Book Review
Pretty
Book 2 of King’s Heart
By L. Waltree
“I can’t help thinking how pretty he is. Like a doll.”
Content warning: this book contains abuse and off-page sexual assault.
Javi and Declan are seniors in high school, and fall for each other in the usual way of teenagers: romantic, horny, heart-stopping. When they break up, it’s equally dramatic. But deep down, there is still love that shines through even the worst of age-typical poor decision making.
Javi and Declan run a delicious route of annoyance to friends to lovers to enemies to lovers to friends again. It’s a beautiful, emotional journey toward a healthy relationship. It was easy to get caught up in their story, waiting for their much-deserved happy ending.
Check out Pretty for high angst, hurt/comfort, drama, pain, jealousy, possessiveness, obsession, first love, and tons of hot sex. It’s the engrossing story of two young men who are determined to build something real out of their own broken pieces.
This is book 2 of a duology, but I had no trouble understanding it without reading the first book.
Pretty
Declan
He was supposed to be the one that understood.
The one that was different. But he’s just like everyone else.
It doesn’t really matter, though. At school, I’m the weird outcast, and he’s the big popular jock.
We were doomed from the start.
And yet, I keep finding myself drawn to him, no matter how much I don’t want to be.
I need to stay away, but I don’t think I can.
Javier
He was all I had in the world.
Mi muñequito.
Then he threw it all away.
So I wiped my hands of him.
Or I tried.
But he crept his way back into my brain. Back into my life.
I need to leave him in the past, but I don’t think I can.
Pretty is an MM second chance romance. Here’s what you can expect: friends to enemies to lovers, secret relationship, “mine”, neighbors, jock x outcast, high angst, and a Latino MC. Please check the CW to see if this book is for you.
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