3.5 stars. This book isn't what I expected. "Bully" is such an iconic title, that it commands a presence by it's title alone. Bully. Bully. That should mean we have a bully, the likes we've never seen before, no? By his sheer cruelty alone? Instead what I got was a weird mash-up of the Fast & Furious films/high school ostracizing/and a second half that's in odds with the first. K.C was the ultimate betrayer in the first half - but suddenly she's not? Liam is who she wants all along? Jared is a bully - but suddenly he's not? He did it, just because he saw her once playing happy families? Wishy-washy at best. If this story had another title, and Jared had seen the happy family scenario umpteen times for the resentment to sink in, making his reasoning more deep-rooted and sound - this story would be a 4 or 4.5. But I do love stories with a boy that "torments" his love interest. I grew up on a diet of them. 
 PS: Tate was quite a good heroine. Except she did love pointing out her sluts. 
 PPS: In defense of this book - I don't believe it romanticizes bullying. 
 Okay. 
 Let me explain: 
 Romanticizing bullying: The heroine approves or condones the hero abusing others or herself. She views it as sexy. There is no negative emotion. If the heroine views it as sexy, I see her a victim of stockholm syndrome or mentally deficient. 
 This book: Tate finds Jared sexy. Numerous times. However, when he's bullying her, she feels negative emotion and does not approve of the way he treats her. She might even find him sexy whilst he's bullying her - but at no point, does she find the bullying itself sexy. Key difference. 
 It romanticizes a bully, but doesn't romanticize bullying.