The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia

The Lovely Reckless

by Kami Garcia

Seventeen-year-old Frankie Devereux would do anything to forget the past. Haunted by the memory of her boyfriend&#x;s death, she lives her life by one dangerous rule: nothing matters. Then a reckless mistake forces her to leave her privileged life in the Heights to move in with her dad, an undercover cop. She transfers to public school in the Downs, where fistfights in the halls don&#x;t faze anyone and illegal street racing is more popular than football. Marco Leone is the fastest street racer in the Downs. Tough, sexy, and hypnotic, he makes it impossible for Frankie to ignore him. But the risks Marco takes for his family could have devastating consequences for them both. When Frankie discovers his secret, she has to make a choice. Will she let the pain of the past determine her future? Or will she risk what little she has left to follow her heart?

Reviewed by liz089 on

3 of 5 stars

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I liked reading this book.. though I did not find it very original. It reminded me a lot of other books in this genre, like the Perfect Chemistry series by Simone Elkeles and the Pushing the Limits series by Katie McGarry.
This book has its own twist to it, with the memory loss and PTSD, but the whole class difference in town and Shop in class.. car races.. It all reminded me too much of those I mentioned above.

The main characters were okay.. They were likeable enough, even though I wanted to shake Franky from time to time. She made some weird and stupid choices that made no sense at all.. She was so lucky things did not end up worse because of some choices. I did like how she wanted to add more by giving some of the side characters more depth (like Lex, Cruz and Abel) but all in all they were nothing special.. just kind of generic.

The romance was okay as well.. I liked their chemistry, but I thought they went way too soon over to the whole LOVE thing. They are 17/18 years old !! What do you know of the forever kind of love at that age !?! They barely know each other !

So all in all this book was okay. Not special, but well.. like a lot of other books in this genre. Though it does made me want to read Perfect Chem again haha ^^

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