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Synopsis

I lost her.

No, I didn’t lose her. I threw her away.

She was my best friend.

I was never supposed to fall in love with her.

I was careless.

She was heartbroken.

I was doing fine until she came back into my life and reminded me what love was supposed to feel like.

When it’s all said and done, she may not want to stay, but this time I’m going to do everything in my power to not let her go.

Review

‘We were just Mia and Jensen – flawed, crazy, and disastrously attracted to each other.’

Wow, just freaking wow.  I knew that I was going to really love this book because I SO enjoyed Kaleidoscope Hearts but I think that I liked Jensen and Mia’s story even more.  It was just so full of emotion and angst and regret. Paper Hearts is a fabulous second chance romance.

“If it’s already broken, why are you so afraid of it?”

“Because I don’t know if I want to walk on all that shattered glass again.”

So, there is a little novella before you read Paper Hearts, called Torn Hearts and it is free and I must insist that you read it before Paper Hearts.  It is just a short thirty minute read but it will give you some background on Mia and Jensen and what ultimately led to the end of their relationship the first time around.  It was a five star read for me and while you probably could get away without reading it, don’t.  Just trust me.  It is fantastic and it made me really fall in love with both Mia and Jensen and understand the decisions that they make in Paper Hearts.

So, this book was just a really hard read for me.  I constantly found myself tearing up while reading.  I would have to put the book down and come back because I often found myself a little overwhelmed with emotion and I think that I felt that way because it is obvious that Jensen and Mia have such love for each other but that simply had no bearing on why they had to be apart and the decisions they made.  It just was.  And that made me so sad because sometimes love just isn’t enough.  Oh God, it was hard.

“This doesn’t mean anything,”

“This means everything,”

But the story really it just fabulous.  The pacing of the story moved along quite nicely and I found myself turning the pages quickly waiting for these two to meet up again or text again or finally kiss again.  I felt so torn because both Jensen and Mia make such huge mistakes and I completely understand why.  They are mistakes that I very well would have made myself so I felt such empathy for both of them.  It is so difficult to read a story where you don’t really get to pick a side because you sympathize and love both characters so equally.  And the writing was just so damn incredible.  I really do need to go back and read the rest of Claire’s books because her writing style is phenomenal.  It is kind of poetic and lyrical and sexy.  I really adore it.

‘Maybe our souls really are scattered in the things we love, and we are all completely lost, but from the moment she looked at me, I felt like I’d been found.

I found that Jensen’s excerpts were some of my favorite parts of this book and I think that is because he is just so romantic and so very honest and blunt about his feelings.  It made me love him even more.  His bits were funny and refreshing and sweet.

As you can tell, this book totally rocked my world and I absolutely cannot wait for more from this author.  Her books are just so darn romantic in the very truest sense.  They are all angsty and swoony and gooey just how I like ’em!

“Real love stories never end.”

~Amie

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