Play the Game: Hannaford Prep Year Three – J Bree

This book picks up from the cliffhanger in book two. Lips is escorted back to Mounts Bay with Harley by the Jackal, Luca, and Harley’s uncle. We are also introduced to the Butcher of the Bay, Illi, who is close with Lips.

After the Vulture is killed, Lips inducts Illi into her “gang” to protect him and his wife Odie. With the Butcher of the Bay only answering to Lips, other members of the Twelve are more cautious.

Illi arrives at Hannaford Prep to inform Lips that both the Jackal and Joseph Senior have been in discussions with Morningstar to have Harley and the twins killed. This leads Lips to asking the twins about their father and just how much of a sociopath he is and finds out that their father and Joey killed their mother when she tried to take the twins and leave.

While trying to deal with the outside threats, Lips must also deal with the internal ones in the form of their new history teacher, Ms. Viviene, who tries to seduce her male students, including Harley, and gives Lips lower grades in retaliation against Harley’s dismissal of her.

When the group is back in Mounts Bay for a meeting of the Twelve, Lips calls in favors to buy Harley’s freedom from his grandfather. She later receives a package at the hotel she is at, it is the head of Lance, the boy who stalked her in the previous book. This isn’t the only head in a box she’ll receive.

The Jackal makes his move on Harley by suppling Annabelle with dirty drugs that lands him in the hospital and unconscious for days. It’s then the group decides that they are no longer playing it safely and will go after everyone who is a threat to their family.

The cliffhanger at the end of this book is absolutely amazing, so make sure you have the next book at the ready.

This book is a little more intense than the previous two, with graphic descriptions of sex and mutilation, so if you’re sensitive to these imageries, please take note, parts of this book left me with the chills, and it genuinely makes you concerned for all their safety. The way the author can invoke such emotions through words is absolutely astounding. It’s also heartening as to how far the five main characters will go to protect one another.

Be sure to grab To the End: Hannaford Prep Year Four to conclude Lips’ story.

PAGE COUNT: 408 Pages

TROPE: High School Romance – Academy Romance – Mob – Gangs – Reverse Harem.

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