As you may or may not know, I am absolutely OBSESSED
with Pretty Reckless by LJ Shen! If you have seen my review, you understand how
much I LOVE IT! If you haven’t seen my
review, you can check it our here.
If you are unsure about this book, check out this
amazing EXCERPT and maybe it’ll help you decide. Enjoy!
We were supposed to be best friends
But turned out to be worst enemies…
-Penn
They say revenge is a dish best served cold.
I’d had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart is completely iced.
I took her first kiss.
She took the only thing I loved.
I was poor.
She was rich.
The good thing about circumstances? They can change. Fast.
Now, I’m her parents’ latest shiny project.
Her housemate. Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much.
Yeah, baby girl, say it—I’m your foster brother.
There’s a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s about to shell out some serious tears.
Daria Followhill thinks she is THE queen. I’m about to prove to her that she’s nothing but a spoiled princess.
-Daria
Everyone loves a good-old, unapologetic punk.
But being a bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical eye roll, and foot you put in your adversaries’ way.
The thing about stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when you walk all over the people who try to hurt you.
In Penn Scully’s case, I pierced his heart until he bled out, then left it in a trash can on a bright summer day.
Four years ago, he asked me to save all of my firsts for him.
Now he lives across the hall, and there’s nothing I want more than to be his last everything.
His parting words when he gave me his heart were that nothing in this world is free.
Now? Now he is making me pay.
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EXCERPT
“I don’t want you
transferring into my school,” I hiss out. Melody would gladly file
a transfer request, and
Principal Prichard would salivate over the chance to snatch him
up for our football
team.
“That won’t be a
problem. You guys suck so much ass, you have shit-breath.”
“Still smells better than
poverty. You’re poor, right? Your sister was just
bullshitting about
being rich.”
When someone hits me
with a stick, I run over them with a tank. I’m so mean to
him I want to throw up.
I hate this part of being me. The striking harder at all costs part.
“Just to make things
clear.” I put the brush down, batting my lashes. “You’re not
my step-sibling, foster
brother, or a part of the family. You’re a stray dog. Last of the
litter, most unlikely
to be adopted, and a charity case.”
Penn takes a step toward
me, and my heart is fighting its way out of my ribcage.
The closer he gets, the
more I realize that my heart might succeed. Penn’s eyes remind
me of a snake’s.
Mesmerizing, but inhuman altogether. They weren’t like that before.
His scent messes with
my head. I want to reach out and caress his face. Kiss his
wounds better. Beg for
forgiveness. Curse him. Push him away. Cry on his shoulder for
what we’ve done. For
how it ended. For what we became afterwards, because I’m full of
crap and he is totally
empty.
We ruined ourselves the
day of our first kiss.
Penn looks down at me.
Time stops. It feels like the world is losing gravity, falling
into a bottomless depth
in space when he clasps my chin with his thumb and finger,
lifting my head up. I
can’t breathe. I’m not sure I want to, either. My towel drops to the
floor with a thud, even
though I secured it over my chest. I realize that he tugged at it
intentionally. I’m
naked. My body, my soul, my heart. All my walls are down.
Somewhere in my head, a
red alarm blasts and my inhibitions are getting armed, ready
to fight back. I’m
trying to decode his expression. He is amused, irritated, and…playful?
The mixture of emotions
doesn’t make any sense.
“Mess with me,
Followhill, and I will ruin you.”
“Not if I ruin you
first.”
ABOUT LJ SHEN
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L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.
Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets people's’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.
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