Fallen Crest Public by Tijan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Sam’s first day at Fallen Crest Public doesn’t go well. Some girls want to be her. Some girls want to destroy her. And some just don’t like her. All in all, despite being protected by Mason and Logan, it’s still only the strong survive. Sam will not only have to survive, she needs to learn how to conquer too, but there’s another battle growing. Things are about to come to a disastrous end between the towns, Roussou and Fallen Crest. Sam’s other main dilemma? Keeping Mason and Logan from getting arrested or hospitalized.
Fallen Crest Public
Girl bullies!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: ☹️😮😋😄
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Samantha – her relationship with Mason is now out in the open and everyone in town knows that they are together. She has turned eighteen so her mother can no longer interfere in her life or her relationship. She has quit Fallen Crest Academy and will now be attending Fallen Crest Public school for the rest of her junior year and all of her senior year. Though she doesn’t have many friends at the school aside from Mason, Logan and Nate.
The Hero: Mason – he is the guy that all the other guys want to be, and all the girls want. He is the star football player for Fallen Crest Public, he has a full-ride scholarship to play football in college next year and there is already talk of him going pro after college. He is from a wealthy family, and he and his brother Logan and best friend Nate are the kings of the school and the town.
The Story: Mason and Logan protected Sam as much as they could, but in this book, she faced bigger enemies than in the previous two books. Sam’s vulnerabilities and past trauma were brought to the surface in the last book, though in this one she really has to find her strength. Sam doesn’t have it easy at Fallen Crest Public. She has her friend Heather Jax that she met in the last book, but many of the girls at the public school are against her. They all had dreamed of being the one to get the love of Mason and didn’t like the fact that it was Sam who got what they all wanted.
Logan’s ex girlfriend Tate is back as well. She was the girl Logan was in love with and had dated for two years before finding out she was just using him the whole time to get closer to Mason, who she really wanted. It was obvious that Logan still had feelings for Tate despite how she betrayed him. I love that Sam has to deal with some terrible bullying in this book. The bullies were the four queen B’s of the school and were called the Tommy P’s (for Princesses), led by Kate who used to hook up with Mason on and off, before he shunned them and banned them from all their parties. Kate and her girls get really down and dirty with their bullying.
“No sound, no tears, no cries. They wouldn’t hear anything from me.”
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Saskia Maarleveld and Graham Halstead. Saskia has a terrific voice and sounds very natural. She is great at doing different voices for different characters. I am not fond of Graham Halstead’s voice. I think Mason would have a much deeper voice; his voice sounds a bit nerdy, which is not at all like Mason. Though Graham does sound natural and is a good narrator. I like that this book was told in both Sam and Mason’s point of view, though I just wish it had been a different male narrator.
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