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aklovekorn's review
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Cursing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy
amateur_bookworm's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
My summary:
Cade Eaton has been busy taking care of everyone else throughout his entire life. After his mom died when he was only 8, he stepped up to help his dad and younger brothers and sister. Then, when his dad retired, he took over running their ranch. And he’s raised his five year old son, Luke, entirely on his own ever since his piece of shit ex left them both behind. Trying to find a nanny for the summer is next to impossible—especially in a small town where he’s the most eligible bachelor, much to the chagrin of the broody and grumpy Cade. When Cade’s brother’s fiancée suggests her best friend, Willa Grant, Cade immediately refuses. But once the hurricane that is Willa rolls into town, it doesn’t take long at all for Luke to be enraptured by the fun and fiery Willa, and soon Cade is firmly under her spell too.
My thoughts:
I’m not sure there are very many romance books I have loved as thoroughly as I love Heartless by Elsie Silver. From the first page to the last, I could not put this down and read it in about a day (a workday, no less—who needs sleep with books this good around?!).
I read Wild Love before I started the Chestnut Springs series so I already had a glimpse of what’s going to happen and I. Couldn’t. Wait. And it did not disappoint in any way.
The single dad trope has never been my favorite but, wow, it is now! Throw in the hot and grumpy cowboy with the fiery and unpredictable nanny and the most adorable kid on the planet and then I am a goner. Add in the small town and ranch setting and then it can’t get any more perfect.
This book is absolutely fucking hilarious. And hot. I cannot love Elsie Silver’s writing style more if I tried. If I were to ever write a book (which is highly improbable) I hope it would turn out half as good as this. I cannot wait to finish the Chestnut Springs series but I also don’t ever want it to end either. Luckily I have three more books to go.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Abandonment
kaylee_kale's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death of parent, Infidelity, and Abandonment
Minor: Miscarriage and Injury/Injury detail
dlsmk's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Medical content, Sexual content, Vomit, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy
Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent
karlapardo's review
emotional
funny
lighthearted
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
OMG!!! I LOVE this book. This is my favorite out of the whole series. Every single aspect is just *chef's kiss*. DADDY CADEEEEE! I love this man! I really thought no one would pass Rhett Eaton but hot damn, Cade had to come and just take Rhett's spot. I was so surprised with this man if I am being honest. The words that this man spoke, I am obsessed. As the story goes on the more I like him, the fact that he is able to talk about his past and his insecurities just made it way better. The love that he has for Luke is just incomparable to anything else, this man would do anything and everything for his boy and I find that so special. Luke's character was just so special, he was literally the cherry on top of the book, the book was so good and he made it so much better. Willa..... WILLA! I freaking love this woman! She is a FIRECRAKER! And I couldn't love her more. She is just so special and her personality brings so much to the book. She cares so deeply for those she loves and it shows. Her relationship with Luke is just absolutely beautiful and it made my heart melt every single time. NOW! Cade and Willa's relationship is just *cheff's kiss* *swoon* I just don't have words. They are perfect for each other. WIlla brings so much light and Cade is the calm of the Hurricane. I just couldn't get enough of this couple. The banter! The SPICE! They just love each other so much and all they want is for each other and Luke to be happy. They are just polar opposites and they complement each other. Love love love. I don't know what else I can say.
Memorable Quotes
Memorable Quotes
- “And I realize in that moment maybe I am heartless after all, because the beautiful girl with the copper hair grinning back at me right now is the one who stole it.”
- “Life lesson, shithead. Careful who you pick a fight with. Someone insane might love him.”
- “I don’t care. Don’t you get it? I’m in love with you, Willa. Prickly legs, random carrots in your purse
, pregnant, not pregnant. I want you.” - “Keep talking like that and I’m going to fuck the filth right out of your pretty mouth.”
- “Cade is the embodiment of actions speaking louder than words. "
- “Do you think . . .” He peers back up at me now. “Do you think it would be okay if I called you mom too?”
- “Thank you. Thank you for being the first person in my life to put me first, to give me options. I’m not sure I deserve that gift, but I know that I’ll never forget it for as long as I live.”
- “Every part of me wants to go after her, but sometimes loving someone means giving them the space they want. The space they need. For a little while, at least.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Vomit, and Sexual content
Moderate: Infidelity, Abandonment, and Death of parent
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Miscarriage
knl0819's review
0.75
I want to preface this review by saying that this is my second ever single dad romance. I actually read my first one immediately before reading this book. It was learn your lesson by Kandi Steiner and let me tell you it was 10x better than this book. The bones of the two books are practically the same. Both of them are grumpy dad X sunshine live-in Nanny. I started this book excited because I really enjoyed Rhett and Summers‘s book. Unfortunately I did not have a good time and began skimming around 60%. I spoiled the ending for myself on Goodreads and officially DNF at 70%.
From the beginning, I thought Willa was dramatic, but she seemed like a cool girl. However, her biggest downfall for me was cussing around a child. I’m all for speaking to kids like they’re adults and not talking to them like idiots however, to be using swear words around a child under the age of like 12 boggles my mind, especially a kid that isn’t yours.
Cade understandably had a lot of responsibilities and sort of came off a bit rude. I don’t blame him for feeling some type of way towards Willa after he picked up her underwear at a coffee shop and she told him to keep it. I enjoyed Luke as a kiddo and especially Luke and Willa’s relationship. I could see how watching Willa interact with Luke while beginning to see her carefree personality could be a catalyst to Cade’s feelings. But I don’t understand how in two months he was out of control with his attraction to her. I think it was a combination of him being celibate for three years and meeting someone who he was genuinely into. But his inner monologue was insane. I thought I was back reading the off-campus series with a bunch of 20 some things college boys obsessing over some other 20 something college girl. The horned up monologue I can usually move past fairly easily. What I cannot get past are his discussions of Willa’s complexion and his incessant need to remind us that she is 13 years younger than him.
If he wasn’t talking about how young she was, he was talking about how obsessed he was with her paleness. Now 13 years is an age gap I do recognize that but it’s not weird because she’s 25. He was behaving as if she was 18 or freshly out of college or Like he had known her since she was younger. But to meet her at 25 he needs to stop acting like she’s jailbait to him like it’s so creepy. There is an exact scene where cade is says that feeling her breasts is a reminder of how young she is, but he doesn’t let his mind wander there. Like wtf!
My biggest issue is all of these comments about Willa‘s skin complexion. I’m a brown skin, black woman and I have no issues with reading about white characters from white authors. What I do have a problem with is this incessant need to tell us over and over again how pale Willa is. I’ve read a plethora of books and I know that at some point in the book, their skin color, hue, or complexion will be described in someway in the book. I don’t have an issue with that. There were probably over six mentions of Willa’s complexion with the terms milky, creamy, or pale. I’m starting to look at the character sideways and slightly the author sideways. It was starting to give he a racist, and he is into this purified aryan beauty that she had. Honestly, when I saw the term creamy skin for what I felt like was the thousandth time, that was really what told me it’s time to put the book down and give up. Not to mention the fact that I find out that in two months she gets pregnant with this kid and then they get engaged. I know there’s an accident pregnancy book coming, but this was not the book that I was told is accidental pregnancy so the fact that this was a jump scare trope I feel lied to.
For a while, I was like if Willa knew how cade was talking about her skin and weirdly obsessed with her body in this way I felt like she would never be with him, and she would drop him quickly. But honestly, their whole relationship kind of gives white feminism with the racist boyfriend that , she gives a pass.
I am actually excited for the next book and then the pregnancy book because we know that she’s pregnant OK and I also am wanting a reason to not hate winter so because from Summers book she’s a horrible person.
Currently summer is the top girl Willa is at the bottom and the other three girls are in the middle with winter one step above Willa. For the guys, Katie is at the bottom I fear.
From the beginning, I thought Willa was dramatic, but she seemed like a cool girl. However, her biggest downfall for me was cussing around a child. I’m all for speaking to kids like they’re adults and not talking to them like idiots however, to be using swear words around a child under the age of like 12 boggles my mind, especially a kid that isn’t yours.
Cade understandably had a lot of responsibilities and sort of came off a bit rude. I don’t blame him for feeling some type of way towards Willa after he picked up her underwear at a coffee shop and she told him to keep it. I enjoyed Luke as a kiddo and especially Luke and Willa’s relationship. I could see how watching Willa interact with Luke while beginning to see her carefree personality could be a catalyst to Cade’s feelings. But I don’t understand how in two months he was out of control with his attraction to her. I think it was a combination of him being celibate for three years and meeting someone who he was genuinely into. But his inner monologue was insane. I thought I was back reading the off-campus series with a bunch of 20 some things college boys obsessing over some other 20 something college girl. The horned up monologue I can usually move past fairly easily. What I cannot get past are his discussions of Willa’s complexion and his incessant need to remind us that she is 13 years younger than him.
If he wasn’t talking about how young she was, he was talking about how obsessed he was with her paleness. Now 13 years is an age gap I do recognize that but it’s not weird because she’s 25. He was behaving as if she was 18 or freshly out of college or Like he had known her since she was younger. But to meet her at 25 he needs to stop acting like she’s jailbait to him like it’s so creepy. There is an exact scene where cade is says that feeling her breasts is a reminder of how young she is, but he doesn’t let his mind wander there. Like wtf!
My biggest issue is all of these comments about Willa‘s skin complexion. I’m a brown skin, black woman and I have no issues with reading about white characters from white authors. What I do have a problem with is this incessant need to tell us over and over again how pale Willa is. I’ve read a plethora of books and I know that at some point in the book, their skin color, hue, or complexion will be described in someway in the book. I don’t have an issue with that. There were probably over six mentions of Willa’s complexion with the terms milky, creamy, or pale. I’m starting to look at the character sideways and slightly the author sideways. It was starting to give he a racist, and he is into this purified aryan beauty that she had. Honestly, when I saw the term creamy skin for what I felt like was the thousandth time, that was really what told me it’s time to put the book down and give up. Not to mention the fact that I find out that in two months she gets pregnant with this kid and then they get engaged. I know there’s an accident pregnancy book coming, but this was not the book that I was told is accidental pregnancy so the fact that this was a jump scare trope I feel lied to.
For a while, I was like if Willa knew how cade was talking about her skin and weirdly obsessed with her body in this way I felt like she would never be with him, and she would drop him quickly. But honestly, their whole relationship kind of gives white feminism with the racist boyfriend that , she gives a pass.
I am actually excited for the next book and then the pregnancy book because we know that she’s pregnant OK and I also am wanting a reason to not hate winter so because from Summers book she’s a horrible person.
Currently summer is the top girl Willa is at the bottom and the other three girls are in the middle with winter one step above Willa. For the guys, Katie is at the bottom I fear.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Racism
MMC makes the age gap a bigger deal than it needs to be!traceyanderson's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Cursing, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Infidelity
thatgirlgeorgia's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Cursing
em_daydreaming's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Vomit
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
jasmins_reads's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Abandonment and Vomit