#Lucas Corium

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Patton and Logan share an apartment in an old brownstone on a quiet street. They each have their quirks (as do their neighbors!) and, on the outside, you'd never expect them to actually get along.

But for all the surface differences, their love shines through.

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Corium University Trilogy- book review

- by aakanksha

Overall series Rating - 2.5 STARS

There are 3 books in the series:-

#1- King of Corium

#2- Drop Dead Queen

#3- Broken Kingdom

The reason why I gave this book a try:-

Trope-High school bully romance

Also touches the trope of mafia romance

I really liked the book covers

The follows the story of Aspen, who is sent to Corium University. A school that will teach them how to be better criminals. A school made for all the children of the bad guys, but Aspen was there because her mother believe it's the only place where she'll be safe after her father's traitorous act. Meanwhile, Quinton is the son of a renowned mob boss and a university big shot. There to escape the life he was into and hide from the rest of the world.

Reasons why I disliked reading it :-

At the first he was like "I don't blame her for what her family did" fair enough but THEN 2 seconds later he was like "I am going to ruin her life for what she did" so you do blame her after all huh?

Writing a rapist character is a thing, but making him feel no remorse is another level of sadism. Now I get it that you need to have neutral outlook while reading such book, trust me I do because I have read so many of such books and loved them. But in this book its traumatising. It's worrying how high this book is rated yet most people failed to point out this major red flag and proceed to say that they enjoyed the romance. 

"What do you mean no?" "You're drunk and I'm... not ready" "Did you not hear what I just said?"

Aspen's story broke me. The way she is bullied by everyone is too much; starve to almost death, verbally, physically and sexually assault. Yet, her character's build-up is also disconcerting, especially when her feelings do not match with her words. I mean after what he did to her in front of his friends was just too much.

The second book is still better than the first one, because he tries to be better but unfortunately is not. However this book ends with a horrific episode/ cliffhanger, after which you will have to read the third book as well.

The third book was by far the best one in the series, because even though there was too much of unrequired details on the rape episode, the after change in Quinton was good, How he treated her, protected her and was just there for her and also how his feelings didn’t change after the episode.

So I can say that the climax was not as gross as I hoped it would be. Everybody that at one time literally tried to kill Aspen (Lucas, Xander, Ren) have suddenly decided to like Aspen now for no discernible reason. Lucas was the most bizarre of all (but after the secrets revealed it kind of made sense). Things ended well for both aspen and quinton and also their family apparently.

So would I recommend this book? No... But you can read it at your own risk.

P.S - also if anyone is thinking if I disliked this book so much why did I bother to continue reading the series, well I don’t like to leave things in middle. So yeah, I’m a snob that way.