I'm noticing a pattern with Rebel Bloom's books. The plots are usually recycled with different character names and settings but the storyline, conflict and conflict resolution stays very similar. This isn't entirely a bad thing, it means there usually aren't any unpleasant surprises and her books are a safe place to return to for palate cleansers or a light fun read.

This would have been a 4 star read if it weren't for the senseless big conflict.

The public humiliation felt very very out of character for these 3 particular MMCs  who were very protective and kind to the FMC from the start. Maybe in another book with a different set of love interests it would make sense but here, it felt rather forced. It just didn't align with any of the boys to treat her like that, especially Booth, the most levelheaded guy who was not a fuckboi seemed to cherish the FMC dearly. It was extremely out of character for him to follow along and participate in such a cruel "revenge". He seemed like the one out of the three who would get mad at the other two, and confront the FMC for her side of the story. Even for Fisher, it didn't really fit with his personality to be like this.

I still enjoyed the other parts of the book but I'm still very "wtf?" at the conflict as it didn't make sense to recycle this kind of conflict for this particular set of characters. It didn't make sense at all and I was very disappointed at the direction it went to. I was mollified by the way it resolved but it still left a bitter taste in my mouth.