Freestyle: 1 (Academy of Stardom)

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I don’t even know where to begin with the guys. The chapters written in the past are my favorite. I loved getting to read about each one of them. I would’ve fallen in love too if I was her. They all cared so much and were always willing to protect Pen. Now that they’re grown up, I just want them to love again. I know every author has the right to write her RH the way she wants. In some books the men are just okay with sharing a girl with their best friends or brothers because they "feel" is right, because they've done everything together their whole lives, so it just makes sense. And in others books, the men, or at least one of them, has trouble with that.And i get it, i really do, but here i just thought Xeno was an asshole.I mean force the girl to choose one of them and then run off with that guy and never they would be friends again with the rest, it just sounds ridiculous to me.I kept thinking "why are they all just accepting this????" Pen on the other hand is sort of done with them. She wants to tell them the truth but the danger of it forces her to keep her mouth shut. So she stays quite. She lets them think that she betrayed them , all the while being broken by their hate. Heroine : Penelope. She is the perfect Sassy Heroine who had enough patience and want to handle the Breakers and she was perfect for them!

This book has to be different than all the reverse harem books I have ever read. It was perfect in its own way , making me feel so many emotions!! A definite top read of mine! I stumbled upon Freestyle by accident but as soon as I read the blurb, I knew I had to read it. I love RH books, I love gang books and I love reading about dancing. If you love RH books, where all of the guys have completely different personalities but compliment one another then you will love this book.

Brothers Freed Trilogy

This is a Bully Romance at its finest, in a way that I haven’t read before. The difference with this book is that all these characters have a HISTORY. There history was that all characters fell in love and something big made them fall apart. Like the namesake, Lyrical is an emotional purging- about the catalytic expression that will make or break the Breakers. And Bea is somehow able to capture these key emotive moments with words. This story does NOT work if we do not connect to the dance- Lyrical is told almost entirely through it. But damn, it works- somehow I can see it as if I were watching it live. But more importantly, I FEEL it. It is riveting, captivating and the mark of a truly gifted storyteller. And we aren’t the only ones who “get it”- every character has at least one key dance moment, a moment of raw and unabashed expression. And that is how they are able to reconnect and heal- dance allows them to SEE each other.

Well it was ok, very meh to me. The beginning of the book I was very hard for me to get into and I got really bored. Most of the book was really cringe and I just couldn’t deal. This book was just as great as the last, yet somehow so different and I enjoyed it despite the few problems I found this time. This book was definitely going for a dark tone and I just couldn't believe it. I just never managed to buy in to the danger of the situation. I don't think the author ever managed to pull of the dark tone. This could definitely be a me thing; maybe I've just been exposed to too many dark romances, but this just felt more childish at times, with all the swearing and over-the-top reactions, rather than dark.Our story centers on a RH friends-to-enemies (and hopefully to lovers) story. Our heroine Pen is fantastic. She’s a warrior- a survivor of multiple challenging circumstances, but she won’t give up. She’s also incredibly passionate, focused, and hard working. She lives with integrity even though she’s surrounded by greed and corruption. She takes nothing for granted, and selflessly sacrifices for the happiness and well being of others. She’s tough, but at her core she just wants to be loved, to matter to someone, to be FREE. She’s the kind of heroine you can admire and root for, the kind of heroine who you empathize with and hurt for. I love Pen so much. I wanted to just wrap her in my arms and comfort her. She is truly going through it. She is fighting so hard to stay strong and I really just want to come through the book and fight her battles for her. She is so beautiful and so talented. Every time her dancing scenes would come up, I imagined the Step Up movies and knew she was killing it.

This book continues off right where the first one ended and It was much more angsty than the first book too. The breakers have now realised that things are not as simple as they seem. That their Pen might have betrayed them , but she broke herself in doing that. We were 17 when they left me. You see, for kids like us, dance was all we had. Growing up in a rundown housing estate in London with no prospects can make you view the world differently. It can make you choose the wrong path. I chose dance, and they chose crime.I'm also not complaining about the limited sexual scenes..it was just enough..and at the right places.. especially the scenes with York and Dax! When they came together through their only medium of communication.. dancing..damn it felt like mini fireworks bursting everywhere! I'm glad Dax was her first..it seemed well thought of! Just right. My problem with Dax - I love Dax, he's one of my favorites - next to the other 3 breakers. haha Yes, I love them all, they're very well built. BUT every time Dax calls Pen "Kid" he makes me uncomfortable. First, because he's only 1 year older than her. And second, because when it's his POV and he's narrating a sex scene, it gets weird to hell!!!