“16 year old Eden Matthews has been in and out of private schools for the last two years. She can’t seem to stop herself from closing them down. Kingsley is her last chance to finish high school and the last private school willing to accept her. She is focused on just getting through graduation until she realizes Kingsley is not like the other private schools she’s been to. The students may be different, but so is she. And after meeting Kiran Kendrick, the boy who won’t leave her alone and seems to be the source of all of her problems, she is suddenly in a world that feels more make-believe than reality. To top it off, she is being hunted by men who want to kill Kiran and her best friend Lilly is taken away to a foreign prison. Eden finds herself right in the middle of an ancient war, threatening everything she loves. She alone has to find a way to save her best friend and the boy who has captivated her heart. Reckless is an intricate story about mystery, adventure, magic and forbidden love. Eden Matthews is an unlikely heroine determined to save the world and be with her one, true love before it’s too late.” 

This is the young adult book that I was referring to in my last review. I’ve finally gotten around to reading it and I have lots to say. Some good. Some bad.

The good: The story is a great teen novel. Imperfect characters, forbidden love, the angst that wanting the impossible brings. It’s a good storyline and it has a lot of potential. I enjoyed it from an adult standpoint and could definitely appreciate it from a YA one.

It is interesting to the point that it makes you want to read the second book in the series right away, a detail that I always find important. (If you don’t really care about the second book, then how good was the first one really?)

The bad: The grammar. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about this, but the grammatical mistakes in this story are quite prolific. Normally such mistakes would have me deleting a book from my kindle within a few pages, and I would never review it — this one was different. The writing in general was much better than books normally are when they have these kinds of mistakes. By the time they really started bugging me, I was already too far into the story to turn back. It seemed to me that the first half of the book was better than the second half. I’m still glad I read it; and if at any point this novel is edited, I will happily increase my rating of the story.

If you don’t tend to notice grammar mistakes, then definitely check out this novel. You can give it a test just to see: the first book in this series of four is available for free. If you have read it, I would appreciate it if you would let me know your opinion!

/5

Like I said — if I ever find out that the grammar has been fixed, I will absolutely increase my rating! The story deserves much more than just one potion.

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