Review: Great beginning to this series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
I don’t know why I didn’t realize that Enchanted Heart was YA.  I don’t read a lot of YA but every once in awhile one draws me in.  That happened with Enchanted Heart.The book starts with (non-rule breaking) Cassie breaking probably the most serious rule of her life (though she doesn’t know it) by stepping into Vegas with her friends.  They have a fun night planned to celebrate the New Year (also Cassie’s birthday) and then she will slip off back home with no one being any wiser to where she went.Oops.That one decision sets off a chain of events that will completely change Cassie’s life and so the story goes.I remember starting the book, realizing it was a YA, and by 6% feeling a little confused, I thought I will give it a bit more before I decide this isn’t for me.  I remember looking down and seeing 8% and kept reading. The next time I checked I was over 50% done with the book.It took off fast for me around the 8% mark and just kept going.  It was action packed, full of things that kept me thinking and questioning, and minus one little break, I didn’t stop reading until I finished the book.  The break was when I went up to the dance studio to have lunch with my daughter, I figured I could keep reading while she finished the last couple of hours of competition try outs.  Alas, there were other moms who wanted to chat, so I sat there with one hand on my iPad wishing that I could open it up and keep reading.  As soon as I got home, the husband took the kids out and about and I climbed into to bed to finish Cassie’s story.I really really enjoyed it.There were a few moments, especially towards the end where I still was confused. Things happened so fast that I caught myself going back and rereading, wondering how did they just get from point A to point B.  I still don’t understand a few things but I am hoping as I read the rest of the series that I will have some aha moments as I think back to this book.Loved the characters, Cassie is a sweet kid who is stronger than she ever knew, AJ is great hero with tons of mystery shrouding him, and I really want to dig deeper into AJ, Olivia, and Lucas’s past and see what happened in their history.  Then there is Gia, who we met a little in Enchanted Heart, she definitely is going to have a role coming up in a future book.I definitely will be picking up the rest of The Game Of Hearts series.  I want to see where this is going.Thank you so much for my copy of Enchanted Heart!