Havoc at Prescott High Paperback – November 7, 2019

This review was written after reading the whole series, so it pertains to my thoughts on all the books, not just the first. It doesn't contain any spoilers. I give the first book five stars, but my opinion of the series declines with each book.I started really liking the series. However, the more it went on, the less I liked it. Overall, the storyline is great. I like the concept of the bad guys being the good guys. It's written with thought behind it. Several of the characters are very likeable. However, I think the story went on way longer than necessary. Usually, I hate it when a series ends, because I want more. This one I had more than enough, and I started to lose steam halfway through book four. New challenges arise each book, but there's one main antagonist that will not go away, and it gets old.Bernadette seems to become more and more, for lack of a better word, ghetto throughout the series. She starts off as kind of an innocent trying to write the wrongs done to her, but she becomes increasingly superficial. She becomes more and more focused on her fingernails and possessions, while criticizing the rich for being spoiled. The more ghetto she becomes, the prouder she becomes for it. She talks about caring about her little sister, but it seems like Aaron sort of takes over parenting Heather. Bernadette sits around at the beach, in the kitchen, smoking in the yard, or whatever, while she talks about Aaron taking care of the girls. It makes me feel like she's using Aaron, or pawning her responsibilities off on him, without putting in her fair share of effort. Then she spends a ridiculous amount of time bragging about her looks, her Prescott-ness (my word, not hers), and the fact that she steals from businesses constantly, and she just turns me off as a human being. She also brags about how great she is at poetry and metaphors, but I didn't think her poems were anything special, and many of her metaphors were actually similes. My rule of thumb is, don't brag about something unless you're actually good at it.Several times, CM paid no attention to the time of day. Bernadette would wake up late, start talking about making dinner, then suddenly it's late for breakfast time, then back to dinner, then morning again, back and forth multiple times. Then in the ridiculously long epilogue, Heather was fourteen at one point, then it says, "ten years later" but Heather is graduating high school in a week. I doubt she's graduating at 24, so this is just another example of not paying attention to the timeline.Other annoyances I had were her obsessions with the words "ebon" and "ratchet." Both were used excessively to the point I was irritated. I also really don't care what the name of Bernadette's lipstick is, what color it is, or the name of the song playing. All useless information for the point of the story. Also, I don't think anyone looks good in purple lipstick, so describing all the colors, and the awful sounding manicure she gets just makes her seem less and less appealing to me.I don't know when this series is supposed to take place, but it's some number of years after covid-19. I have no idea why it's mentioned multiple times throughout the series, even though it has zero basis on the story. Yet even though covid-19 is a thing of the past, Bernadette gets really into The Queen's Gambit. It makes zero sense for her to be obsessed with what would then be a long-ago miniseries. And for that matter, all the music she mentions throughout the books is also outdated. I'm not sure what statement CM is trying to make here.One point of writing really bothers me, too. I know a lot of authors do this and it doesn't bother me as much. I don't know if she uses this technique far too often, or if it's just my poor attention span that makes it more obvious to me, but either way, I don't like it. She'll start a paragraph with a character saying a sentence, sometimes even a partial sentence. Then she'll throw in a bunch of other sentences, outside of the character speaking. Then at the end of the paragraph, the character will continue talking. Sometimes when people speak, there is a pause between sentences. But it happens constantly in this series, and it makes the dialog feel disjointed. My brain has to switch between conversation and non-conversation repeatedly, and it's not necessary. I finally got to the point where I was reading all the dialog in a paragraph first, then going back to read the sentences in between, because I couldn't keep track of the conservation otherwise.I'm glad I decided to read all the books for free with kindle unlimited before buying them. I usually end up buying her books after I read them because I like them so much. I would consider it a waste to buy this series. I guess we can consider it even, since I bought the first two books in the Spirited series, thinking that's all there was, and she seems to have completely scrapped the idea of finishing that one.

✨FULL SERIES REVIEW (NO Plot Spoilers)✨Full Series:3⭐️Havoc: 4⭐️Chaos: 3⭐️Mayhem: 3⭐️Anarchy: 2⭐️Victory: 3⭐️Spice:🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Tropes/ Key Points:✨Enemies to Lovers✨Bully Romance✨Academy/High School Setting✨Reverse Harem✨Marriage of Convenience✨Multi POV (Flashbacks/ Later Books)✨Dark Themes✨Second Chance Romance✨Touch Her and DieTrigger Warnings:CHECK THEMPros:The plot in this series is impeccable. The premises was enough to hook me and keep me flipping through the pages. I couldn’t wait to see how it ended and to see how the guys handled each of the seven targets. It was a truly inspired plot line that I haven’t seen in so long. The revenge plot mixed in with second chance love and touch her and die from all five of the guys was amazing.The character development for the FMC as well as two of the love interests (Oscar and Callum) was exactly what you wanted. I liked seeing the glimpses into the past from when Bernadette was tortured by the boys from everyone’s POV. It was handled very well throughout the story in giving you tastes enough to leave you wanting, but not so frustrated that you deemed it not worthy. Oscar had the most development in my opinion as he took the longest to crack. Callum’s backstory was the most heartbreaking and I loved delving into his life to get inside his head.There are five love interests so you get each personality. It’s nice having each boy be so distinct that you truly do feel like they create one cohesive unit. Every guy has a role to fill and you aren’t left wanting in the romance department.Cons:The story is way too drug out. This did not need to be five books long. It could have easily been a trilogy and one entire book could be scrapped if she would have cut out all the filler sections. The pacing of the book was wildly inconsistent. You would have moments filled with action that seemed to be over too fast, moments that were just right… fast enough that it wasn’t dragging but slow enough that you felt like you had enough time to absorb everything, and moments that were so slow I felt myself falling asleep. Why did we need multiple shopping montages? Only two of them actually added anything to the story and it just was a waste of my brain space. The premise of the book was also drug out. There were numerous moments when they could have solved a problem but came up with some BS excuse to not do so. It was just a way to keep the book going instead of doing what they were quite literally hired to do. Not to mention issues popped up at the “perfect” time just to stretch it out even longer.Unnecessary repetitive descriptions of the guys as well as repeating that they were “broken monsters.” I can’t tell you how many times she describes the guys looks throughout the books. I wish I knew just how many times the word “ebon” was used cause it has to be up in the 300s. We established how they look in books one and two, you don’t need to keep telling us in book five. Not to mention, you clearly explain and SHOW that the men are broken and were turned into “monsters” due to their life experience, why are we still talking about it in book five?Too much Spice. I don’t mind spice in my books, but honestly why was there s** just for s** sake? It added nothing to the plot. I’m sure that if you cut about 20 s** scenes there would still be enough to fill one book on its own with nothing but smut. I like s** sprinkled in with my books, not the entire book. It was repetitive and honestly exhausting. I skipped so many scenes, it wasn’t funny.What is the infatuation with women and high school girls to slut shame each other? Why do we still call each other sl** and wh*** and bit***, then get mad when men do it. Do y’all not understand that by doing this to each other you are giving men permission to do it too? Can we please just stop with this childish and stupid behavior. I don’t care if it’s a high school book, the amount of dialogue that was shaming other girls was so draining. I rolled my eyes so hard they hurt.Consensus:It’s okay. That’s it, it’s okay. If you don’t mind potentially skimming by the end just to get to the resolution then this book series might be for you. It was so gripping up till book four but at that point I was so invested I had to know how it ended. Do I hate I read it? No. Will I recommend it? No. But just because it’s not for me, doesn’t mean it won’t be for you. Such a strong start to a disappointing resolution. Don’t get me wrong, they get a HEA, but the ending doesn’t overwrite the issue filled journey.

This book I first read when it first came out. This is the book that made me obsessed with reverse harems.Bernadette has called on Havoc. The 5 men who ruined her life softmore year of highschool. She needs them to enact revenge on a list of people. In exchange, they demand that she becomes a havoc girl.This a gritty, dirty, sexy, suspense RH romance. There is way too much to unpack with this story. Absolutely loved it.

Third time I have read them all. Love this series. If you like violence, real life, gritty romance this is a must read

Sterne: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Spice 3/5 🌶️🌶️🌶️Havoc war einer meiner ersten Reverse Harem Bücher die ich je gelesen habe. Die Hauptprotagonistin habe ich schon von Anfang an ins Herz geschlossen. Genauso wie die Havoc Männer.

Just finished this first book of the series and absolutely loved it.Its intensity is addictive and the story, as well as the writing itself is absurdly fluent, fast and easy to get you digging into the reality the author just immersed us into.Each one of the five HAVOC has his own personality and yet they work as a single organism. They just made up a family to get stronger and respected.But, they needed a Queen.And that makes Bernie, the perfect choice.In their twisted and chaotic line of thoughts, she belonged to them since preschool and should become empowered as soon as possible. She should clame the place (and their hearts) that were already hers.It’s a very different book and its subjects are very specific. So, as the resume at the beginning says, if any of this aspects bothers you, don’t go for it. But, if you are able to strip your preconceptions and see and appreciate the violent, crude, yet, lovely universe CM created, so, just jump or dig deep into it.Just, please, do it with an open mind and bare hands.

Premetto che è un libro di fantasia incentrato su una teen gang che ne combina di cotte e di crude, quindi ci sono momenti di pura violenza, altri hot, altri ancora introspettivi da parte della protagonista. Bernadette frequenta la Prescott High, una scuola dove ogni giorno gli studenti vengono perquisiti. Al primo giorno del nuovo anno scolastico lei dice ad alta voce Havoc, il nome della teen gang, perché vuole vendetta verso sette persone a qualsiasi costo. In cambio le viene chiesto di diventare un membro del gruppo oltre che il loro giocattolo personale. Lei dice di sì, pensando alla salvezza della sorella più piccola, ma non sa che oltre alla vendetta si mescolano sentimenti di altro genere....primo libro di una trilogia, da leggere tutto d'un fiato