The way that Knight and Luna are at the beginning of the book is clearly unsustainable and they were both using each other as crutches. This book isn’t a true enemies-to-lovers, nor is it a friends-to-lovers, but some sort of gray area that only emerges when a lifelong friendship is destroyed in order to build a relationship from its ashes. A seahorse could move its eyes in opposite directions (Moonshine told me that herself), and Luna Rexroth was going to be my girlfriend, then fiancée, then wife. Up until then, the idea of Luna and me was, well, more of a fact. They continue to circle each other, changing in ways that neither expected, wondering if there’s still hope for a future for them. When Luna decides to attend college all the way across the country (at Vaughn’s insistence) the tenuous threads of their lifelong friendship start to fray before snapping all together when she breaks their unspoken promise. It was like feeling a once-warm body growing cold next to you in bed. I sometimes wondered what hurt more: Losing someone all of a sudden, like in a plane crash, or losing them piece by piece, like I did Knight.

He’s always been able to count on Luna who he has always believed is his endgame. On the other end is Knight, who, in addition to dealing with the complex identity issues that often stem from being adopted, is also dealing with his mother’s worsening health and further turns to booze and drugs to cope. Luna communicates through looks as much as sign language and it was nice to see her friends learn sign language to communicate with her rather than pressing her to talk. Luna is raised by her father and stepmother and is selectively mute after her mother abandoned her as a toddler.

Much like in Pretty Reckless the family dynamics are complex and the books really explore the effect that has on kids especially teenagers.

Hide her from the world and keep her mine. I wanted to zip open my skin and tuck her into me. While Knight and Luna weren’t overly present in Daria and Penn’s book they were mentioned enough by Daria that it was clear they would make for a good story. After I finished Pretty Reckless in record time and enjoyed it so thoroughly I knew I wanted to read whatever related books L.J.

Broken knight series