Hmm..

Can I just say, how did we go a whole book without them kissing, and suddenly, in Reckless, all they do is just that? Their first kiss was so underwhelming and left field—it sort of made me cringe. I was thrown off and didn't feel like reading the rest, but I was in too deep already. (Your Honour, it's Malakai Azer's fault). 

But Lauren Roberts is pretty good at writing professions of love, descriptive paragraphs, and romantic scenes. So many parts made me want to just underline the shit out of them if only I had the physical copy. I felt that the writing style this time was much more repetitive though, and I did encounter a few spelling and grammatical errors so I don't know what that was about. 

And I get that the entire book was based on the word 'Pretend,' but it was just odd. If someone kissed me like that and said, "Pretend," I'd whack them in the face. But ok. Honestly was about to throw a tantrum if it was said one more time-

and. KITT WHAT THE HELL MAN? Also... Calum..? Is he.. evil? And why is Calum suggesting this diabolical idea to Kitt? Ugh. but KAI AZER. You shall get your beauty. (Lauren Roberts, he better.) On that topic, Kai's monologue at the end felt weird because they spent the entire book in the fricking outskirts of Ilya hating on each other, making out for pretend-sakes and whatnot, Kai dragging her to all that pain just to let her go... I don't know man, kinda weird. Oh, and the ending felt a bit rushed too, like Roberts was trying to meet the word count of some essay or whatever.

* sigh * I'm in TOO deep. And with that ending, those god-forsaken 6 words that Kitt uttered, yea. I have to read the next book for certain.