Review: Emotional in the best way...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
Only Her Heart is the second book in The Jaded Hearts series. I read the first book Jaded Hearts when it was first released and I couldn’t put it down. The love triangle of Jade Spencer, Julian Garza and John Benson was so intense that you had to choose a side. Team John or Team Julian? I am boastfully Team John all the way.Only Her Heart takes us past the love triangle and into the heart, mind, body, and actions of Jade Spencer as a young woman trapped between her life in New York and Miami. This is truly her story - who she is as a person; where she has come from and where she is going. Jade Spencer learned a lot whether she wanted to or not in Jaded Hearts, and in this book she has to apply all those lessons into seeking the best future for herself. She is tasked with several different questions – why was she attacked and who attacked her, why did her mother abandon her, and who should she give her heart to?While on the journey to answering the important questions in her life, Jade takes the reader through an emotional rollercoaster. The traumatic experience of being attacked and beaten has made her weary of everyone around her, even her family. Everyone seems to step in and offer advice and guidance, but Jade must put on her “big girl panties” as she says and figure things out on her own terms.There were so many good parts about this book that I cannot choose my ultimate favorite. Jade having fun in the club, letting loose of her inhibitions, and having fun with her girls in Miami was one of the lighter moments in the book. However, I must say that I was really into the two different times that I cried while reading the story. I can’t state which scenes made me do this because it would reveal a few spoilers, but yes I did shed some tears.This writer really knows what she’s doing. She taps into the story so well that any reader - new adult, male, woman, race, older adult – can relate to this tale of being in love with more than one and realizing that you must love yourself before you can give yourself to another. Life isn’t perfect. People aren’t perfect. Relationships are definitely not perfect and this book showcases this fact in the most perfect way.Finally, I want to say that I know the fans of this series are really connected to the debate of which man Jade should choose, but in Only Her Heart if you focus solely on this fact you will be missing out on one of the best reads of romance and emotional drama of your life. Keep pushing Olivia Linden.