Bentley

Love Your Enemy Duet, Book 1

De: Hattie Jude

Narrado por: Neill Thorne, Angela Goethals

Every girl wants to bang me, and every guy wants to be me.

But I have my sights set on one person—Quinn Livingston. My perfect little neighbor, living in her perfect little world…

I am out to get payback for what her family took from me. What I want from her is something she can only give away once. For the rest of her life, when she thinks about losing her virginity, she will think of me.

Hey, Quinn Livingston, I never said I played fair.

Bentley is the first book in the Love Your Enemy duet.

©2021 Hattie Jude (P)2022 Podium Audio

what a good book

doesn't waste time and captivating until the end. I can't wait to read the next book. this is a must read.

Bentley & Quinn

Story: 4.5 ⭐️
Steam: 3.5 🔥 light/med smut
Audio: 5 🎧

I was nervous about diving into a bully romance since it’s been a while since I went through my bully romance phase 😂 but I was pleasantly surprised by this! I really liked the characters and found the story fun and it kept my attention throughout.

This is a duet and all though it ends on a cliffhanger, it’s not something that will wreck you lol it’s emotional but I didn’t find myself out of my mind. I did grab book two right away though!

Intriguing

I wasn’t sure how I would like this book. Especially with the amount of parental violence it had in the beginning. But it was a really interesting read. I’m actually looking forward to a time when I can buy book 2 on here.

Good book

Good story, love the twist at the end. Was not expecting the ending and can’t wait to read the next one

Dark romance

Bentley is a high school bully romance, or rather it's a bully romance between neighbors who are in high school. That said, this didn't really feel like a bully romance to me. Bentley is more like the high school jock who's used to getting what he wants from his fellow students. We find out pretty quickly that Bentley wants to make Quinn pay for something her family did, and it doesn't take long to figure out what that is. The problem with that is Bentley seems to have a hard time being mean to Quinn without back-pedaling or at least feeling guilty. Of course, we are dealing with teenagers here, even if they are heading into adulthood, so some waffling about feelings and not knowing what they want is pretty much a given. Honestly, if Bentley and Quinn were a little more mature in their thinking and actions, I'd say this story feels more like an enemies to lovers romance.
This one is definitely not without some angst - okay, maybe more than some - but most of that is surrounding Bentley's circumstances. I won't go into details to avoid spoilers, but I will say that even as I wanted Bentley to act better than he was, I understood where a lot of his attitude and actions were coming from. So much of it is absolutely heart-wrenching, and more often than not, I wanted someone to just hug him.
Bully or enemies to lovers romance, I was invested in the outcome, and even though I knew going in that it was the first in a duet, I didn't expect it to end when it did. In the latter part of the book, I kept thinking, 'okay, here's where it stops, here's the cliffy.' But nooooo, that wasn't to be. Hattie Jude went for the big cliffy, the one that makes you want to tear out the earbuds and throw the device while cursing a blue streak. Yep, it's that kind of cliffhanger, so now, here I am, waiting for book 2 to release.
I had the pleasure of listening to this book, and in addition to being my first experience with Hattie Jude, this was my first time listening to either Neill Thorne or Angela Goethals. As it turns out, I'm impressed with all three. Hattie Jude brought the story, and Neill Thorne and Angela Goethals pulled out all the feels, and there were plenty of those. From Bentley's anger to Quinn's indignation to the mutual attraction and the confusion over that attraction, these narrators capture it all. I look forward to more from all three in the second part of the duet.

fans of bully Romance will enjoy this book!

Narration of this audio by Neill Thorne and Angela Goethals was fantastic!

Bully Romance isn't usually my thing and the author is new to me, but Iove both narrators so I gave it a go.

While it wasn't my favorite in this sub genre it was a good book.

If bully Romance is your jam you will enjoy this audio, especially since both narrators voiced their parts so perfectly!

Very good.

It is a cliff hanger, so be prepared to invest in book two as well.

The narrators were both excellent. The story was very interesting, I wasn’t expecting to like it so much because the main characters were high school students but really this book is good enough for any age. This story is so good that it could easily be turned into a Netflix series.

Child Abuse

Don’t be fooled by the cover! The kids are 17 and the father should be in jail.

No Understanding About the Fathers Mean Attitude towards Son

I must have missed something in this story. Why was the father so hateful towards his son? Story makes no sense to me. Happy that I didn’t pay anything for it. Not listening to the next story, “Quinn”. It might be as ridiculous as “Brantley”.

3.8/5

The ending was a cliffhanger and I can guess the way everything else works out so I won’t be rewarding Quinn.

I ultimately liked this book. There should’ve been a prologue to catch us up to the ins and outs of the family dynamics. I kind of just went with the flow as it was written and truthfully I enjoyed the book. Idk if this is a debut book but the father gives off a narcissist that love bombed the mother and she realized way too late but that isn’t explained.

Quinn was a simpleton I swear. If the boys moods change depending on two specific people why wouldn’t you dig into that? Or even ask questions? Then you say his dad makes you uncomfortable, he asks you to stay away from the man but every chapter it feels like she was somehow trapped by the man. Her mother and father were a whole other case and it didn’t help that they were only given small bits and pieces when it felt like we should’ve received more?

With that said the book kind of drew me in from the start, I didn’t like that they were high school kids but the author was a really good story teller.

I swear all I wanted to do was hold Bentley but even then it was so confusing did the hatred for Quinn stem from what he knew about the parents? Was it because he always knew he liked her? I have no idea. For possibly the first time ever I listened to a book at 2.5x because I needed to know how it ended opposed to being uninterested but a finisher lol (surprise and unfortunately for me, it’s a cliffhanger)