ana_315 's review for:

Pretty Reckless by L.J. Shen
5.0

this gave me a headache, a heartache, a full i-want-to-bang-my-head-against-the-wall-until-i-pass-out meltdown and 3 existential crises in the span of the less than 24 hours it took me to finish it. so i guess it’s a banger.

exceeded each and every expectation, mainly because i decided to read it thinking it was only gonna be a sloppy and stupid teenage romance to get me out of my reading slump. and it was not. it hit home so hard that i physically feel a hole in my heart. through the first part of the book i was only thinking “wow… this book is a total mess” and i continued to read it because i was totally rooting for Penn and Daria like i never did before. and then it all turned upside down completely and i felt like someone was reading my mind and trying to put a mirror in my face with each page. and then i realized that “wow… this book is a total blast”. and i can’t even properly explain how glad i am to have read this book at this point in my life and i think that this absolutely perfect timing was actually what made me love the story so much. it just left me with… something.

Daria is now my favorite character of all times because i’ve never related to someone more and it scared me to death.

and bless that Melody’s POV chapter because the damage it inflicted into my soul is something i rarely experienced.

i want to tattoo the last 50 pages or so into my brain now. top notch shit.