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𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: Save Me
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: Mona Kasten
𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬:Maxton Hall, Book 1
𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬:355
𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬:
𝙍𝙪𝙗𝙮 comes from a lower income family. She is a scholarship student at Maxton Hall with hopes of going to Oxford. She is a planner girl, head of the events committee. She caught one of her teachers with a student (Lydia - twin sister of James).
𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨 comes from a wealthy family and is head of the lacrosse team and thinks he can get away with anything since his parents donate a good amount of money to the school. He confronts Ruby about his sister’s predicament and then pulls a prank on her at the school dance that gets him pulled off the team and right into the events committee with Ruby.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐡𝐚𝐬:
YA Romance
Private/Prep School
Sports Romance - Lacrosse
Enemies to Lovers
Forced Proximity
Family Drama/Expectations
𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: I absolutely fell in love with this book! I read it in one sitting! I enjoy grumpy/morally gray MMC’s and strong FMC’s that give it right back at them. Ruby did this well with James. I loved all of the angst and banter between them. I really loved when they went to Beauforts in London to try on the Victorian clothing. Such a bummer that his parents were there. I adored the relationship development between these two - how they didn’t want to like each other, kept denying it but it was truly inevitable. James pulling her out of the pool had me swooning - the car ride home. There were so many tender moments just between them.
Even though a good chunk of the side characters were jerks, I really enjoyed meeting them too. I was slightly confused with what happened between Wren and Ruby when she transferred to Maxton Hall. I will patiently wait for the next book in the series, until then I will watch the adaptation of the Netflix show.
𝐂𝐖:Bullying, Teenage Drug/Alcoholism, Physical Abuse, Student/Teacher Sexual Relationship