King of Campus
An Enemies-to-Lovers New Adult Sports Romance
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4,3 • 919 đánh giá
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A USA Today bestseller!
Roan King.
The uncrowned king of Barnett University. He's like a freaking celebrity around here. It's totally ridiculous. People, by which I mean grown women, actually stalk him on the internet. And around campus. Apparently, he's god's gift to both football and the ladies (I'm using that term loosely). All he has to do is smile and girls fall right onto their backs before spreading their legs wide. I've heard that he's already plowed his way through half the female population at Barnett. My guess is that he'll work his way through the second half before he gets drafted to the NFL later this year.
Yeah...I don't plan to be one of them. The guy is nothing more than a conceited player. You know the type—a steroid infused meathead coasting through college on his football prowess.
Ugh.
I have three words for you—avoid, avoid, avoid.
Need I say more?
I don't think so.
I've had the sad misfortune of running into him on campus. Literally. As in—I literally slammed into him before spilling my iced coffee all over that wide rippling chest of his (did I just say that?). What I learned from the experience is that Roan King is one hell of a cocky son of a—
I also learned that he has the most spectacular chest.
And don't get me started on those abs... I could probably cut diamonds on them.
Unfortunately for me, Operation—Avoid Roan King isn't going so well. Everywhere I go, there he is. If he wasn't so ridiculously hot, he would be a hell of a lot easier to forget. With his dark hair, shocking turquoise-colored eyes and (damn him) buff body, he's easily the most gorgeous guy I've ever laid eyes on.
Crap...see what I mean?
I have the sneaking suspicion that Roan King will lead to my utter ruin and downfall.
*This is a mature New Adult novel with strong language and sexual situations intended for readers over the age of 18*
Nhận Xét Của Khách Hàng
Great
Great
Liked Roan, Ivy not so much
I thought Roan and Ivy’s first meeting unexpectedly was pretty funny especially when Ivy accidentally spilled her iced coffee when she bumped into him while trying to get to class on campus!! Of course there’s the usual cockiness when it comes to Roan who’s used to women falling over him but not Ivy. I liked Roan. Underneath all that hotness and somewhat cockiness up front, he’s a pretty intelligent guy and holds his own in his classes. I didn’t like Ivy very much. I thought she was a tease and wasn’t a nice person. Come to think of it, most of the time was from Ivy’s narrative perspective or feelings more than Roan. A lot of back and forth whether or not she wanted to give Roan a chance or her estranged relationship with her widowed father. It’s a shame Roan’s view wasn’t much. It would’ve been something.
Don’t bother
There are endless problems with this book, but here are my top 5:
1. The male protagonist, Roan, is hot. We get it, you don’t need to repeat it every other sentence.
2. The female protagonist, ivy, could have had real depth: spent a year abroad, wants to dance professionally, mother died when she was young, father remarried quickly and had more children. Instead, Ivy is a whiny, immature pushover who is neither driven nor focused, and her character arc is unrealistic at best. For example, 5 years of issues with her father magically disappeared after one visit, yet nothing was actually addressed.
3. Mind-numbing dialogue, internal and between characters.
4. Back to Roan. Roan is an entitled tool who thinks women aren’t worth getting to know, because amazingly, none have shown any interest in getting to know him. But Ivy, of course, is the exception. Yeah, no. Any guy who has this low of an opinion of women has to have a reason, a backstory, but the author couldn’t cobble one together and his character progression is illogical. The author just waves a magic wand . . .
And finally,
5. The internal dialogue often goes off on a tangent that is completely unrelated to the conversation, and when the dialogue continues, the conversation doesn’t pick up where it left off.
All in all, a true disappointment.