Review: Peyton's Path (Finding Fate Series Book 1) by SM Olivier

Peyton's Path by S.M. Olivier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Angsty NA Reverse Harem

I do love a good Reverse Harem and this is a very slow burn RH book. The characters are all unique and interesting with very colourful pasts that are revealed slowly throughout the book. They all have their issues and those issues affect their relationships with each other. As the main characters are in their senior year at high school there all the shenanigans that go on at that tumultuous time of life, but there are also family histories that play into current difficulties.

Peyton has just found out that the man she think is her father isn't, he's actually her biological uncle. This comes as somewhat of a relief because he's an horrendous parent. Peyton was given this information as part of an explanation as to why they uprooting and travelling to another part of the country to live in a cottage on the grounds of her grandfather's house. Her biological father and his father live in her grandfather's house. Apparently her after her grandmother's death, her grandfather decided that he wanted to bring the family back into the fold by offering her step-father a job in the family firm, something he desperately needs as he has a rubbish employment record.

This situation is pretty awful with resentment coming from her biological father and his new family. Her step-father isn't happy about raising his brother's child all these years and being cut off from the family money. Peyton's mother is a doormat and Peyton has spent most of her life trying to protect her mother.

Starting at a new school has meant losing her dance scholarship at a prestigious dance school, the support of her best friends and their families, and her job at the dance school. Peyton knows that people are going to gossip about her and she has no support. Then she meets a group of friends and things start to look better.

There are quite a few triggers in this book, so be aware if you wish to avoid talk of suicide attempts, death of a family member, abuse of spouse or child and bullying.

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