My ARC Review of ARROGANT BASTARD by Winter Renshaw

This isn’t your normal step brother romance. It is such a yummy turn on your nose step brother romance that was really an emotional story to read and I found myself rooting for the MC- Jensen and Waverly in this story. In fact, Jensen and Waverly are not even related in any way- his mother married her father so they are only related by marriage. 

The book begins with Jensen suffering a horrible beating by his abusive preacher father. CPS took him away to live with his mother until he can finish out his senior year of high school and then he plans to move to LA to study tattooing but his plans change when he sees his step-sister by marriage, Waverly. His mother is in a polygamous relationship and is the 3rd wife. He goes from one twisted household to another where the step father is waited on hand and foot and he has a strict set of rules. Jensen doesn’t like how the females are treated and he tries to change things and he is opposed by his step- father. Jensen realizes he just needs to keep on everyone’s good side until he can graduate High School and move to L.A. in August where his tattoo dreams can come true because he has an apprenticeship job open. Which is slowly not happening because of the chemistry between him and Waverly. 

Waverly is the one who doesn’t like how her father treats her daughters. She tries to talk to her sister Bellamy about how she feels but Bellamy acts like her father is God and correct in all things. Then her father’s 3rd wife’s son arrives and he just uses her as his target for some reason. She can’t figure it out when she tries to be his friend. But suddenly they connect and the chemistry is there and before long the Jensen is teaching Waverly it’s better to rebel than to be good all the time. Waverly realizes nothing she does it ever going to be good enough for her father and she sees her father doesn’t value her nor his wives or the females. Jensen and Waverly go about doing for themselves all the things kids their age should be doing-instead of letting worry get to them, they do for themselves and woe be to others. Only concern they do have is if Bellamy will out them to her father because she is daddy’s little girl. Soon their fantastic doings (read the book,) do get back and it spells trouble for the lovers and Waverly’s father has ominous plans to split the lovers apart but someone who I didn’t see to stop the plan stepped in and saved the lovebirds. 
Reading this book really was at times emotional and you felt for the MC. I was rooting for them and hoping that they would be together in the end. I couldn’t understand how the wives stayed with the father- the author has a way with her writing and she really has a way with getting you to invest and feel her characters’ pain. The ending is great and it opens to what is book 2 in the Arrogant series.

***A gifted copy was provided by the author for my honest review****

My rating: 4.7 stars *****


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