Dropout Series by Lux Carmine -Reading from Chess Club Dropout (Dropout Series #1) Starting July 25th 2019

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Everyone deserves a happy ending...At least the “good guys” do. That’s what the fairy tales want you to believe. But not everyone wants to live in a fairy tale. Not everyone believes in a happy ending. I certainly didn’t.

With the tragic loss of my mother and my grandmother I was sent away to live with my evil Aunt Sara. I had a new home, a new school and a huge hole in my heart.

Trying to get back a piece of who I used to be before the tragedy, I decided to join the chess club. In my old school I was the geeky girl, the one who got straight A’s and never dared to break a rule. I was the girl who’d never been kissed and wondered if I ever would be. But when I was kicked out of chess club one fateful afternoon my life changed forever.

That's when I met them...

The Lone Wolves scooped me up and took me under their wings. Jason, Kevin, Mike, Billy and Steven were playing the leads in the school’s production of Grease and that's where they shared something about themselves that they hadn’t shared with anyone.

I felt I was in a fairy tale with them...but the secret we all shared had the ability to ruin my new life…

Would we be able to live happily ever after or were we the “villains?”

** Chess Club Dropout is a contemporary young adult reverse harem novel that touches on first loves, cyberbullying, and other social issues.**

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32% (view spoiler)[Not finding anything extremely interesting or unique about this. Kinda corny and cheesy at times. Even the scene with her cousin losing her v-card in like two minutes was kinda lame. Don’t really know much about they guys yet to even differentiate between them. At this point all I know is there are five and they all like Ruby for no real reason that I can tell lol (hide spoiler)]
52%. (view spoiler)[So four of them are kind of in a relationship, while not talking about it yet mildly skirting around the issue a bit 🤷🏼‍♀️ The cheese factor has also gotten a bit worse as well as the dramatics. Not to fond of the high school mean girl drama that’s also suddenly risen up. And can’t figure out what is up with Jason (guy #5) who’s honestly been acting like a dick (hide spoiler)]
92% (view spoiler)[This is all just so weird and over the top. Now she’s in a sense homeless and for the time being staying at the guys’ foster home. Her aunt is a dick, even if she doesn’t get her relationship, she’s just a bitch. And her cousin doesn’t even stick up for her and yet she’s the one actually having sex with a douchey nasty guy no less (hide spoiler)]
Finished(view spoiler)[ not sure how I feel about this, it wasn’t great and it wasn’t horrible but it also wasn’t that good. The end was rushed along with most of the story and I still don’t have much to say about the guys. Funny how her dad is such a dick, says he’ll give her money and then surprise you have an inheritance so now it’s like he’s off the hook smh. Her aunt too, I mean I can understand not getting her being a relationship with five guys but she really brushed off the sexual assault attempt as nothing. It’s clear she just wanted ruby to be gone but geez what an asshole, considering her daughter is the only one actually having sex smh. I don’t know, will read the next but not sure about more than that. Need more of a story than this rushed high school dramatic hodgepodge that this was. (hide spoiler)]

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24% (view spoiler)[They’re on their way to LA. A little obvious from foreshadowing suggest Robbie, the would be rapist slash stalker will probably follow them and once again bring along drama. Hard to belive book one started in the beginning of a school year, lasted about two months maybe and now they’ve all graduated and still have yet to have sex. Doesn’t quite fit the narrative with how rushed it all is especially ruby experimenting (hide spoiler)]
52% (view spoiler)[Why would she not tell them about the stalker smh. Now things are a bit out of control and possibly dangerous. I don’t get why they never discussed their relationship and them becoming stars, I mean sure chances are slim but it’s something they def8nietly should have talked about (hide spoiler)]
76% (view spoiler)[About a year and a half so far for both this’ll book and book one. She has random newbie stalker who I still obsessed with Steven. She finally sleeps with one of them and of course wind she up pregnant, none of them seem happy about their relationship and jealousy is high. How am I to belive this will actually work smh (hide spoiler)]
Finished (view spoiler)[ well this book was short and that’s one positive. Ugh ruby is so dense and just blah I am still finding it hard to believe in this relationship. The addition of Cora is contrived and just ridiculous in an already ridiculous book. I’m assuming she’s working with Robbie which is also lame and just blah. Ugh don’t know why I’m gonna give the next one a go but maybe somehow someway the next book will be a little better and maybe actually interesting or even read believable at times. I’m not holding my breath tho. (hide spoiler)]

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27% (view spoiler)[Don’t know why she said even going home for the holidays. HEr aunt and father aren’t worth it, would have made more sense to just fly her cousin out. Glad all the guys are on board about the baby but their relationship still makes 0 sense. Like they don’t mind sharing her but don’t want to know about it smh. Seems like a failure not a making for HEA (hide spoiler)]
62% (view spoiler)[Geez so much more drama I can’t handle it. Her aunt and dad was obvious answer it’s just f*cked up, they both are horrible humans. And what is up with her cousin smh. Boob job, cam girl, random makeover and all these hookups, is she just acting out or did something happen? Everything is still outlandish and ridiculous but guess I wasn’t really expecting the series to get better smh 😕 (hide spoiler)]
80% (view spoiler)[ It sucks that they will all have their own apt. Also they can't even have a discussion about their relationship without fighting. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Why can't they all just come out and be clean and let the chips fall where they may. I think without the interference of the press and her stalker this wouldn't be as much of an issue. Still don't see their relationship lasting though smh. (hide spoiler)]

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Finished
(view spoiler)[Well I’m glad that’s over. I’m done. Even with that cliffhanger I just don’t care. This series is all surface, it lacks depth and interesting characters. The storyline is predicatable, unremarkable and boring. I still don’t know all the guys or who each is and what they bring to the table. They can’t even fathom one another being with ruby and I just don’t see or feel that their relationship would work. The threat was negatively surprising and it was obvious from book one who would be sticking around. I gave it my best shot with three, but I just can’t do one more. (hide spoiler)]