Pretty Reckless

Pretty Reckless

Jane Anthony2017
From USA Today bestselling author, Jane Anthony, comes a stunning, standalone masterpiece about addiction, recovery, and reckless, ugly, never-ending love. Chase and I were doomed from the start.My life was chaotic, and his was calm. He planned for the future, while I lived for the day. I danced in the sun, while he hid in the shadows.The day I discovered he shared my demons was the day I lost my heart to him.The tattooed man with aqua eyes and bowtie lips; we were addicted hearts bruised and battered and torn in half, yet when put together made one seamless whole.Chase wasn't a man who fell for women like me, and I wasn't a woman who fell at all, yet he made the plummet seem so sweet.So I leapt, I crashed ... then I let go.I was never meant to fall in love. But neither was he.
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Cat Imb@thereadingcat
4 stars
Sep 13, 2021

I received an ebook of this novel from the author, and I voluntarily reviewed it. Thank you Jane Anthony! Swoon!!! This book was so swoon worthy. It deals with serious subject matter - it’s heavy and dark - but still manages to be exceptionally sweet. Chase and Kat are complicated. They’re fractured humans who need to help each other mend their fissures. They have demons that are rooted in them - a lifetime of them. Seeing them revealed throughout the novel is heartbreaking yet done in a beautiful way. I’m so happy that this book featured the greek culture. I’m not talking about mythology and demi-gods. No. I’m talking about the beauty of the language, the type of families they are. It’s about time Greeks were represented in contemporary romance, and it made me so happy to see it. I also want to applaud Jane Anthony for bringing up such hush hush topics such as alcoholism, suicide, dependance and addiction. She did it so well and with grace. Her characters are not perfect, but that’s what makes them beautiful. This quote is my favoutite from this book : ““Some people walk a straight line down their paths while others zigzag.” It perfectly sums up the characters and the story. Off to book 2 I go!

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Jolie@readwithme
5 stars
Sep 16, 2021

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