Breslin—I was in love with Asher Holden the moment I saw him…and I knew nothing would ever be the same. Then he hurt me. He wrecked me. He ruined me. I spent three years putting myself together—fixing what he broke.I never thought I’d see him again after that day. I was counting on it. Little did I know—life had other plans…and things were going to become a lot more complicated. Asher—I … more complicated.
Asher—I finally know who I am. I own it, I embrace it…I’m no longer afraid.
I live my life with no regrets now, because I’ve learned my lesson—the hard way.
I thought I had it all figured out.
But then my past collides with my present…and things become complicated.
Turns out I don’t really know myself after all.
Landon— My life was all mapped out.
I knew exactly what direction I was heading in—I didn’t have time for any roadblocks or obstacles.
Then I meet her.
And him.
Now, my heart is split right down the middle.
She controls the rhythm. He controls the melody.
Complicated doesn’t even begin to cover it…and there’s only one way this can end.
Warning: This story is for mature readers only. This duet contains language and explicit content featuring m/f, m/m, m/f/m.
Trigger Warning:
This story is strange and unconventional. It’s everything you hate. That’s the only warning I can offer you.
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This was a fantastic read. It’s all kinds of hot n steamy the story just sucks you right in.
I couldn’t put this one down. I think Ashley did a fantastic job keeping us on the edge of our seats. I wanted to scream at times it’s definitely has the right title because complicated is bloody right.
Breslin is a girl who was madly in love with her boyfriend Asher they were the perfect couple until he did something unforgivable and her world shattered.
Now she’s moved on and has a new boyfriend Landon the sweet guy who loves music.
The thing is Breslin can’t commit fully to Landon because she hasn’t gotten over the love of her life.
These three people’s lives are about to get complicated in ways you can’t imagine.
That ending OMFG!!!! I swear I nearly passed out from the stress of it all.
It was like peeking through your fingers at a horror film where the H is about to be killed. You know it’s going to happen and you can’t stop it.
That was this ending. My heart was in my mouth. I bloody loved it. What a way to end with a bang.
I’m desperate for book 2 now.
This is the first book I have read by author Ashley Jade and it won’t be my last.
This book was amazing and i loved everything about it. It has an awesome storyline and is very well written.
I loved the characters Asher, Breslin, and Landon! I can’t wait for book 2 to see what happens next.
OMG this book really twist and turn my stomach… From the beginning, 3 people with different emotion bound into a triangle coaster.. Its angst… painful.. hurt.. sad..betrayal..secret.. sexual tension..sassy mouth…my vocab just went south!
Asher is a rising Quarterback who thought football was his life… his way to supress his adrenaline…his way to prove that its a dream…
Bre never thought that someone would care for her until Asher.. the Prince charming would come and rescue her.. made her fallen until the secret broken her heart to million pieces…
Landon a simple and talented man with sexy voice and soul… His attraction to Asher and love for Bre made it so much complicated to breath.. confuse to move forward.. couldnt deny the feeling between 2 people..
The book will tear you apart..its breaking my heart to see people struggling to show how much they care.. Love can made you happy.. crazy in the same time.. somersault emotion.. it made you crave for more… like whats next on and on.. its sexy..lots of sexual tension to made your toes curled up.. I want that kind of love despite its hurtful and possibly breaking my heart..
Can these 3 soul find their peace? Only time would tell… I need more!
I seriously enjoyed book 1 of the Complicated Hearts Duet. Talk about flawed characters whom I loved. Asher and Breslin were great together before it all went to hell. Him struggling with his sexuality and his growing friendship with Landon were my highlights of this book. Damn how I love Landon that sexy musician slash nerd. How he also had to face his growing attraction to Asher was wonderfully written. His relationship with Breslin was great too. I have no idea how it will all go down in the sequel when the truth comes out between the three of them.
Book 1 lays the perfection foundation for this story and these complicated relationships. This book was an awesome surprise.
Absolutely loved everything about this book! Loved the twists and turns as well as the inner conflicts and love triangle!!!
My words cannot do this story justice.
I have fallen in love with three different people over the last two days. This author has created this world that sucks you in and drains you dry. In a good way, I promise. Each character has this unique story to tell and you get lost in the words that are the most effed up, and yet totally beautiful love triangle. Asher, Landon and Breslin are three totally different people with good hearts, good intentions and a longing (that maybe they don’t realize yet) for something a little more than “conventional.”
I first fell in love with this author’s writing style after reading Complicated Parts 1 – which takes place after the Complicated Hearts Duet. I honestly didn’t think she could top that book for me. But yet here I sit, completely lost in another world … again. A world full of wrong doings and mistakes and yet so much love to be shared. I cannot wait to see where this love triangle takes me.
Breslin Rae and Asher Holden have the perfect teenage romance. He loves her unlike anyone has ever. But he has a secret that tears them apart. After three years, Landon shows up. Landon is sweet, sexy, and very in love with Breslin. I have never read an Ashley Jade novel before, But she just found a new fan! I read some of the reviews and the main thing I see it’s a cliffhanger. People good gravy, nobody is coming to your job and telling you how to do it are they? NO so why are you telling a Author how to write her book. you don’t like it move on.
This is the first book I’ve read by this author and what an emotional roller coaster ride it was. I wasn’t sure at first that I was going to like the book. It took me until about halfway to become fully invested in the characters and story.
Breslin and Asher had loved each other deeply but blackmail and confusing feelings on Asher’s part, lead to them breaking up. Both devastated and destroyed by it, the book jumps to three years later and now Landon joins the story.
He loves Breslin but although she has feelings for him, she’s reluctant to fully let herself go and to feel because Asher broke her so badly. She goes off for three weeks and Landon gets a new student to tutor.
Enter Asher. I could say so much about this story but I really don’t want to be the one who spoils it for others.
It does end on a cliffhanger but I saw it coming so it was ok. It’s like watching the inevitable. I knew where the author was heading with the story and now that I’m done, I wait eagerly for the next book in the series.
I should just put out there that this isn’t for everyone, it is MMF that doesn’t bother me I have darker and kinker stuff . One of my favorite books is a MM Love is Love. What I absolutely loved about this read was it was all the bout the characters and how they felt toward on another gender was not important. It was freeing to read about these about these Landon and Asher completely and slowly fall for each other but never being able to completely stop having feeling for some one else.Breslin who can not get over her High school sweetheart and I so know exactly what she feels when you not only love someone but put them up on a pedestal , and then get betrayed it shatters your soul along with your heart. Just read this book about a Complicated Relationship that is unforgettable. Please let poor Breslin be okay. FYI cliffhanger is Crazy..
WOW! Someone needs to smack me upside the head for just reading this now.
It was gripping. Painful to read, absolutely heartbreaking to witness right from the beginning.
I first learned of Author Ashley Jade through coming across Blame It on the Pain and Blame It on the Shame series (last year) and I was hooked. Her words make you think, see, feel, hurt, and root and both series have been amazing. I always knew this book would break my heart and have had it on my TBR pile for a while but never actually built the nerve to read it. Which, I now regret.
Complicated Hearts (book 1) is seriously a complicated story. It is knee-deep in conflict, with lots of pain and anxiety, but what I love most is that it makes you FEEL.
Breslin, Asher and Landon are three characters I have loved through this book. They all each have majorly contributed in this tangled web.
“He was my fixation, my neurosis…and ultimately, my demise.”
So, can we start with I seriously did not see that one coming (the conflict that started it all).
I knew all three paths would cross, I just never imagined it would be in the way that it played out.
This story is a first for me. I’ve never read anything like it (and I’ve been reading since 5th grade) but the originality of this one cannot be topped. It made me feel everything, every emotion was bare, every thought open, every struggle can be seen. I hurt for all three characters and the changes they are going through.
Though this ends on a cliff, I’m definitely delving into the next one.
I love books that make you think, feel, hurt, angry, and ache all at once. Those books that make you keep thinking about it, even when you are supposed to be working. I love it when the author makes you think and think hard. This book is all of that and more. Asher, Breslin, and Landon’s story is unlike any other. Theirs is a tangled web of complicated lies and blackmail that lead to even more pain and destruction.
They will make you FEEL.
Is this story for everyone? No.
Did I like it? I loved it.
Will I recommend it? Hell yes! This book deserves all the praise and more for everything in it. It is original, touching, full of emotions and makes you think and question. I loved it.
It’s angsty, conflicted, emotionally charged and worth everything a reader can take.
If you have an open mind and a willingness to love stories that make you feel everything, then this is for you.
I have had Complicated Hearts book 1 sitting on my kindle, waiting TBR, since 6/7/17…..OMG, why did I wait this long???? Ashley Jade has given us readers these amazingly complicated characters in Asher, Breslin and Landon. They each have their own set of baggage and struggle with who they are. She also gives us all the feels and some seriously hot AF sexy times….she is an author who knows how to write a MM storyline!
Wow. Just wow. I am captivated by Asher, Landon and Bre. I am on the edge of my seat for part 2. Literally just finished part 1 just now.
This by far is one of my favorite books I have ready so far this year. So well done. The characters are built with layers. It’s no where near you typical romance. It’s unique and I love that! The thoughts both Asher and Landon have as they both try to understand their feels are so raw and real. It’s was beautifully done.
My favorite scene or build up was when Asher is teaching Landon to toss the football. I was cheering when Landon stood up to the Dean for Asher! Oh and I was fanning myself during the scene in the rain. Good good that was HOT!
It not dark like Ashley’s other series I read. I am a huge dark and twisted lover. However my other love is diverse non-traditional love stories. I am so happy Ashely tried something new for her and she definitely threw a touchdown with this one (I had to get a football reference in). But seriously I think she did an amazing job on this story. I am so excited to see what loops she throws are these 3 in part 2.
There is just something about this story that from the first chapter you knsow its going to be one wild and amazing ride.
Breslin is such a relatable character, with her insecureties and self doubt. Which just intensifies the hurt you feel for her in so many of the situations that happen from the start to the last paragraph.
Asher is wow. You really just want to hate him at first, but the deeper you get the more you see how strong his love is and just how deep he goes for Breslin, even if she doesn’t know it. You see his whole life implode on him and then just fall in live with how fierce he is for his love for a girl that has no clue……
Then you see him with Landon and just get goosebumps at how amazing they should/would/could be together.
Landon…. He just, I don’t even know if I can get the words for how it felt reading him. Seeing his want for Breslin, his love for her, but not getting it back is just heart stopping. But seeing the way he is with Asher, is HOT! The frelings that come with him are so strong its insane.
This book is honestly filled with so much emotion, so much love/hate it’s amazing how well it just flows. And from the second picking it up I could not set it down.
WOW this story is not what I excepted. I believe in the saying that ‘never judge a book by its cover’ (this one is spot on, by the way). By the cover it looks like 1 girl, 2 guys but this story is so, so much more….
What happens if you suddenly have/need to question yourself with who you really are, who you truly want to be and which path you want to follow into the future. The dilemma can be harrowing, the truth hard to accept the outcome can be both devastating and enlightening at the same time. That’s what Asher and Breslin are faced with. Throw in a bit of Landon and BOOM emotion overload.
My heart was in my mouth while reading. I want to grab each one of them and give them a good old shake to try and knock some sense into into them but no Ashley Jade wrote this book to give the reader the full experience; Angst (buy the bucket load), emotional turmoil that keeps you planted to your seat turning page after page.
I love Asher and Breslin’s story.
I’m so excited to read book 2
Omg, wow! Complicated Hearts prt 1 was fu$%ing Hot!!! Had me all hot and bothered over here. Ashley Jade knows what she is doing when she is writing her books, I am flabbergasted with how hot and steamy this book was, like WOW!!! The chemistry between Landon and Ashler, made me feel like I was a peeping Tom!! I am reeling over here, I want more of the Jock and the Nerd. What is going to happen when Bri, is back from abroad and sees her high school love is attending her college, will she is be able rekindle her relationship with her college love? This is a complicated trio!!
I couldn’t put this book down. It’s so raw and so ridiculously complicated that I just had to get to the end. I wanted to shake the characters and put some sense into their messy heads. And the end… Oh lord, the end.
I have the strongest desire of strangling the author while looking for the se on book to keep on reading and get to the end of all the madness I have just had the pleasure of reading.
This book is perfection in all its imperfect aspects and it deserves to get others as kooked as it got me.
Love wants what it wants, there’s no stopping it. It’s complicated….no truer words have ever been spoken. Once again, the Author weaves her magic in a totally different type of story, yet as always, leaves me breathless with her consistent vivid and emotional imagery, and fantastic storytelling abilities. 3 characters, each relatable, likeable, and REAL. It was like watching a movie in my head filled with angst, drama, heart-wrenching emotions, it’s all laid out beautifully, and crafted with unbelievable perfection to allow the reader to escape fully to the lives of these 3 characters. The Author never fails to drag me happily by my heartstrings, finding the deeper meanings behind the words that always stay with me long after reading THE END. I’m not sure what will come with the next book, or who I’m rooting for, but I guarantee it will be explosive no matter what. The Author does broken, lovable, flawed characters like no other, and I LIVE for them. The butterflies and anticipation of what’s to come will have me anxiously awaiting the conclusion of the story unlike I have ever read before. Don’t miss it!!! I thank the Author for providing a copy to review!!
~~~Erika, Book Haven Book Blog
This book is absolutely phenominal!!! It takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotions! That doesn’t stop when the book is done. I find myself still thinking about this book and the characters and the journey thru their lives. This book has it all. Time just disappears as you read their story. This book is in my library so I can read it again. It is a one click purchase for sure. I am looking forward to the next book. Ashley Jade has done it again, this book is hands down the best. I am voluntarily leaving my review.
This is Book One of a duet and in it we meet Breslin, Asher, and Landon. Breslin and Asher dated in high school, and were inseparable, but due to something beyond their control their relationship was torn apart. Now that she’s in college Breslin is dating Landon, but wanting to keep it casual, because of being hurt in the past. Landon on the other hand is all in. He knows that she was hurt (not by who) and tries to give her space, but he wants to be with her. Asher, having lost his scholarship at his old collage (they are 21) and inheritance is just starting his senior year at the same school as Landon and Breslin (not telling you why this happened) and needs a tutor, and that’s where he meets Landon. This is where things get a bit complicated. Asher is not the same person he was in high school by far. I’ll let you read for yourself what happens after and to say it’s complicated is an understatement. But it’s worth the trip.
Complicated Hearts had me hook line and sinker! ashley jade dove into m/m m/m/f and nailed it! Her mastery at story telling takes you on a journey of love, heartbreak, and picking up the pieces even if it scares you to death. But what happens when all the pieces get jumbled together in one lump sum? You get Complicated Hearts! If you love that “punch in the gut” feeling, you’re gonna love reading this! A tangled web woven around different lives and hearts, i can’t wait to read book 2! It’s about ta get real!