Review: 3.5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
Ahhh, this is one of those reviews that I hate to write. I have been dreading this post for days. Broken Hart is book one in the Hart Family series. You can buy all the books individually, Broken Hart, Shattered Hart, Loving Hart, and Unbroken Hart. Or you can buy them in a four book collection. Go with the collection. Anyway, so many of my friends recommended the Hart Family series. I had added it to my Kindle months ago but hadn’t read it yet. After receiving another recommendation for it I decided it was finally time to take the plunge and read it.I am going to complain about a few things during this review but know that in reality for as much as I’m about to bitch about some things I really didn’t dislike the story. If not for some of the things I’m about to mention it would have surely gotten four stars or higher.The story felt rushed. Very rushed. It’s only about 250 pages so since it’s so short I understand we had to fit a lot into a small space, but everything was rushed making the flow feel off. Because the story is short I found there to be way too much telling and not enough showing. We could have increased the length of this story by double in order to have more interactions between characters and more showing. There are pages and pages of just being told things about the story and moving the plot forward rather than actually getting to see those events. This also leads to conversations that felt unnatural. It’s hard to explain but it was almost as if the characters speech was too perfect. Conversations were used to move the plot forward rather than develop character relationships. Which isn’t really wrong or a bad thing, but I like to see character development happen in conversation as well.There is also a loose to no plot situation happening in Broken Hart. It reminds me quite a bit of French Quarter: Hot in the City where the plot is just a reason for them to have sex. Lots and lots of sexy sex.  Now don’t get me wrong I’m ok with that, I just wish I would have known that going in. It’s good porn but you probably won’t find your next book boyfriend between these pages.This brings up to the next point, the sexy times.  The dirty talk is pretty amazing. The sex itself was also pretty hot. Just the right level of description and there are some exciting locations/situations that they find themselves in.  The only problem was that in EVERY single sex scene Sabrina talks about him hammering into her.“The hammering against my cervic continued, and I seriously consider that I might be about to pass out, or that my heart might give out, but honestly… what a way to go.”“The repeated hammering at the bottom of my womb destroyed me and I erupted.”I do not find this to be a turn on in any way shape or form. It hurts. While reading I couldn’t believe that anyone would actually find that pleasurable. But, in the name of research, I did a poll with some wonderful ladies are willing to discuss anything and apparently many women do find excessive hammering a turn on. So I will no longer judge Sabrina and her climax inducing activities. I guess to each their own. The poll also taught me that not everyone calls it “bottoming out”,.. shrug… you learn something new everyday.As for the two main characters they were ok. I didn’t really love or hate them. They could have used a bit more development overall but again the story is short so we don’t have a lot of room for that. I was a bit irritated that apparently when the shoe drops it’s up to Sabrina to fix it. Why is it always the woman who has to accept and fix things? I also found it a bit unbelievable that Sabrina and Dante were apparently not concerned with the office gossip that would go around when people discovered their relationship. Maybe they weren’t concerned because he was the big boss? Either way I would have thought this would have been discussed in some way or another during the story.As I mentioned there are three other books in this box set, but I think I will wait a while before I go back and read them. I find that unless I absolutely love a series if I read too many of them one right after another I tend to burn myself out.