Review: Pariah - K. Walker

Review: Pariah - Book #1 Bridal Creek High Series - K. Walker - January 2020

Quinn was living a life with just her and her mother after her father died. They might not have had much money as they lived in the trailer park and she worked in a diner, but they loved each other. One evening walking home, the pair are mugged and one of them ends up wounded and the other dead. Now Quinn is an orphan and she has a long-lost aunt who has shown up to take Quinn home to live with her and her family. Soon Quinn is transported from her trailer park home in Miami to Silicon Valley - A world of wealth and elites. When Quinn arrives, she meets her cousins Tyler and Liv. We are briefly told that they are her Aunt's step-children but I do have to admit the closeness that they have to Celine, I felt like they were her real children which is why I felt that Quinn and Tyler's love/hate relationship was a little incestuous but then again it's similar to the old stepbrother romances that were once the trope to read. From the beginning, Tyler has it out for Liv and I don't know if part of it is that he's just angry as both twins are still grieving for their brother who died or if he genuinely is a bully. Near the end of the book, we see Tyler having this protector yet enemy vibe going on. Pariah was an average bullymance story, but I did love how it had a little romantic suspense feel to the story. Pariah also ends on a cliffhanger where Tyler learns about the truth of why Quinn ended up with them.