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Reckless by Elsie Silver

112 reviews

ines_santos13's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dianaschmidty's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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belle13's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Tropes/Themes: Cowboy Romance, Surprise Baby, Cinnamon Roll MMC

Amount of spice: 🔥🔥🔥

Explicitness: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

This was by far my favourite in the series so far and I would be surprised if the next one beat it, to be honest. The absolute highlight of this book was Summer and Winter’s sibling relationship, it made me cry because it was just so wholesome. In fact, I loved all the sisterhood vibes in this book because Winter’s relationship with Sloane is also really lovely (Willa can absolutely kick rocks at this point I have no interest in her).

I adored both Winter and Theo and even though it was very sweet and a little cutesy which is something I usually don’t like a lot of, I still loved every minute. Also, this trope just hits so good and it’s an instant favourite of mine every time. This was sexy, a little cosy and really addictive.

The only reason this didn’t get five stars was because these two muppets had unprotected sex after having just been through a surprise accidental pregnancy and assumed the pull out method was all good (Winter is supposed to be a doctor so this confused me). Genuinely, this annoyed me enough to knock off 0.25 points because it was completely out of character.

I would recommend this if you love a secret or surprise baby trope, cinnamon roll MMCs and ice-queens who are still learning to deal with all their big emotions.

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abiigrl's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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annikenr's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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simplysimone's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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linnea_tornblom's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kailawalton's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book has a pregnancy trope in it. While I’m not a fan of said trope, Elsie writes her characters so well, especially her male main characters that it’s something I could easily overlook. Who wouldn’t than a Theo in their life tbh?

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plsnotanotherdamselindistress's review against another edition

3.5

emotional lighthearted

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

I really liked the change-up in the dynamic of bad-boy afraid of love and sunshine girly makes him want a relationship because this mMC loves a lot and is not afraid to love hard while the fMC has suffered in the past because of a variety of things making her distancing herself emotionally and act a little self-distructive.

For a trope I usually really dislike this was executed quite well. Trying not to spoiler anything...the reaction of the mMC to the child seemed genuine and was better than what usually happens in these romances.

But there are a lot of tiny things I would critize...but only quite small things like some none inclusive language that unfortunately add up which is why this book was not able to reach 5 stars.

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wts_tiffany's review against another edition

4.0

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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