From bestselling author Ella Fields comes a new standalone love triangle romance.My first love was my brother’s best friend. A lead singer in their band.A picture of rugged perfection. And a drunk soul mate who couldn’t commit.My second love was an arrogant baseball player.A player in every sense of the word.A smooth-talking, reliable best friend. And a chance at something beautiful and true.The …
And a chance at something beautiful and true.
The problem with having a first and second love?
That would be loving them at the same time.
My story isn’t some sexy triangle.
It’s exquisite agony.
Fate gave me two men to love,
but none of us knew which one I could keep.
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Wow! I am a huge Ella Fields fan and Serenading Heartbreak blew me away. I was honestly nervous with the idea of a love triangle, but in true Ella Fields fashion, she blew me away.
I don’t know how I survived the heartache and angst, but it absolutely was worth every panic attack and breathing-in-a-paper-bag moment. I fell so hard for every character and the writing was just phenomenal. I cried happy tears and sad tears and I didn’t want it to end.
This book has made it onto my top 2019 read list. Perfection between the pages!!!
About 70% thru this book, I cried and felt like if I could just scratch my skin off my body could expand and the feeling inside would fit. I can only say that this book is worth every emotion it pulls from you. It’s so well written and paints the pictures of their lives perfectly. I found the following to be so true.
“When things get hard, you don’t run away, and you don’t give up. You plant two feet into the ground, remember the roots you’ve grown, the life and love you’ve nurtured, and you fight.”
HOLY CRAP did I LOVE this angsty romance!!! My heart was completely captivated by the heart-wrenching storyline of this hard won happily ever after. Good Lord….I am breathless, worn out, frayed and tattered but so darn happy!!!! Oh… I don’t even know where to begin because I just want to scream over all these FEELINGS I’m overcome with!!!!
Full review to come. One of my favorites this year! Ella…I freaking love you!!!!
I have been agonizing over what to say about this nothing less than EPIC love triangle for days now and I am simply no closer to summarizing how amazing this story is. Gah….you guys, this book just pulverized my feelings. Yes, Ella has such a way with words that she has been known to cause my heart to darn near burst…but NOTHING, could have prepared me for her emotional take on this love triangle.
Stevie has been in love with her brother Hendrix’s best friend since they were all kids. She was convinced that Everett would be her chosen person to journey through life with. As we all know, life is never easy. People are damaged and poor Everett carried some seriously heavy luggage. He wanted to be the man that Stevie deserved, but life had a way of altering even the best of intentions.
Stevie is given a second chance for her much desired happily ever after, but this time it’s with a charming baseball player named Aiden that her beautiful romantic heart just never saw coming.
Aiden is a force to be reckoned with and he adores Stevie, but he is not without baggage of his own.
Desperate to be someone’s first priority, their heart’s pure desire, and one true love, Stevie faces quite a tough choice between these two very different men. Does she give up on her childhood dreams of a life spent in Everett’s arms and allow her womanly heart to run the bases of life with Aiden? When you have the love of two men, do you listen to your head or your heart in choosing forever’s partner?
OH. MY. GOSH….the gut-punching twists and turns this story will take. *standing ovation*
Stevie is such a fantastic character; Ella gives AH-MAZING heroines! They are ball-busting women full of backbone, gumption, courage, and possess an incredible sense of compassion and forgiveness within them. I adore them all, but Stevie….gah, my heart just ached for her. What a position she found herself in!
Believe me when I tell you, this is an ANGSTY read. I freaking LOVED it!!!! Everett and Aiden are gonna make you curse like a sailor, throw your Kindles across the room, hit your Panic buttons, and lose your ever-lovin’ minds waiting for the INCREDIBLE ending that awaits. This is re-read worthy stuff here ladies!
AND also, it’s…HOT, HOT, HOT! Not that any of you read books for that reason…LOL!
If you love to scream at fictional characters as you read….I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you meet this dynamic trio.
The story begins with siblings Hendrix and his little sister Stevie who befriend Everett, the troubled boy who lives across the street. As the years go by Everett becomes a member of their family, being band mates with Hendrix and a boy who Stevie crushes on. Everett seems to be destined for a musical career, his haunting lyrics drawing from his bitter life experiences and a deeper love for Stevie. She comes to symbolize his ‘home’ away from his abusive home, but eventually it is not to enough to stop his path of destruction as he leaves with her brother and his band to travel. Thus he falls into pitfalls of a traveling musician (drinking, drugs, sex). I was extremely frustrated with Everett for just leaving and not staying in contact with Stevie or atleast telling her to move on and love someone else.
Stevie does try to move on with her life but it is difficult. Her heart breaking (and hardening) each time Everett comes and goes. He interferes in her life, especially when she is in a relationship with a man(Aiden) that has promise. When it came down to it Stevie grew from the events in her life and she came to realize that whatever choice she made, things would not be easy. Does she fall for the man whom she fell madly in love with as a teenager or the man who became the band aid in her pained life.
I whole hardheartedly give Serenading Heartbreak 5 stars!!! Ella Fields allows the reader to experience the many sides of a messy, emotionally disastrous relationship. The ones that keep getting uglier and uglier where you want to jump in yourself and stop the heartache but must sit back and allow Ms. Fields to take you places where you do not want to go. Beautiful!
I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to write this review. How do I clearly state my feeling for this book. There aren’t enough words to adequately express how good this story was. Exquisite, heartbreaking, emotional, gripping….and I can go on. Serenading Heartbreak consumed me from the start and I could not put it down. I was hooked right until the end. This breathtaking story was well-crafted and engrossing and took me on an intense emotional roller-coaster ride. It gave me all the feels and then some more and I still can’t stop thinking about it.
I loved these characters, every single one of them, at times some more than others. Stevie and her two guys had my full attention and it amazes me how the author made me love them so much. I loved the secondary characters who managed to add so much more to the story in their own way. They all provided such vital support to the main characters.
This page-turner was full of angst, pain, heartache, hope and love. With twists and turns around every corner you won’t know what to expect and you won”t be able to guess how it will all end. Serenading Heartbreak was a phenomenal read and worthy of more than a 5 star status. I absolutely loved it and would highly recommend it to all lovers of angsty NA romance.
The first time he wandered home with her older brother, Stevie fell hard the rough and tough looking bad boy from across the street, Everett Taylor however didn’t seem to find her as amusing. But that didn’t stop her from sneaking glances every time he stopped by, or came to practice with her brother and their band. Eventually the sexy glances were returned, and with a little urging on her part, they gave into the sparks bouncing around between them. But between bad timing, past demons, his music career and phobia of commitment the two of them never had the chance to have a fair shot at a relationship.
So Stevie moved on… with a uber sexy, smooth talking baseball player named Aiden Prince who turned her world upside down and completely stole her heart. She never thought it would be possible to find that bone deep kind of love twice, but once she did she didn’t want to let go of it.
But just as her blissful new fairy tale romance gets underway her past comes back to claim her heart too!
Every once in a while you come across a story you JUST know is going to completely break you, but you have to read it anyway, cause you know it will be well worth the heartbreak… well, Serenading Heartbreak is THAT kind of read. With it’s heart-penetrating words, angst-laden story line, and troubled, yet very lovable, characters this one is a can’t miss story… once your eyes hit the words you won’t be able to put it down. Love triangles are my absolute favorite trope and I’ve got to say this one just stole the top seat as my favorite… the words, the characters, the gut-wrenching story line… gosh just everything about it was perfect! Nobody does romance and angst quite like Ms. Fields, for me her stories are incomparable, they always manage to wreck my heart in the best possible way and leave me with an euphoric emotional high! Highly recommend!!
I requested and advanced copy of this title from the publisher, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest opinion.