DNF @ 50%. 
 I'm surprised at the 5 star ratings. Since I'm a major Elle Kennedy fan, this book should totally be up my street. In fact it kinda was, because it reminded me of a mash up of 
 Hana Dori Yango 
 and 
 Atashinchi no Danshi 
 . The former because there are four (beautiful) boys ruling an entire school with their iron fist, and anyone that falls out of favour, gets run out. The latter, because the girl is taken to be the "mother" of seven sons, and because the boys in Paper Princess kept speculating whether their new "sister" was banging their father, I just got that vibe. 
 Tbh - this book is hugely surreal from the off, and dare I say it - the lead female is a Mary Sue. 
 She is wish fulfilment on part of the authors. 
 You know those characters that always have the right lines at the right times, and if some bitch gives her a pair of undies as an insult, then she's not afraid to strip off, put them on, and parade around in said undies as a big F-U? 
 Yeah, wish fulfilment all over and hugely unrealistic. I think a lot of people were entertained, like they were watching a crazy soap opera, but for me, I felt like I was watching Mary Sue, with her obligatory sad start to life, always having the best lines, always trumping over the biggest bitch. Also can I say? The entire cast are a list of bad tropes. The only good thing it had going for it, was that the characters weren't all male. There were some females too. 
 I stopped reading the book at 20% (because it lost my attention), and I skimmed through to 50%, occasionally stopping here and there. I think Ella got a job at a bakery. Brooke blabbed to everyone that Ella was a stripper. She makes out with Easton, but it's really Reed she's after. 
 In fact the entire thing made me feel like rewriting the entire book, because I genuinely, really really do like the idea behind it, because I'm big on my HYD fix. You just lost me with how absurd it all seemed. Which is a pity, because I've read books with underage strippers before, and I don't think it was absurd. I thought it was realistically portrayed. 
 Ah. 
 Wish fulfilment is the bane of my life. 
 PS: Another thing that screamed wish fulfilment was to have Ella a "virgin" - but yet she knows all the tricks from the prostitute's handbook. This would make her extra appealing, because she's not really a "whore" and she's actually quite innocent, and y'know, so that makes her more relatable and we can all like her.....yaaaay. I find the fact the authors made her a virgin psychologically very interesting. They are subliminally saying, it's okay to "dress and act slutty" if she really, actually isn't. I don't know. I just find that very interesting. Why couldn't she have had a list of sexual partners? I openly encourage that trope. In fact, Ella hasn't even ever given a "bj" that's how innocent she is. It all taps into most people's basest desires. To have a female "who's absolutely amazing in bed" but "not to actually have gained it in there." *snorts*