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Pretty Reckless by L.J. Shen
4.0

I wish I could rewrite you out of my life
But all your pages are highlighted
Dog-eared and thumbed to death
I can no longer read you
But you are still my favorite poem.


It's 2:30 am and this all I have. Brb when I have had enough sleep or sanity.

Edit for full review (kinda):

Bumping my rating to 4 stars to round up a 3.5 rating.

I have a love-hate relationship with this book. I really liked it but it's sooooo dramatic.

For high school students to have so much problem, drama, conflict, and so much revenge. I understand it's fictitious and anything can be conceived into a story and I liked those elements in this book.

The characters don't have that much depth in them. I read Broken Knight before this and it almost has the same theme of hurting-each-other-till-we-realize-we-actually-love-each-other. I might wait a while to read on Vaughn's story.

Everything just seemed to happen easily. Everything moved so smoothly that you just ignore it. My favourites were Penn's poems.

I don't know what to say besides I read this only to cleanse from fantasy cause I can't seem to get into the second book of An Ember in the Ashes.