Despite the warning in the summary, I actually found this to be remarkably wholesome and sweet and fluffy and full of surprisingly amazing displays of communication, like just— what is this, I showed up for some guilty pleasure kinky smut and got all that instead and I was shocked to be living for it

(The smut itself was alright. Like the actual “hardcore” and “bully” scenes were a little cringe, I skimmed most of that, and there’s actually a fairly minor amount of it for a book TITLED Bully, but once they start getting more ~intimate, it’s pretty sweet and the awkwardness of first love is adorable)

But then we ruin it all by throwing in the most random and out of character and bullshittiest third act conflict, I was baffled and blindsided and heartily disappointed