Rebellion

"Rebellion by Siobhan Davis is the second book in the The Sainthood – Boys of Lovell High series. This book has some I think major differences from the first book. This book is still a reverse-harem but it’s no longer an enemies-to-lovers trope. The supposed “enemies” have now found out that most of their issues were due to poor communication and complete misunderstandings. Another difference in this book is there are different point-of-views (POV). Each of the boys have a chapter where they share their POV with most of the chapters being the main female character. <br/>Harlow, the main female character, is still coming to terms what it means to be in love and if she really is with all the boys. Since the boys and Harlow are all in good terms, they are trying to keep Harlow safe. She has multiple gangs after her especially after playing both sides for so long. Sinner, one of the gangs’ leaders, has brought Harlow into their Sainthood Gang as an initiate. The boys are trying their best to keep Harlow from having to finish two of her missions which involves murder and non-consensual sex with the leaders of the gang. There’s lots of planning and subterfuge and trickery between the gangs and the main 5 characters and all in the name of keeping Harlow safe and reclaiming the Sainthood and making it better from Sinner. It leaves you on a cliff-hanger that makes you want to dive into the next book right away though.<br/>One thing I really liked about this book was that it lessened the anger that Harlow has and makes her show her opening up. I believe this can also be shown in the fact that it does have multiple POVs. At first, she couldn’t see the others’ perspective and their thoughts on things because she couldn’t trust them. She couldn’t even trust her own emotions, much less theirs. Now she’s starting to realize she’s in this for the long haul, the good and the ugly and dangerous and after many conversations to clear things up she can trust the boys. Now we are able to see their POV’s and understand where they are coming from too just like Harlow. <br/>One thing I did dislike about this book was that it lost some of the angst that enemies-to-lovers books have. Now the angst or issues are with the environment, not the characters. This may be just a personal issue since once the characters are in love or happy, I tend to not enjoy the book as much, but this book portrays more about the issues going on with the gang versus the angst and anger that the characters had in the first book. There’s still anger and issues in the beginning when they are still unsure of each other from deceit and betrayal but that eventually goes away. <br/>This book gets 3 stars out of 5 stars in my opinion. I wasn’t as obsessed with this book and had to keep myself from distractions to finish it. It has a good plot and story line and works well with the first book and makes me want to read the third book of the series. It was well edited as I couldn’t find any issues."

"with the risk of sounding absolutely morbid, I will just say that I wish that there were more death in this book. I feel like it would have added more to the conclusion of this series and I didn't feel for the death in this book. I actually didn't care about it... at all. <br/><br/>Everything in this book is tied up in a neat little bow, but, I wish it were about 100 pages longer. Am I glad that I finished this series? Yes, I am. Would I read it again? No, probably not. Was it bad? No, absolutely not. I just feel like it could have been so much more, even for the time it was written. <br/><br/>If I had read this series when it came out and I was still 15 years old, I think this would've been a <br/> favorite series, it has all the elements of a favorite series to me but, I think I'm just a bit more grown-up for this series now. I still loved it, I still loved the story but I think I need something a bit more adult now. <br/><br/>If this is a trope or theme that you enjoy, I would 100 percent recommend that you read this series and then watch the show. If you know anyone in the 14-17 age range that enjoys reading, I would recommend this to them. If you don't mind things sounding a little more Teen than YA then I would say go ahead and read this it is still a great story."

"While I enjoyed this book I don’t think it was the best in the series. It was still good and fast paced, but I would’ve liked more out of characters I favored. However, you get to see character development from Wells, which is great to see, considering what happened to him in “Homecoming”. And I do like that you get to see protective Big Brother Bellamy again. He’s always been my favorite. "

"I liked the whole book but I don't think I gave a favorite part of the book "

"Good book, would definitely recommend and would read again."

"Bellarke"