BLURB
Finding out your mom is marrying some rich dude you’ve never met is enough to make any eighteen-year-old guy’s head spin. But for RJ SHAW, it only gets worse: he’s being sent to Sandover Prep for senior year. If there’s one place a misfit hacker like RJ doesn’t belong, it’s an ivy-covered all-boys boarding school for rich delinquents.
RJ knows his stay at Sandover will be temporary. Which means there’s no point making friends or trying to fit in. But the plan to remain antisocial goes awry when he meets a gorgeous girl in the woods on campus. SLOANE TRESSCOTT is pure temptation, with a sharp tongue and an ice princess attitude RJ’s determined to crack. Except there’s a catch. Sloane is the one girl he is forbidden from touching.
The headmaster’s daughter.
Good thing RJ doesn’t believe in rules. Sure, Sloane insists she’s swearing off guys this year, but their connection is impossible to deny. He wants her bad, and he’s going to win her over if it kills him.
Unless her ex-boyfriend kills him first.
DUKE, the ruling king of Sandover, will stop at nothing to get rid of his competition. Luckily, RJ’s unwittingly made some friends—his new stepbrother FENN, a pretty boy with a self-destructive streak; LAWSON, self-proclaimed agent of chaos; and SILAS, the All-American Good Guy who can’t actually be as nice as he seems.
If RJ wants to survive prep school and win Sloane’s heart, he’ll need to adapt—and fast.
And there’s Sloane. The easter egg I never expected out here in the rich kid rehab.
ARC REVIEW
Wealthy kids. Gossip girl vibes. Some mystery. Misfit was intriguing from the start and I continued to get sucked into the Sandover Prep world.
RJ is forced to go to a school he doesn’t want to. He isn’t one for making connections but that fails when it comes to Fenn (his stepbrother) and his two friends, Silas and Lawson. He also doesn’t expect Sloane….who just so happens to be the headmasters daughter.
I loved the back and forth when it came to RJ and Sloane. RJ wasn’t afraid to go after her. Sloane couldn’t fight the attraction and the connection that was between them for long. The two of them really worked well together and I felt brought out a lot in each other throughout the story.
I loved RJ’s relationship with the guys. They really seem like a unlikely bunch, yet they have a great bond with each other. Especially RJ and Fenn. I loved the progression of the friendship.
With that bombshell at the end I am intrigued on how everything is going to play out.
This story is told in multiple POVs, but primarily it is Sloane and RJ. I loved getting little bits and pieces from the other guys. It was a great introduction to them and some insight into who they are.
If you’re looking for a forbidden, somewhat suspenseful, darkish, NA romance check this one out.
