Name: Lacey's review of Ricochet by Krista Ritchie
Item: Ricochet
Rating: 5
Author: Lacey

Krista Ritchie

Becca Ritchie

​As a sex addict, Lily Calloway must do the impossible. Stay celibate for 90 days.

Cravings and fantasies become her new routine, but while Loren Hale recovers from his alcohol addiction, Lily wonders if he’ll realize what a monster she really is. After all, her sexual compulsions begin to rule her life the longer she stays faithful to him.

Progress. That’s what Lily’s striving for. But by trying to become closer to her family—people who aren’t aware of her addiction—she creates larger obstacles. When she spends time with her youngest sister, she learns more about her than she ever imagined and senses an unsettling connection between Daisy and Ryke Meadows.

With Lily and Lo’s dysfunctional relationship teetering and unbalanced, they will need to find a way to reconnect from miles apart. But the inability to “touch” proves to be one of the hardest tests on their road to recovery. Some love brushes the surface. Some love is deeper than skin.

Lily and Lo have three months to discover just how deep their love really goes.

Addicted #2

Ricochet

lara :)

"no Lil, you're the opposite. you're my stability... my home"

Fans of New Adult romances will love this story of two wealthy college students who are using their own addictions to escape their screwed up worlds, but end up falling in love in the process.

An Addicted Novel

Sophia

“I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.”

And then she puts her back against the ledge and says something to the local man. He nods, and Ryke screams at her, “NO!”

We can all hear the fear and anger writhing in his voice. But it’s too late. 

I don't like the dynamic between him and Daisy because it's inappropiate and weird but I'm so impressed right now

And then, I see Ryke ascending the cliff, grabbing cutouts in the rock and putting his feet in divots, hiking his body up and then over with endurance and strength. He doesn’t need a local to show him the way. He’s free climbing, I realize. Solo free climbing. Without a rope. I guess, in some way, he was able to do what he had planned before coming on this trip.

 guy touched me. I didn’t touch them. Sex was the last thing on my mind tonight.

I know that they were in each other's life basically since the start but I feel like I forget everytime what that entails...

I’ve ridden on his back before. When we were kids. When I couldn’t make it up the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado. When I forgot to wear closed-toed shoes in the Costa Rican rain forest. When I just needed a lift.

He grins back, and I swear they have another “moment”— Rose looking like she wants to rip his face off, and Connor looking like he wants to kiss her for it. So weird.

I sometimes forget that they are not in their thirties and married with two ..cats(?)😂

Rose stares at the ceiling like oh my God. “You want to know how many times in a day I question why I’m with you?”

“If you told me you were going to exaggerate, I would have picked that, but I thought we were being realistic here, hun.”

And this will be the first time I don’t have a New Year’s kiss. [...]

Even when I was a kid, Lo would put his hands on my cheeks and kiss me really quickly, and we’d burst into laughter afterwards.

He’d end up chasing me through the fancy parties that our parents brought us to, trying to steal another.

I’m trying to live without my best friend. It’s hard.

 whole reason for waking up in the morning and putting on a smile was taken from me.

Krista 

He groans, and I picture him rubbing his eyes warily. "I want to be there with you," he says. "I don't want Ryke to be the one to protect you. That's my job, and I plan to be a hell of a lot better at it than before.."

Kaylin

mona <3

india amariah gauge

Avery

Lacey

This was a super quick read but I think the perfect bridge from book 1 to book 3. I think when the series was still indie this was considered a novella but now it’s a book in the series. I really liked it because it added so much to plot line and gave the characters on the world growth which you never really see when it comes to shorter/novella type books. But I do think it being an actual book in the series works since it does so much. But it made me so excited for book 3!

Priscilla Stanfield

4/5⭐️ • 2/5🌶️

This was a super quick read but I think the perfect bridge from book 1 to book 3. I think when the series was still indie this was considered a novella but now it’s a book in the series. I really liked it because it added so much to plot line and gave the characters on the world growth which you never really see when it comes to shorter/novella type books. But I do think it being an actual book in the series works since it does so much. But it made me so excited for book 3!

౨ৎ | "couples who divorce usually don't get remarried?” “i’m remarrying you, lil, fuck, i’d remarry you a hundred times until it stuck” “even if i make you miserable?" "you don't make me miserable. you make me want to live. and i want to live with you."

one: i still love lily calloway. i still love loren hale. i still love rose calloway. i still love lilo. i love how this book was centred mainly around lily it made me love her even more (i didn’t think that was possible).

two: ryke meadows is weird, under no circumstance is it okay to say “a man needs to make you cum twice before fucking you” or whatever he said. daisy is a CHILD. ugh. also he’s a c u n t to lily so go away actually. 

౨ৎ | "couples who divorce usually don't get remarried?” “i’m remarrying you, lil, fuck, i’d remarry you a hundred times until it stuck” “even if i make you miserable?" "you don't make me miserable. you make me want to live. and i want to live with you."

— ★ 4/5

one: i still love lily calloway. i still love loren hale. i still love rose calloway. i still love lilo. i love how this book was centred mainly around lily it made me love her even more (i didn’t think that was possible).

two: ryke meadows is weird, under no circumstance is it okay to say “a man needs to make you cum twice before fucking you” or whatever he said. daisy is a CHILD. ugh. also he’s a c u n t to lily so go away actually. 

Ellie M.

too much of ryke but not enough lilo and coballoway 😗🤍 this was certainly an enjoyable and quick read!! it was interesting to read about lily and lo’s incredibly difficult journey to recovery and there were a few hilarious scenes lmao 😭 i now love them more than ever ☺️

another buddy read with my bestie, claudia 🫶🏻✨

it was interesting to focus more on lilys addiction & seeing the past and why she may be the way she is!

Belen Silva

Isabella 

I liked how we get more in depth with the characters relationship with others. I wouldn't say I loved this book, but I didn't hate it as well. It's a good connecting book following what happened in the previous book, and I can't wait for Lily and Lo to reunite. I think that the first two books aimed to give background information and set up the plot for the rest of the books so I’m not complaining on how this book went. This is a 3 star rating book though, but I loved Connor and Rose so much that I added some points. I'm actually more invested in their relationship than Lily and Lo's. I'm also quite uncomfortable with the whole Daisy and Ryke relationship since Daisy's a minor.

Saya Snyder 

I really liked it 

The story was really good 

Not life changing 

THIS BOOK TORTURED MY EMOTION OH MY GOD 😭

only took me a night to finish this. v good.

Raven 

wow. I really enjoyed this one! I liked the bits of Rose & Connor that we saw (can't wait for their books!!) I'm also really proud of Lily & Lo..I have so much love for them and I'm only two books in.

anna haskins 

2.5 mucho texto y no llegó Lo nunca
Lo único salvable del libro fue Connor y Rose y aparecieron como dos veces, Ryke cae mal hasta ahora, quiero llegar a su libro ya

I think it was a good book within the serie, to get a inside in how Lily really felt

Ellen

boring as hell. (this just wasn’t it for me)

loren isn’t THAT bad and ryke terrifies  me (leave daisy alone pls) 

very proud of lily and lo for working on themselves!!

rose, connor and ryke best supporters wooooooo

character ranking for book 2:

-ROSE, connor

-lily and daisy

-ryke

-loren 

boring as hell. (this just wasn’t it for me)

rose and connor slay!

daisy i love, lily i love🫶

loren isn’t THAT bad and ryke terrifies  me (leave daisy alone pls) 

very proud of lily and lo for working on themselves!!

rose, connor and ryke best supporters wooooooo

Faith Kitowski

oh my gosh, i love this series so much. this was so painful to read this but it gave so much more understanding into all the characters.

Erin Campbell

** spoiler alert **
           eh it was decent. i didn’t like that the entire book took place when Lo was in rehab but i did like seeing more flashbacks of them together. i’m still excited for what’s to come though!

Tasha Ells

Everything that was wrong in the first one was fixed in this one and made me care about the other characters. I love that they actually got help and are working on themselves

Monique Nagel

I’m slowly becoming addicted to this series.

🧸

celene

This one was considerably less romance-y than Addicted to You, but I really enjoyed watching Lily's progress and her battle against her addiction, especially when she started figuring out the source of it.
The little moments between Lily and Lo were EVERYTHING to me, they have my heart <3

Ryke's and Daisy's storyline was... weird. I hate it because I really liked Ryke in the previous book, but with this whole flirting with a sixteen-year-old I was so weirded out. Like PLEASE Daisy's age literally adds nothing to the plot, why couldn't the authors age her up a little? And the way they brushed over Ryke being molested... not cool.

Connor and Rose still serving cunt, as they should❤️

livs

not as good as the first one, because lily and lo didnt meet but it was still good and i get why it had to be a book. 

so proud of them both and their progress

i really cannot finish this series it’s so bad.

Savannah Muron

dorah luxieux

i got more insight on lily and lo's relationship before the first book which gave me a better understanding on how they came to be. i'm honestly rooting for them.

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I was debating whether I should review this book or not, since I zipped through this in order to read Addicted for Now, but what the hell, I loved this book, so I want to gush! It was so much fun to read, and there’s so much going on in this book. It’s actually a full-length sized novel, even though it’s book 1.5, but I was totally fine with that! Because I whole-heartedly adore this series! It’s become my new favorite series. I really can’t believe I didn’t start it the second Addicted to You came out. Actually, no–I’d rather the entire series already be out for me to read… because it’s killing me to wait for Connor and Rose’s story (Kiss the Sky), Ryke and Daisy’s (Hothouse Flower), and the rest of Lily and Lo’s. So if you haven’t read this series, please, please do. It’s incredibly well written, the characters are imperfectly perfect, and you’ll fall in love with every single one of them, like I did (with Connor and Ryke especially).

And I don’t think… I don’t think many people can really understand what it’s like to be so invested in someone–to share every single moment and then to have them ripped from you. We have an unhealthy, co-dependent relationship.
I know this.
And I’m trying to change, to grow beyond him, but why does that have to be a stipulation?
I want to grow with him.
I want to be with him.
I want to love Lo without people telling me that our love is too much.
One day, I hope we’ll get there. Hope, that’s all I have to go on right now. It’s my driving force. It’s literally what keeps me standing.

This quote basically sums up what Lily is going through in Ricochet. After the mess they were in during Addicted to You, Lily and Lo finally found the help Lo needed to fight his alcoholism and he’s off the rehab now, leaving Lily alone to battle her own addiction. Which is, ahem, to sex. And she can’t have sex during the three months Lo is in rehab, not only for Lo and their relationship, but also for herself. She has to fight her addiction just as Lo is fighting his own.

The authors are so freaking gooood at wringing out the emotions, the pain and desperation Lily feels. She’s terrified that she’ll fall to temptation without Lo there to help her, but she’ll fight through it for him, because the only thing she wants more than sex is Lo. And even though Lo doesn’t show up much in the book, we know that he’d give Lily the world if she wanted it. It’s this kind of intensity, this kind of connection, that I love about Lily and Lo and their relationship. They make me love them and feel so much for them, hurt so much for them, and in the end, cheer for them.

“I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.”

But I have to admit, a large part of why I loved Ricochet (and this series)? The fantastic secondary characters. We have more of Connor, Rose, Ryke, and a new addition, Daisy, all of whom are Lily and Lo’s closest friends and family. Don’t you just love books where the secondary characters are just as invigorating to read about as the main characters? I love it when authors can make me care and love the them just as much as the main characters. And Krista and Becca Ritchie do an excellent job at that. I fell in love even more with Connor, Rose, Ryke, and Daisy. Each of them have such distinctive personalities, strengths, and faults that I love to read about.

In Ricochet, we get bunches more of Ryke, the flaming asshole, and Daisy, the model and sixteen-year-old. I had to mention Daisy’s age, because in this book, Daisy and Ryke have something going on. They’re not together or sleeping with each other or anythign like that (because that’d be a hello to jail-time for Ryke), but they have something forming, and oh my god, I can’t wait for Daisy to turn eighteen! *evil, giddy laugh* Daisy and Ryke’s story is seriously going to rock my socks off. But anyways, the three of them plus Daisy’s friends have gone on a yacht to Mexico for Daisy’s birthday, and this was seriously the funniest part of the book. Lily is already a hilarious narrator, but with Ryke, the abrasive, rude, no-words-held-back guy, on vacation with her? Best thing ever. But I loved that even with the hysterics, Ryke truly does have a positive influence on Lily, and supports her throughout her abstinence.

“One,” I say in a small voice. “I will not look at porn.”
“I thought this was supposed to be a proclamation.” Ryke rocks on the balls of his feet. He leans forward and says, “I can’t even hear you.”
“Say it like you mean it,” Rose agrees with a supportive nod.
“Scream it,” Connor adds.
“I will not look at porn!”…
“Two. I will not masturbate!”…
“Three. I will not be compulsive about sex!”…
“And four,” I pause as I look at these final words. They mean the absolute most to me. “I will not cheat on Loren Hale!”

And so month by month, Lily tries her hardest to not have sex. She has the unwavering support of Rose, Connor, and Ryke, and she’s even started seeing a therapist. We also get to see various flashbacks of when Lily and Lo were younger, and they are so freaking adorable together. But with these flashbacks, we also see vaguely how Lily became addicted to sex. There are uphills and downhills for Lily and Lo in the past and the present, but at least now they’re choosing to fight their addictions and fight for each other.

No guy touched me. I didn’t touch them. Sex was the last thing on my mind tonight.
Each day feels like an obstacle.
And a victory.

Ricochet is more of a companion book to the series, but I’d still highly recommend reading it. There are things in Ricochet that are mentioned in Addicted for Now (book 2), and the storylines for Rose and Connor, and Daisy and Ryke build up more in this book. Ricochet takes place during those three months Lily and Lo are apart because of rehab, and we get to see how Lily copes without her lifeline. Fans of the series won’t be disappointed with Ricochet.

This book–and series–is the bomb. Seriously.

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