Review: the Peer and the Puppet

Title: the Peer and the Puppet
Series: When Rivals Play
Author: B.B. Reid

THE PUPPET

Borrow the bike. Win the race. Collect the cash. It should've been an easy job. Ran out of town with a broken leg and a lawsuit, my mother's latest flame swoops in like a knight in gilded armor. Blackwood Keep is a place I don't belong, and I'm not the only one who knows. To the boy across the hall, my savior's only son, I'm a stray looking for a bone.

He's lord of the manor.
King of the academy.
And number one on my shit list.

THE PEER

I have no intentions of becoming a happy family with the social climber and her wild daughter. A bottle of Jameson and a cracked skull gets my problem shipped to reform school, but I didn't bank on her returning.

Four's out to get even, and she almost had the perfect plan: expose the privileged kid moonlighting as a gangbanger. She's smart, but she'll have to be smarter. Sending her away won't be good enough this time. I'm going to have to tame the little troublemaker. To the girl across the hall, the one without a name, I'm nothing without my silver spoon.

She's lady of the trailer park.
Queen of the swamps.
And my new favorite pastime.

The Peer and the Puppet is a standalone romance, however, the series is one story. The plot introduced in Four and Ever's story will continue in the following novels. Content suitable for 18+.

When Four Archer's life is uprooted because of her mom's latest fling, under the pretense of "keeping her safe" Four makes a rival in her new home upon meeting Ever. All she's wanted was to race, but now she's unwelcomed in her new lavious home. After Ever gets her shipped away to reform school, here never expected her to return, and now set on revenge. Ever's only hope is to try and tame the troublemaker that lives across the hall, but has he finally met his match?
I loved this book! It was a bully romance between Ever, a rich and spoiled boy who always gets what he wants and Four, a girl who grew up with next to nothing- including a name. Ever tries to make Four into his little puppet, someone he can boss around and pull their strings to do whatever he wants, but Four is stubborn, strong willed, and set on taking Ever down for shipping her away. I cannot wait to read more of this story, and town of Blackwood Keep. 4.5⭐ out of 5⭐.