Rebel at Spruce High
A Spruce Texas Romance, Book 5
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Rebel at Spruce High
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Narrated by:
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Chris Chambers
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Cooper North
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By:
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Daryl Banner
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Vann, the gorgeous, leather-jacket-clad new bad boy in school, just set his eyes on me.
I'm not really good at making friends. That's simply a fact. I'm happy enough if I can just get through the school day, avoid eye contact with anything that breathes, and make it home where my family can continue ignoring my existence and I can play video games in peace.
But then he crashes into my life like a tidal wave. The hot new senior at Spruce High. The bad boy everyone can't stop talking about. The one with the leather jacket, smoldering eyes, and cloud of danger following him. The one called Vann.
My whole life changes overnight. Now, I want different things. I want an end to my lonesomeness. I want to stand up to the jocks who keep pushing me around.
But most importantly, I want to know what Vann's lips taste like. And why he looks pained every time his dark eyes catch mine in class. And why he keeps paying attention to me when the rest of the town doesn't. And why every time I open my mouth to speak, my racing heart chokes me.
I don't know what's coming for me in my last year at Spruce High, but I sure hope I'm ready for it.
Contains mature themes.
©2020 Daryl Banner (P)2021 TantorWhat listeners say about Rebel at Spruce High
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- Anonymous User
- 13-08-2023
Loved this book
Absolutely loved this book so many twists and turns kept me involved the whole time
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Wide Eyes, Big Ears!
- 04-10-2021
Rebel without a cause fights for love
Grrr. Like the Star Wars movies, the first three books in this series are my favourites and we shall never speak of this book or the last one again. Openly gay, Toby has been systematically bullied by Hoyt and his cronies forever until rebellious bad boy and new student, Vann, befriends him. Quick to anger, Vann scares students and teachers alike and even Toby has his doubts. This started promisingly but the constant teen drama and Toby’s dumb decisions slowly eroded my good will. Bullying in high school was the last book’s theme, so I felt like we’d more than covered this ground, especially the “I only bully you because I love you” excuse. Yes, Freud theorised that homophobia was caused by latent same-sex feelings, but some people are just nasty bullies. I found the bullying scenes hard to take, I don’t think the trigger warnings were adequate. The dialogue sounded way too erudite for high school students, constantly describing Toby’s brother as a ‘mouth-breather’ was pretty mean, it got way too schmaltzy by the end, and why was the sex off-page? Audio narrators Chris Chambers and Cooper North were great but their voices were a little hard to tell apart - pairings in the first three books were better.
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