Rowan's Reviews > Losers: Part I

3.75! (I think if I reread this I might round it up to 4)

❝but love is a little different with every person you share it with. Sometimes it's passionate and romantic, or deep and platonic, or any combination in between. A lot of people don't understand it, but I don't need anyone's understanding. I accepted that a long time ago❞

Oh My god Harley LaRoux what have you done to me!
I’m not gonna lie I was getting into this duet thinking I’ll hate it. Why? I don’t know. Really But don’t worry I ate my own words after that.


I want what they have 😭



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❥ MMFMM
❥ polyamorous
❥ bully Romance (girl bully)
❥ found family
❥ Kinky AFFFFF (heavy bdsm)



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Losers: part 1. Is about Jess. Blonde, popular, prom queen, cheerleader captain, the mean girl at high school And the four boys she used to bully. But how come that deep down when she bullied them she used it as an excuse to be close to them. She bullied them but the four of them are obsessed with her.



make up by Ariana Grande
Positions by Ariana Grande
Dangerous woman by Ariana Grande
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Y’all This author changed my view on so many things in books:


➸ This is the first time I read bully Romance but it’s the girl who’s the bully. And I liked it so damn much.

➸ This is my second why choose Romance after the failure of a book heartless heathens . Santana Knox why won’t you learn a thing or two from this queen?. Starting with that both books are why choose, dark Romance that include BDSM. Although I have to admit. It’s heavier in here. But if you add it to your books you have to write it good or just fucking don’t. Even if it’s not heavy.


➸ In heartless heathens the FMC was 18. Fresh out of adolescent. They used her in every way possible. The ppl who were my friends from last year may remember my review and what happened at the book.
But since I deleted my review. This amazing person had a review that was the closest to my opinion In here. So yeah that book was ridiculous with a very young girl who was incredibly unexperienced. And that was a NOOOO from me.
But in here Jess was very experienced. She knew what she liked, she liked it when they pushed her limit and that was a fresh air.

➸ Continuing with what I meant. Is that nowadays authors loveeee to put the word (CNC) in their list of warning at the start without knowing what the fuck it means 💀. Not Just in heartless heathens but many other dark romance books I’ve read. Authors use (CNC) to write a complete non-consensual scene.
Like are you fr right now? You are a writer of this stuff but you don’t know that CNC is actually a role-play!! so yeah I’m happy that Harley knows exactly what she writes. She explored CNC in the best way I’ve ever read.

➸ I have read a lot of books with kinky stuff. But never a book that fully shows BDSM. Harley I love you so much I want to kiss you right now. it’s just frustrating that a lot of authors don’t know the meaning behind it or how to write it from the first place Again just like heartless heathens, or for another example, in Fifty Shades of Grey where the MMC literally manipulated the FMC to like this stuff.

Harley laroux wrote it perfectly. All the characters were experienced. They know what they like. They give in to what the others like. They prioritize communication very damn much I love it.


I also love how the characters don’t just use BDSM to sound hot and cool. They have reasons to use it. they heal their trauma by it. And that’s how it should be done. I always talk to my friends about this. that BDSM is a big deal. You can’t just do these things on passing by ways. recklessly that you might hurt yourself or your partner. So that is one of the many things that made me love this book.
(Please don’t come harassing me. You can do whatever you please with your life. I never judge people. This is just my opinion)

➸ I read a lot of books with gay/ bi. Side characters. But never a book with the main couple.
And let’s just say that my first time was a winner.
So the four guys are into her. But guess what?
They are also into each other 🫦
So yeah I’m not ventured into the genre so maybe I’m not right. But I loved what I read. I saw a well written rep. characters who support each other no matter what. Who’ve been with each other through dark and light. up and down. Them against the world.

My first gay Romance book was supposed to be (GOD OF FURY.) But I let my bestie siffie read it without me when we were supposed to read it together (sorry my love) but I’ve read a lot of reviews about god of fury and a lot of ppl thought that it was bad. A lot of people thought that Rina Kent did a very poor job with it since all of her books were straight couples. But I can guarantee you that you’ll love this one bc This author knows her shit.


Now that I said the important things first Let’s talk about the characters (they all have daddy issues). with fan art 🤭


【 Jessica Martin 】
Did I enjoy her? Yes I had fun But when it comes to loving her or no. I’ll say I’ll get my answer in the next book. I really wished that I’ve loved her like the guys.
I don’t care about what she did to ppl And I don’t care that she don’t feel an ounce of remorse. Bc number one: it’s fiction. Number two: she’s badass. So yeah Jess go off. Get dicked down by four guys who you used to bully and I love that move when you crashed the party with them to say to ppl ✨FUCK OFF✨

❝staring at the woman I couldn't have. She was so fucking beautiful. Heartlessly perfect. The cruelest joke life had ever played on me.❞

She also suffered by her mom who LITERALLY body shamed her own daughter!! So I don’t want to overlook her trauma. She’s fun And I hope I love her more in the next book.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Qa9Fxs7...

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【 Manson Reed 】
I’m under the impression that he’s Harley’s favorite.
That’s it 😭 he’s amazing. I lowkey dragged him in my review for the dare but I take it back, I think between the four of them he’s the most explored. His past. His trauma. his character complexes. It was all greatly done.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3S_zC0BT...

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【 Lucas bent 】
Agh Lucas!!! yk when you read a why choose and finally the cold hearted one falls for her? That feeling is so great like I’m just giggling in my bed, I LOVED him Omg again just like Manson I’m so sad to hear his story. Fuck all of their families.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3VklCxrv...

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【 Vincent Volkov 】
If I open my damn mouth to talk about how much I love this man I’ll never shut up. He’s literally the funniest in the group. He takes all the heavy haze off a heated scene, he’s such a ray of sunshine.

❝I was just a skinny stoner with a fried egg for a brain❞

❝Paranoid? What do you have to be paranoid about? I'm with you. I'll make sure you don't go running off naked into the woods. At least not without me❞

Yeah now you get why he’s funny 😭

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3YJTjPr3...

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【 Jason Roth 】
My baby I hate his family for rejecting him, He’s such a cutie. Now listen I really try to forget that he’s 5’7 but I failed 😩

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3auKoav0...


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❝I wanted to ride this man like a goddamn rollercoaster and then take his friends for a spin too❞

The characters dynamic y’all! it’s perfect

We have Manson: the voyeur who never bottoms.
Lucas: the stalker who loves to chase.
Vincent: the bondage specialist.
Jason: the one with the wildest kinks. (I’m so scared of that one kink that he mentioned because I know I won’t like it)

❝Is it really that hard to give an inch, Jess?"
"Yeah, Jess. Can't even give an inch when Manson gave you eight?❞

The communication. The swoon worthy moments 🥹 they were a million times better than the spice, Vincent’s parents and how he talks about his sisters, i absolutely loved how the author focused so much on exploring the characters. A lot of authors now be just focusing on the romance and the spice forgetting the most important part. She delved and gave each one of them great story. I also love how each on of them have a passion. And then author kept showing them talking about it. Working on it. It’s so good.
Manson and Lucas: fix cars. And do cool’s stuff to them.
Vincent: the multi hobby king, he love to play music instruments and He love to draw.
Jason: is this cool hacker who can blackmail anybody he wants. And he’s a drifter as well.
Jess: is an architectural designer.
They were so refreshing and interesting.


I just don’t know what to write they were out of the world. The longing. The doubt. The fear. That they can’t have her 😫 I want them out of that shitty town together nowww.

❥ Jason and Vincent: their relationship is amazing.
How he taught him and let him speak his mind.

❥ Lucas and Manson: my heart. That last “I love you”? Lemme go cry.

❝Because I can't stand to see you so fucking torn up over it, You can't let it go. It's been years of this shit, and you still can't stop❞

My babies they understand each other without even have to say it.

❥ Lucan & Manson & Vincent & Jason & Jess = absolute damn perfection.

❝I'm not some delicate little flower, okay? We made a deal. I'm yours until my debt is paid and I meant that. Yours. But if I'm yours, then you're all mine too. I'm not on the outside anymore. I'm part of this, all of it - even the scary fucked-up parts. I need to talk to him. Please❞

Can we talk about chapter 29? That scene between Vincent and Jess, I’m really heartbroken now.


And the spice? Out of the world and As much as it was very hot in here I know that the second book will contain heavier context it’s about to get wilder.

❝I'm joking. Come on, Jess. Do I really look like I'd murder someone?"
"Well.. You look like you could murder this pussy, so yeah, you do look like a killer❞

I love her for that 😭

Moral of the story the characters relationship with each other is 100% worth reading. But please check all trigger warnings. I swear with everything I wrote I feel like I didn’t give them justice 🥲 I really really really tried to choose a favorite but I couldn’t.


things I didn’t like:

1) umm.. is it really necessary to put blow jobs in every sex scene? I don’t think it is. I feel bad for her throat.

2) the “psycho dad” plot. It’s sounds stupid Please just let the books be character driven without plots bc not every book needs a plot.

3) I said I had fun with Jess. She was alright but why did she lowkey started victimizing herself? You’re no innocent.

4) Jason being 5’7.


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• The Dare ➸ 2 ✰
• Losers: Part I ➸ 3.75 ✰
• Losers: Part II ➸ 1 ✰