Title: Hearts and Flowers

Author: A. M. Brooks

Page count: 319

Published: August 21, 2019

Publisher: The NextStepPR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  3.5 /5

Summary:

Nora
He broke me. 
He gave me everything I never knew I wanted then in one moment destroyed all my happiness.
Now I’m back in Araminta to finish senior year before I move on and leave this town full of fake and corrupted people behind. 
I don’t expect him to chase me. To change the game. He wants my heart but it’s destroyed. Even as we fight back against his enemies who want to ruin his name, he puts me above all else. 
He wants to protect me. Fix me. Claim me. Too bad I’m not the same girl I was. I can’t forgive him….

Darrian 
I’m sober.
So fuckin sober.
I’m broken and bruised but the only pain I feel is watching her and knowing I can’t have her. Danger lurks around us. My enemies are growing in numbers. I need to keep her safe and untouched by the chaos I created. I will destroy the walls around her heart and prove to both of us that I am the man she wanted me to be. She wants to breeze in and fade out…not this time. She’s back and she will be mine. I can’t live without her. 

My Thoughts:

This is the conclusion to the first book Hearts and Bruises. I’m a sucker for second chance romances.

I did have some issues with the first one you can check out my review here

I was able to read this book in one sitting because I wanted to know what was going to happen considering what happened in the last one. Darrian I didn’t like in the first one, in this one he grew up a lot an I loved reading his growth. Rehab helped him a lot, I was hoping he would change and he did for the better.

The back and forth that happened with Darrian and Nora I think was necessary because of the way he treated her in book one. When there together in this one it has a different feel. It wasn’t as “edgy”.

This book was about forgiveness and we were able to get and experience that with Nora.