat can be read as a standalone and starts off a four-book planned series that gives each Hoodlum a book. This is the only MM story. The others are MF. 


My Thoughts... 

*ARC kindly provided by the author and IndieSage Pr in exchange of an honest review*

I loved this book and this story and these character a lot!

This is an enemies to lover bully romance that focuses on Hollis and Roan. Hollis is the new kid to the school and of course Roan is the bully. I think that this book had the perfect balance of bullying, and romance in it. Some books that I have read that includes bullying, don't really have a good balance with the bully and romance elements. They sometimes have too much bullying and not enough romance. But this book had the perfect balance.

The relationship between Roan and Hollis was so sweet, they were incredible together. I could feel their chemistry from the beginning and it took them awhile to get together but oh was it worth the wait.

Both Roan and Hollis are complex characters they were each hurting for different reasons, but together they helped heal each other and comfort each other. They are perfect together.

This book was the perfect enemies to lovers bully romance and I am excited to continue on with the rest of the books from this series.


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