Wicked Heart by Leisa Raven
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Publish date: May 3rd 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Purchase: Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU – Pan Macmillian
Liam Quinn is talented, gorgeous, and one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
He’s also only man Elissa Holt has ever truly loved.
After being out of her life for six years, he and his gorgeous fiancé are set to star in the new Broadway show Elissa is stage managing. Both Elissa and Liam try to ignore the connection they both still feel, but when late night rehearsals bring them together, the line between what is and what could have been get blurred.
Elissa knows that falling for Liam again would be a tragedy in the making, but as any good romantic will tell you, love doesn’t always follow the script.
Wicked Heart:
I received an e-arc of Wicked Heart by Leisa Raven via Pan Macmillan in conjunction with the Wicked Heart Blog Tour in exchange for an honest review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
I have a lot of thoughts about this book, some are bad and same are good, but overall I don’t really know how I feel about Wicked Heart. This is the third book by Leisa Rayven that I have read, I liked the previous two which are both from this series, but I did love them, the problems that I had with them, showed up again in this one.
Wicked Heart follows protagonist, Elissa 4 years after her heart was torn apart. She is a stage manager of a new show and, you guessed it, the person that broke her heart is playing the lead – with his fiancé playing the romantic interest. Elissa now has to deal with trying to be professional and keep her feelings at bay, but it’s just not that easy.
Wicked Heart like the others in the series includes flashbacks, and like her previous novels I wasn’t the biggest fan of them. I would have loved the flashbacks in Wicked Heart if the romance didn’t move like lightning.
Through the main part of the novel, the romance was good. It was steady and not bam; we are in love. However, when Elissa and Liam first meet, it was way too instalove for me.
If you have read Leisa Rayven’s other novels in this series, you would know that Elissa is Ethan’s sister and we kind of have an idea of who she is from the other books, but in Wicked Heart we really get who she is.
I actually quite liked Elissa as a protagonist, she was easy to get along with and wasn’t whiny however, I did want to knock her about at times regarding her feelings for Liam.
Now Liam, I wasn’t the biggest fan of his. For the most part, I was enjoying him, but then he did things and I just questioned why? Why would he do this? We do find out things throughout the novel to answer most of these, however the reasons behind some of the things weren’t an excuse. I also found that at times he was quite possessive and that just ticks me off.
I really enjoyed the setting of Wicked Heart. I really like the atmosphere of the book that was created because of it being set mainly in a theatre. It’s different from other books and its fun. We get to see more of what happens backstage in Wicked Heart and it was quite intriguing.
I loved the friendship between Elissa and Josh – like can I have this friendship. The banter, the teasing, the way they are always there for each other. It made my heart swell, it was beautiful to see a female/male friendship that wasn’t turned into a romance.
Another thing that I liked about Wicked Heart was the writing. It was easy to read, fun and kept me reading. However, sometimes I didn’t like all the pop cultural references, it just took away from the book.
Overall, I enjoyed Wicked Heart by Leisa Rayven. It was a fun, quick read that was full of romance, banter, laughs and more. Nevertheless, it did have its faults, the romance did move a little fast for me, Liam wasn’t by favourite and I just wanted more, but on a whole it was a fun book.
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