Content Warnings - Bully Boys

Welcome

Bully Boy as a series is a high-spice romcoms filled with humor, love, discovery, resilience, and acceptance. But it is also a take on the bully/reverse-bully romance, featuring HEAs that are well-earned. Readers seeking books purely for spice will find quite a bit of plot here, while plot-enthusiasts will find these books utterly dripping with steamy scenes. But if you enjoy a good mix of the two, then what are you waiting for? Get on in here, I wrote this for you.

For readers who detest spoilers of any kind, feel free to ignore this section and go right on to picking yourself up a copy of the books.

However, if you are a reader who is particularly selective about the content you read, no matter the reason, then please click on the following tabs (with the full knowledge you might be spoiling key moments in the books for yourself)…

👉 Specific Content Tags for Bully Boys: Fresh (Spoilers)

Are the spoiler-free readers all gone? Yes? Alright then!

(Takes a deep breath…)

General

homophobia, both external & internal
bullying
frat culture
hazing
rumors of house ghost
mentions of Vietnam draft & attempts at avoidance
mention of past self-inflicted harm (not MC or LI)
touching of throat (no choking)
a widower fondly reminiscing about his husband
an egregious misuse of nicknames

Violence comes in the form of:

the MC punches the LI's ex

Steam

All steamy scenes are open door between two explicitly consenting adult men. Enjoy those chapters without fear, y'all!

consent-as-kink
MM(+M) / sharing
praise (oh no)
glazing / painting / marking
rimming
sex in shared/semi-public spaces
first times
big jocks in tiny skirts
a flagrant amount of neck kisses

👉 Specific Content Tags for Bully Boys: Fling (Spoilers)

General

LI's internalized homophobia
bullying / mockery
an egregious misuse of words that should not be nicknames
a flagrant amount of sass
vague references to past trauma/injury (missing finger)
swearing in two languages (there's a glossary at the end)
visa/immigration angst (Note: from an author dealing with visa/immigration angst)

Violence comes in the form of:

the (smaller) MC shoves the (larger) LI's around, though it's before they get together
non-sexual touching of throat / light choking

Steam

All steamy scenes are open door between two explicitly consenting adult men. Enjoy those chapters without fear, y'all!

consent-as-kink
praise (oh no)
sex in semi-public spaces
first times (LI)

👉 Specific Content Tags for Bully Boys: Flirt (Spoilers)

General

internalized homophobic idiocy
frat culture
hazing
bullying / mockery
an egregious misuse of words that should not be nicknames
swearing in two languages (there's a glossary at the end)

Violence comes in the form of:

the (smaller) LI shoves the (larger) MC around, though it's before they get together
non-sexual touching of throat / light choking

Steam

All steamy scenes are open door between two explicitly consenting adult men. Enjoy those chapters without fear, y'all!

consent-as-kink
praise (oh no)
sex in semi-public spaces
first times

Other

All that said, if you run across something in these books you believe should have been on this list, or is just plain wildly incorrect, please hit that Contact button above and let me know so I can fix it. I've tried my best to work with primary sources and researched the heck out of my topics, but I'm under no illusion that I (or these books) are perfect. And too, while this series is ultimately a work of fiction, some portions were also drawn off (or at least extrapolated from) my personal, lived experiences, and therefore might be somewhat unreliable (and definitely biased). It's difficult sometimes to know what might shock someone to whom this isn't their 'normal' when you're so close to the subject matter.

Help from readers like you has been invaluable in making sure this series is as enjoyable as possible for everyone. These books wouldn't even exist without the support of so many amazing people, and I am truly grateful and touched by the response it has received right from the outset of its creation, on through the path to publishing, and beyond.

I'm so excited for you to meet the Men of Minotaur House on their journeys to a very satisfying Happily Ever After.

- CJ Pines