I love you; I loathe youJackson Thorn was my best friend and worst enemy, but that didn’t stop me from wanting him.From first words to high school halls, our childhood years braided a bond that wove in a direction neither of us could predict or outgrow.Forbidden became a word we ignored.It wasn’t that we didn’t care.It was that we cared too much. We had it all planned out.We thought we could make …
We had it all planned out.
We thought we could make it.
We thought we’d been careful.
But all we managed to do was prolong the inevitable.
Our destruction.
Hearts and Thorns is a standalone full length new adult novel from bestselling author, Ella Fields.
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I finished reading Hearts and Thorns about an hour ago and I’m still just sitting here in awe. This story is phenomenal, to say the least. Willa and Jackson are everything I dreamt they would be and more. Absolutely my favorite couple in the Magnolia Cove series!
Willa and Jackson have been around each other since infancy, when her mom and his dad had a meet cute at the doctor’s office. One life is surrounded by the other, memories connecting them in their shared past. They exist in the same orbit, one never straying too far from the other. But as they grow, so do their feelings for each other and they move into a forbidden, taboo realm. Everything is stacked up against these two, but they don’t care. They fight and fight because they know their love is worth it.
But sometimes, the fight takes it out of you. The wind in your sails is gone and you’re left wandering, lost at sea.
The road that Willa and Jackson are on is very long, full of intense emotions and heartache that jumps right through the pages and into your own body. Their grief is palpable, but so is their happiness and joy, the tenderness shared between their two hearts.
Ella Fields has, once again, played my heartstrings like a professional, pulling on the strings of hope, anger, sadness, laughter, and happiness in perfect harmony. Definitely a top contender in her entire catalogue, she’s knocked this one out of the park. Or really, out of the cove.
I devoured this story, and so will you. There’s simply no way you couldn’t. Willa and Jackson pull you right in and you won’t come up for air until you’ve read the last page. I love this story, and I love Ella Fields. I can’t imagine not having either in my life.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
My tears hasn’t dry. My heart still hurt in the most wonderful ways a book can do. Bravo for Ella Fields for every book she write is a journes it self of honing experience making her readers fall in love, so frustrated to the point one wanna throw her phone away for what happened in the story but couldn’t cause then she can’t read to finish the story. And yes, that she is me.
After the agonizing pain, Ms. Field seems to have a field day of more abusing her readers by pulling all the angst forbidden love step bro-sis card trick in the most cruelest way.
She broke my heart at the end of part one of this book.
I cried my snot out.
My heart hurt like no body business.
I close this book and turn to City Island games just to get my head clear.
But nope. Part two still slay me.
I fall in love with Jackson and Willa even in the previous books in this series.
My heart broke when their heart broke for “… A wrong so wrong that it couldn’t be anything other than just right.”
I’m lusting over their steamy scenes.
I cried some more for, “…A goodbye that never should’ve been a hello.”
Got frustrated for how things turn for these two.
But in the end, with snot still lingering, my eyes all puffy, an hour before my work time, my heart swell of happiness. For once again, love with it all unperfectness, wins!
Hearts and Thorns is undoubtedly the best story by Ella Fields till date. Breathtaking. Overwhelming. Shredding your soul, breaking your heart and making you smile through tears kind of perfect. The words were pure poetry and the feels were worth a thousand stars.
Willa and Jackson’s story is angsty with the hint of forbidden. They are technically stepsiblings. Not related by blood. But that does not make things easy or acceptable. And Ella Fields will take you through heaven and hell as they navigate every kind of torturing, heartbreaking, swoonworthy, intense and epic emotions possible. I am emotionally exhausted. Because you just cannot get over this kind of unique stories. Willa and Jackson had so many external forces working against them that they destroyed their own relationship again and again. But they still loved each other behind and beyond every mistake. The distance in time and place did nothing to dull their feelings. Not new cities. Not new friends. Not new partners. Nothing. Ella Fields did not hold back and has written some unbelievable terrifying moments in this story. Those are branded in my heart forever.
You need to read this story with a completely open mind. Willa and Jackson are going to do and say things when they are hurt. And trust me it was completely understandable. That is the magic of this story. I felt this intimate and instant connection with their feelings. Willa has been through so much because of their almost impossible love story. My heart just cannot stand how much this girl suffered. She was lonely, miserable, broken, defeated and sad but she still worked hard to get herself back and make her dreams come true. Jackson is a different stoty. He is really intense and can lash out while cornered. I wanted to slap some senses into him so many times. He is an enigma and an intriguing character. He is super protective of Willa but this same person can turn into a stubborn, arrogant and almost cruel. Their chemistry is so beautiful and mesmerizing. And their story is written in stars. There is no right and wrong in love. But going through the darkest and painful feelings cannot be easy. And as a reader you will feel it deep in your bones.
Hearts and Thorns by Ella Fields is not an easy or flawless love story. Willa and Jackson is messed up, chaotic, explosive and purest love. The words claimed me completely. This is and will stay one of the best romance of 2020.
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Ok. It’s official.
Ella Fields broke me with this book.
“Need and love were a force we couldn’t contend with and forever lost the battle to.”
I was sobbing at 52% and was a freaking waterfall by the end of the book.
I can’t even begin to explain how much I loved this book.
Yes, it made me cry.
But it also made me smile, laugh, sigh, swoon and curse the name Ella Fields (I may have also messaged her half way through the book telling her I hated her and sent a photo of my actual tears, but… yeah) anyway…. it was fucking amazing.
Peggy and Dash were holding strong as my favourites but Willa and Jackson blew them out of the water. I’m still trying to recover 3 days later…. epic freaking book hangover.
Thank you, Ella for your angst ridden, tear inducing masterpiece. My heart hurts, but it was so worth it.