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# Paperback

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Untouchable (Empire High Book 1)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Good but the Matt Bit Was Too Much at Times
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2021*

*****Spoilers*****Oh how I hovered over that 3 rating but have to give the book its due. It's well written and grabs you in at the outset which is always good for a book but so much better when it's the first one in the series too. Brooklyn is a 16 year old high school kid whose mother recently passed away so she's shuttled off from Delaware to New York to live with her uncle Jim as her dad has been a no show her entire life and Uncle Jim is the only family she has left. Jim is a janitor at a school for the richest of the rich kids so Brooklyn gets to attend the elite high school for free due to that familial relationship. Four boys at the school make up the Untouchables. Attractive, rich, popular boys, one of which is Matthew. There's just something about him that Brooklyn is losing herself over even though he doesn't even know she exists. Except when he does know who she is, made evident by him helping her when her hand got cut during a job. At some point in the book, we're introduced to a teaser in that Brooklyn is related to one of the kids at the school. I'll pause here to say that Brooklyn was comparing her features with the other kids but I don't actually remember what she looked like, not sure if it was reader or author error. Anyway, Brooklyn isn't sure who she's related to and really needs to know because she's kind of going between two boys, Felix who isn't old rich, attractive, and the school drug dealer, and Matthew who's an Untouchable, gorgeous, and seems to be more open. Throw in mean girls, because what book set in a high school doesn't have some?, and a bunch of teenaged drama and Brooklyn and Matt just can't quite connect.Brooklyn and Matt come together and break so often in this book my head spun, the craziest thing being that they've never publicly displayed whatever it is that's going on between them. Though longing stares, stolen moments in the dark and away from prying eyes are rampant, Matt can't be openly with Brooklyn because he's being blackmailed by uber rich mean girl Isabella who for some reason hates Brooklyn's guts. The who Brooklyn hate because Isabelle saw Brooklyn staring at the Untouchables at lunch was far fetched and not believable. However, perhaps the ending gave us the real reason? Unfortunately Uncle Jim dies of cancer at the end of the book and Brooklyn's father turns up at the funeral. Turns out, Brooklyn and Isabelle are sisters. As to whether or not Brooklyn can stay at the rich school is neatly solved before it can become a huge deal presuming her father continues to sends Brooklyn to that school. But the mean girl who has given Brooklyn nothing but snide remarks is related to her. Couldn't help but feel vindicated at that revelation with how Isabella treated Brooklyn in the book. It'd be nice if Brooklyn rubs it in that Isabella has a sister related to the help.Back to Brooklyn and whatever she's doing with the boys. Felix seems cool but Brooklyn can't help herself around Matt. Matt's her first kiss and wants to be her first everything. Felix is a bad influence on one hand but also open and friendly. Both boys and Brooklyn kiss but even though Brooklyn keeps going back and forth about Matt, she's willing to cut Felix loose at the promise of more fun Matt. Time and again Matt promises, fails to deliver, and Brooklyn keeps letting him back in for more of the same and the cycle continues. Matt corners Brooklyn, promises something, the next day at school Matt ignores Brooklyn, she's bewildered and angry, calls Matt a liar when next they clandestinely meet, and repeat. I gave it a pass in this book because teens, but if I decide to read the next one, I hope that's a thing of the past. It was awful at first, frustrating, then plain annoying. Before Felix, Brooklyn has one friend and that's Kennedy who attends the school on scholarship. Kennedy has lived down the hall from uncle Jim for years and knows him better than Brooklyn. Kennedy hasn't made any friends in the high school the couple of years she's attended and Kennedy and Brooklyn become friends. There may be a crush Kennedy has on Felix that Kennedy denies followed by hinting of something that happened between the two of them freshman year. Maybe more light will be shed in the next book. Mostly though, I wonder what it means for Kennedy and Brooklyn because even though they may not want it to or intend for it to, I'm thinking their relationship will change.

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    ugh
  

*by D***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2023*

So I went blind on this book based on a recommendation, boyyy did this book made me cry.  It’s a complicated story I mean. Brooklyn is grieving and all the book is about her grieving how she is adjusting to her new life. I did not realize this was not a complete book I expected maybe 3 books based on the pase of the book but I just realized it is a 7 book story. I can’t do that. Something about that just gives me anxiety. I am unsure if I will continue the story because to drag a long a story for SEVEN books just seems like too much for me. The plot seemed good but I can already imagine there will be a lot unnecessary chatter in the background and I do love knowing different characters while reading a story but don’t drag it along for such a long time.

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    Hiding in plain sight
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 22, 2023*

I like the storyline and was not expecting a teenage storyline thought it was more if an adult series but intrigued just the same. This is based more on the girl "Brooklyn" then Mathew. So surprisingly when Mathew is rarely in the book at all.  I like the characters and will continue onto book two. Let's see where this teenie bopper will go from here after their tragic realization.

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