One afternoon, Daria was sent on a Starbucks run while her mom had a chat with Via. She’s pretty, wears the best leotards, and is a perfect ballerina. However, it is glaringly obvious that she is a poor imitation of her mother. Daria works her butt off to try to be the ballerina that everyone thinks she should be. However, money doesn’t buy happiness and it doesn’t buy love.ĭaria’s mother was a promising ballerina before she broke her leg. Pretty Reckless is a book that is dragged down by its overdramatic angst and extremely unlikable characters.Daria Followhill is from a rich family, they live in a mansion, and she goes to a prestigious school. So I wonder if she was attempting to show contrast between their meet cute and the whole principal ordeal. Shen had written a book about Daria’s parents meet cute prior to this one. And I was immediately shocked when he’s “story arch” per say was introduced in the book. Someone else is made the villain, even though Daria is the one who ruined their hopes and dreams.Īnother example of poor character choices can be found in the high school principal. Instead, everyone seemingly forgives her and she becomes the victim. There is never a full consequence for her actions. Towards, the end of the book she does the same thing again.

And unfortunately, she does not learn from her first mistake. Daria’s actions set off a chain reaction. But the issue is that some of these characters repeatedly made the same mistake over and over. And I understand that people make mistakes. Mistakes were definitely made by these characters. The biggest issue that I had with Pretty Reckless is that all of the characters were unlikable. Unfortunately, I was left upset and disappointed. Due to my fondness of Pretty Reckless I went in with high expectations. There is just so much potential in storytelling and also so much to explore and develop amongst those characters. Especially when the rich and poor dynamic is also woven in. The enemies to lover trope is one of my favorite. Having him across the hall, is not what Daria had in mind when thinking about her senior year. After tragedy strikes, Penn is forced to move in with Daria and her family.

When they were younger, the two had met and since then revenge is something that has not left their mind. Pretty Reckless is an enemies to lovers book centered on Penn and Daria.

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