Bully King (Kings of High Court College #1) by JA Huss-Review and Giveaway tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 5, 2020
Bully boys.
Arrogant tyrants.
Blue-blood bastards.
Call them whatever you want.
Around here, we just call them Kings.
Fancy boats.
Lakeside mansions.
Luxe watches and bespoke suits.
The Kings of High Court College act like Gods.
And Cooper Valcourt is the worst of them.
He is the bully king.
His family owns everything.
And his mission is to put me in my place and send me packing.
But Cooper and I have a history filled with secrets.
And everyone knows that power doesn’t come from having money.
It comes from holding secrets.
And I’m holding one of his.
A very dark secret that can bring him to his knees.
Bully King is new-adult, dark, bully romance from New York Times bestselling author JA Huss featuring boys with power and girls at their mercy. It’s a campus shrouded in lies and a summer rush into an elite society that can propel a poor girl straight into the ruling class.
If… she’s willing to pay the price.
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REVIEW:BULLY KING is the first instalment in JA Huss’ contemporary, new adult, KINGS OF HIGH COURT COLLEGE dark bully romance duet focusing on the twenty-one year old, King of High Court College Cooper Valcourt, and the late gardener’s daughter, eighteen year old, Cadee Hunter.
WARNING: Due to the graphic nature of the story line premise, there may be some triggers for more sensitive readers. As the author says in her opening address to the readers: “ This is a bully romance and the hero will act accordingly.”
Told from dual first person perspectives (Cadee and Cooper) BULLY KING focuses on the summer ‘rush’ of new pledges to High Court College, a rush wherein our heroine, Cadee Hunter becomes the target of every bully and power hungry, spoiled trust fund kid that the school has to offer. Following a night of ‘debauchery’ on behalf of Cooper and his friends, Cooper Valcourt’s father Winston Valcourt, Chairman of High Court College sentences Cooper, and his friends Ax and Lars to ‘work’ at the summer rush camp knowing said sentence would filter out the powerful from the weak but Cooper struggles in the face of his father’s intended victim, a young woman who has suffered enough at the hands of Cooper and his friends.
Three years earlier Cadee’s life imploded, then her father died, leaving her mother struggling to make ends meet working in the campus kitchens. Fast forward to present day wherein, with Cadee’s mother’s death three weeks earlier, Cadee finds herself alone, facing expulsion or accepting a ‘job’ working in the kitchen for the College’s rush camp, work that disguises weeks of bullying at the hands of the wanna-be young and powerful rich and famous but all is not well behind the scenes, when the dirty truth and secrets reveal a hideous history of death, rape, power and control.
BULLY KING is a gritty, haunting, heart breaking and emotional story line of predator and prey; of the powerful versus the weak; of money and control. Cadee Hunter is a strong willed young woman, clearly not innocent or pure, who refuses to be a victim, and in this, places herself in the direct line of fire in an effort to secure one of the coveted scholarships to High Court College. As a target of some of the most horrific acts of bullying, Cadee consents to various forms of assault, both emotional and physical, claiming by acceptance she is no longer the victim, regardless of the outcome.
Cooper Valcourt is the ultimate spoiled, trust fund baby, who along with his best friends Ax and Lars, wreak havoc amongst those they consider beneath their status yet it is the havoc that now places Cooper in a precarious position, as he must prove he is worthy of wearing the Crown, a crown that comes with years of power, control, secrets and lies.
There is a large ensemble cast of destructive and ill-fated secondary and supporting characters: Ax Olson, Lars, Isabella, Sophie Bettington, Mona Monroe, Elexa Simpson, Dante Legosi, Michael Gottsworth, Roland Blanchard, Jamie Cruz, Ivan Turgenev, lead server Victor English, as well as Cooper’s brother Dane, and their father Chairman Winston Valcourt.
BULLY KING is not a story for the weak. There are questionable acts of consent, emotional, sexual and physical abuse, suicide attempts, domination and submission, all in the name of power, money and status. The trust-fund children are puppets, vying for a position of control but in the end, who will be pulling the strings when the truth is finally revealed?
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Reviewed by Sandy
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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.
After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.
So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.
She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.
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