#VBT Review: Forever Reckless - Eve L. Mitchell

VBT# Review - Forever Reckless -Book #1 Fourth and Forever Series -  Eve L. Mitchell - June 2026

Right, pull up a chair and let me tell you about my latest read, because this one has been living in my head rent-free since I turned the final page. Forever Reckless by Eve L. Mitchell came my way through Zooloos Book Tours, and I'll be the first to admit  it's a little different from my usual picks. But honestly? Sometimes different is exactly what you need.

You know the type of book I mean, don't you? That delicious new adult sports college romance where the golden boy on campus turns out to be far more complicated than his billboard smile suggests. Eve L. Mitchell has taken everything we love about the genre,  the tension, the forbidden pull, the slow unravelling of carefully built walls  and wrapped it around a story with real bite to it.

Our hero, Dante Spence, is the kind of man who looks like he has it all. Quarterback. National champion. Star of the Alabama Lions. The sort of charming, untouchable presence that fills every billboard and every room he walks into. But Savannah,  the dean's daughter and his reluctant tutor for the semester is far too sharp to be taken in by a performance. And a performance, she soon realises, is precisely what Dante has been giving everyone around him.

What I loved most about this book is the slow, satisfying peel of Dante's carefully constructed armour. The pill bottle with the wrong name on it. The phone call Savannah wasn't meant to hear. The way that golden smile simply vanishes when he thinks no one is looking. Eve Mitchell builds the suspense quietly and cleverly, threading it through the romance so that you're never quite sure whether to root for these two or shake them both by the shoulders. Dante is morally grey in the most compelling way  ruthless and reckless, yes, but also deeply human beneath all of it.

And Savannah is no pushover. She knows the rules. She knows what's at stake for her own reputation and her father's position. She knows she should walk away. The fact that she can't  that she doesn't want to  is what makes this story so thoroughly readable. Their frenemies-to-lovers slow burn had me completely in its grip.

If you're a fan of Daniela Romero, Ana Huang, or Peyton Corrine , this one will absolutely hit the spot. It's angsty and atmospheric, romantic and dangerous in equal measure. I raced through it in a sitting and a half, which is basically the highest praise I can give anything.


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