Title: Pretty Reckless
Series: All Saints
Author: L.J. Shen
Genre: Sports Romance
Publish Date: April 26, 2019
Review Source: Social Butterfly PR
Pretty Reckless, an all-new standalone high school, bully romance
from USA Today bestselling author L.J.
Shen, is available now!
We were supposed
to be best friends.
But turned out
to be worst enemies…
Penn
They say revenge
is a dish best served cold.
I’d had four
years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart is
completely iced.
I took her first
kiss.
She took the
only thing I loved.
I was poor.
She was rich.
The good thing
about circumstances? They can change. Fast.
Now, I’m her
parents’ latest shiny project.
Her housemate.
Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much.
Yeah, baby girl,
say it—I’m your foster brother.
There’s a price to
pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s about to shell out
some serious tears.
Daria Followhill
thinks she is THE queen. I’m about to prove to her that she’s nothing but a
spoiled princess.
Daria
Everyone loves a
good-old, unapologetic punk.
But being a
bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical eye roll, and foot
you put in your adversaries’ way.
The thing about
stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when you walk all over the
people who try to hurt you.
In Penn Scully’s
case, I pierced his heart until he bled out, then left it in a trash can on a
bright summer day.
Four years ago,
he asked me to save all of my firsts for him.
Now he lives
across the hall, and there’s nothing I want more than to be his last everything.
His parting
words when he gave me his heart were that nothing in this world is free.
Now? Now he is
making me pay.
Pretty Reckless
is a great “unexpected” romance story. I am going to be completely honest and
say that it took me a bit to get into this story. It didn’t grab me from the
get-go, it was more of a slow build up for me. However, once I got there, I
loved it.
The fact that this
is a teenage love/hate relationship type of story is just why I chose it. I typically
read adult dark romances, so this was a great change of pace. It’s angsty and
raw and real and that just made it fantastic. The snarkiness of the “mean girl”
group and the deviousness of the “bad boy jocks” makes it so true to life. This
has to be the teen story of the year.
If you have not
read anything from L.J. Shen just yet, I highly recommend doing so. Pretty
Reckless would be a great start. You will fall in love with her writing, just
like I did.
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“I don’t want
you transferring into my school,” I hiss out.
Melody would gladly file a
transfer request, and Principal Prichard would salivate over the chance to
snatch him up for our football team.
“That won’t be a
problem. You guys suck so much ass, you have shit-breath.”
“Still smells
better than poverty. You’re poor, right? Your sister was just bullshitting
about being rich.”
When someone
hits me with a stick, I run over them with a tank. I’m so mean to him I want to
throw up. I hate this part of being me. The striking harder at all costs part.
“Just to make
things clear.” I put the brush down, batting my lashes. “You’re not my
step-sibling, foster brother, or a part of the family. You’re a stray dog. Last
of the litter, most unlikely to be adopted, and a charity case.”
Penn takes a
step toward me, and my heart is fighting its way out of my rib-cage. The closer
he gets, the more I realize that my heart might succeed. Penn’s eyes remind me
of a snake’s. Mesmerizing, but inhuman altogether. They weren’t like that
before.
His scent messes
with my head. I want to reach out and caress his face. Kiss his wounds better.
Beg for forgiveness. Curse him. Push him away. Cry on his shoulder for what
we’ve done. For how it ended. For what we became afterwards, because I’m full
of crap and he is totally empty.
We ruined
ourselves the day of our first kiss.
Penn looks down at
me. Time stops. It feels like the world is losing gravity, falling into a
bottomless depth in space when he clasps my chin with his thumb and finger,
lifting my head up. I can’t breathe. I’m not sure I want to, either. My towel
drops to the floor with a thud, even though I secured it over my chest. I
realize that he tugged at it intentionally. I’m naked. My body, my soul, my
heart. All my walls are down. Somewhere in my head, a red alarm blasts and my
inhibitions are getting armed, ready to fight back. I’m trying to decode his
expression. He is amused, irritated, and…playful? The mixture of emotions
doesn’t make any sense.
“Mess with me,
Followhill, and I will ruin you.”
“Not if I ruin
you first.”
L.J. Shen is an
International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult
novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby
cat.
Before she’d
settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is
really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all
across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish
companion, always forgets people's’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
She enjoys the
simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading,
HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to
five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be
outlawed.
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