Kings of Miskatonic Prep

The Complete Dark Paranormal Bully Romance Collection

By: Steffanie Holmes

Narrated by: Lee Duncan

Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Complete series with bonus alternate POV scenes.

Secrets. Lies. Sacrifice. Welcome to my nightmare. Welcome to Miskatonic Prep.

The fire took everything. My parents. My best friend. My life.

Now I have a second chance.

I only have to endure one year at this prestigious academy for rich snobs. One year of being the charity case no one wanted. One year of taunts and insults and bullying. Then, I’m free. 

But I didn’t count on Trey, Ayaz, and Quinn. Arrogant, privileged, dangerous. Drop-dead gorgeous. They want me gone. They want me to suffer. They’re determined to make my nightmares real.Tough luck, bully boys - I won’t hide away.

I’m not afraid. But maybe...I should be.

HP Lovecraft meets Cruel Intentions in this complete dark paranormal reverse harem bully romance with bonus POV scenes. Warning: Not for the faint of heart - this story of three broken bad boys and the girl who stood her ground contains dark themes, crazed cultists, books bound in human skin, high-school drama, swoon-worthy sex, and potential triggers.

©2019 Auckland (P)2020 Steffanie Holmes

Decent story

This is a pretty good story. The author definitely has a vivid imagination. You also get a lot of bang for your buck with 4 stories/over 36 hours of audio in one purchase. The RH element started out strong for me as we were introduced to these characters and got peeks into their lives and personalities. At some point the relationships fell flat. Hazel spent so much time pushing them away and there were other road blocks to their love story/romantic development. It got better toward the end. But the story also got weirder. The bonus scenes were really good and I feel like if those scenes and a few others from the guys’ POV had been thrown in, it would have enhanced the story and charged up the sexual energy/believability of the love story. Narration was just ok. The narrator has a nice voice and she was a good fit for the main character. However, she had a lot of voices to act out and that’s incredibly tough. Her Turkish accent and her voice for the God were particularly lackluster. She also mispronounced quite a few words along the way. Would I recommend? This many hours of listening for the price of one credit? Yes.

good story... barely any sex though

there are so so few sex scenes! it's still good but left me hanging a bit haha.

Quite a different take on the bully romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Narration: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Romance: 💋💋💋💋
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📙📕📗📘
World building: 🌎🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 👨🏻👱🏻‍♀️🧔🏻👱🏼‍♂️

The heroine: Hazel (a.k.a. Hazy) - she lost her mother and best friend in a fire. She grew up on the mean streets of Philly and gets a scholarship to this exclusive school. She can’t turn it down since she had been living on her own while underage.

The Hero(es): Trey - The head of the Kings. He is dating a girl named Tilly, one of the queens of the school. He sets the stage on the first day Hazel arrives for everyone to bully her like they bully all scholarship students.
Ayaz - He seems to have a hatred for Hazel but after he does something particularly cruel to her, he doesn’t look satisfied, just sad.
Quinn (a.k.a. Quinnanigans) - He is a irredeemable flirt though he has a girlfriend, Courtney who is the Queen B of the school and a big bully herself.

The Story: The kings and queens of the school traditionally bully and belittle all of the scholarship students (there are 4). However, they are unprepared for someone like Hazel, who grew up with a mom who worked as a stripper, went to school with gang members and despite having terrible things done to her, is always willing to fight back.

On top of all that, there are strange things happening at the school. Teachers in long robes going into the basement, the parents of the Kings treating them like crap, sounds like rats in the walls, the kings acting strange and more.

I don’t want to give away what is going on at the school, but it is complex, evil and paranormal. I did really like the story. I especially liked the fact that there was some diversity included. One of the Kings and his sister were Turkish.

I really liked the narrator, Lee Duncan. She has the voice of a teenager, and had the perfect attitude for Hazel. The entire book is told in Hazel’s POV so of course the boys voices are done by the narrator, so I didn’t have a problem with the Turkish accent not being very authentic.

I ended up really liking the story but I have to admit there were some inconsistencies and quite a few things that didn’t make sense. However, overall I liked the way things went. This was a reverse harem and I liked how the romance between Hazel and each of the kings was sometimes sweet and sometimes hot. There was also an intimate scene with all of them that was scorching.

I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.

Wow!!

I couldn't get enough of The kings of Miskatonic Prep. Lee did a fantastic job of bringing this book to life!

Twist I wasn’t expecting and never wanted

I was enjoying this for the first 3 books but book 4 took a left turn that I did not like. Another huge issue I had with the book 4 audio was the multiple horrible mispronunciations. I had noticed maybe 2-3 in the first 3 books but the last book had more and were really grating. Sadly, I will not be revisiting this audiobook in the future.

Such an immersive story

I loved everything about this book. I wish I could find others like it.

audio quality

audio quality wasn't good at all but the overall story was great and the price is pretty good for a box set if you can get past the speakers weird sounds and audio changing volume randomly

Good Book(s)

I like this book. I liked the plot. I was not a fan of the narrator.

Awesome series!

This continued to have me wondering what was going to happen next. I love all the little plot twists that you never see coming! My favorite plot twist is what's really up with the rats. I love the author's style and the narrator did a really good job too. I definitely recommend this series to anyone who likes reverse harem and paranormal romances!

Wow

New author and narrator for me. Loved this!! ❤ The romance is a bit slow but when it's there it's hot and strong. Loved the story! Keeps you interested from start to end with the harsh bullying, the mystery, odd occurrences, relationships and hierarchy bs.
Warning for abuse, attempted rape, bigotry and classism.