Wild Reckless by Ginger Scott

Posted April 24, 2015 by Debbie in Book Reviews / 3 Comments

Wild Reckless by Ginger ScottWild Reckless by Ginger Scott
Published by Ginger Scott on March 17th 2015
Genres: New Adult
Pages: 400
Format: eBook
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four-half-stars

Kensington Worth had a vision for her senior year. It involved her best friends, her posh private school in downtown Chicago and time alone with her piano until her audition was perfected, a guaranteed ticket into the best music programs in the world.Instead, a nightmare took over. It didn’t happen all at once, but her life unraveled quickly—a tiny thread that evil somehow kept pulling until everything precious was taken from her. She was suddenly living miles away from her old life, trapped in an existence she didn’t choose—one determined to destroy her from the inside, leaving only hate and anger behind. It didn’t help that her neighbor, the one whose eyes held danger, was enjoying every second of her fall.Owen Harper was trouble, his heart wild and his past the kind that’s spoken about in whispers. And somehow, his path was always intertwined with Kensington’s, every interaction crushing her, ruining her hope for any future better than her now. Sometimes, though, what everyone warns is trouble, is exactly what the heart needs. Owen Harper was consumed with darkness, and it held onto his soul for years. When Kensington looked at him, she saw a boy who’d gotten good at taking others down when they threatened his carefully balanced life. But the more she looked, the more she saw other things too—good things…things to admire.Things…to love. Things that made her want to be reckless.And those things…they were the scariest of all.

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DebbieThoughts

 

There are so many things that I loved about Wild Reckless.  The story line which encompassed so many different emotions.  The social issues that were written with such beauty, realism and truth.  The characters who each held so many layers that the author slowly exposed in the most distinct and heartfelt ways.  Those are just a few things that not only enhanced my entire reading experience but has me thinking about this story days after having finished reading.

Connecting to Kensington was effortless.  There was a warmth about her that just enveloped my entire being.  The author shares with us a character who is strong, but at times unsure of herself.  A character whose dreams are not her own but she lives them anyway.  A character whose emotions run so deep within her soul they bleed into you.

Owen is exactly what attracts so many.  He appears reckless.  He appears dangerous.  He is attitude, arrogant and self assured.  Oh but he is so much more.  He is warmth and confusion.  He is danger and protection.  He is a young man who has seen too much, given too much and has lost the ability to put himself before others.  He is the illusion he portrays and he is the caring and hurt young boy who had no choice to but grow up before his time.

This is a magnificent story of the walls people build around their hearts and mind.  The slow sometimes painful, sometimes surprising look at what happens when you allow those walls to be brought down.  A story of what happens when life takes you in directions you never expected.  When the one person who you know you should stay away from provides you with what you never knew you wanted or needed.  A story of family, heartbreak, surprise and learning that sometimes it only takes one person, one event to alter the course of your life.

Family dynamics in many forms is a strong and guiding force to the story.  The author shares with us the vast differences in how people live, survive and bond.  A beautiful, sometime sorrowful story of two families and their destruction and their fight to find their own kind of normal.

From the smallest of characters to the main characters each and everyone plays such a critical role.  I managed to fall in love, feel strong dislike, shatter into a million pieces and long with a fierce desire.

The surprises well, there were many and they were huge.  Shock and dismay is a perfect way to sum up my feelings on the many twists and turn in this story.

I fell in love with this story. I fell in the love with the characters and I fell in love with the realism, the emotions, the happiness and even the heartbreak.  I enjoyed this book so much than once I had finished reading I went and purchased other titles by this author.

Wild Reckless is one of those books that you won’t forget.  It is one that after a time you will want to pick up and read again.  It is one of those books where you feel as though the characters are people you know and you want with desperation for their stories to play out with happiness and love.

 

 

four-half-stars

About Ginger Scott

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of seven young and new adult romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After and Wild Reckless.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than 15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

3 responses to “Wild Reckless by Ginger Scott

  1. Kristy Petree

    Great review! I really liked this book, too. There was so much drama, though! I’ve also read Ginger’s books This Is Falling and You and Everything After, which I actually liked better. But Wild Reckless was great in a different way. Thanks.

  2. Kristy:

    Thank you so much for your kind words. I have to say Wild Reckless was simply amazing. A fellow blogger here at Literati Literature Lovers told me I had to read this book and well she is always spot on when recommending books.

    I adore the way Ginger Scott writes and purchased so many of her books after reading Wild Reckless.

  3. Sometimes what everyone warns is trouble, is exactly what the heart needs — I love that line. This sounds like a good read. Thanks for the review.

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