Never again would I allow my heart to become the plaything of someone else. Never again would I let a man (or men) come between me and my goals. Never again would I love without feeling the fullness of that love in return. Not until I knew it was real. And if that took me a lifetime to find, so be it. Those were my vows, and after all that had happened with Connor and Weston, I was determined to … Weston, I was determined to keep them. To protect my heart.
And then he came home, and my vows became his promises.
He held my heart in his hands with reverence and care.
He helped me find my soul’s greatest purpose in life.
He loved me with a love so pure and vibrant, I knew I’d never feel anything like it in a hundred lifetimes.
It was real.
Until it wasn’t.
Until it all came crashing down when I discovered the deep love I thought I’d found was nestled in a web of lies—so soft and silken I hadn’t noticed it was there.
Until it was too late.
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Long Live the Beautiful Hearts is the emotional, heart-wrenching conclusion to the Beautiful Hearts Duet by bestselling author, Emma Scott, and is inspired by the classic tale, Cyrano de Bergerac. (Roxanne) THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL LOVE TRIANGLE #confusedhearts #notamenage
THIS BOOK IS NOT A STANDALONE. It should not be read without first reading Bring Down the Stars
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I can’t imagine how hard this book was for Emma Scott to write and I can’t help but think how the message in this book resonates with her life.
Tragedy happens in life. We lose loved ones, it could be a parent, a sibling, a partner, a child. We could face immense struggle with health or money or love. Choices have to be made and we either stop living and stay in the shadows of the life we could have or we choose life.
The message in Long Live The Beautiful Hearts is that we don’t have to walk through the dark forest. One day the shadows will lift.
Wes. Connor. Autumn. They are the beautiful hearts and the stars that shine, the dandelion wishes and the choices of life.
Beautiful written, poetic and meaningful.
“I might fail but I’m not a failure. When we stumble and fall, we pour so much energy and attention into the fact that we fell, and less on how we get back up again.”
“If there is love, there is hope for forgiveness.”
“I’ve loved you in a thousand lifetimes.”
After reading Bring Down the Stars, I couldn’t wait for Long Live the Beautiful Hearts, I had to know what happened, and Emma as usual never disappoints!! she packs so much emotion in every story she writes and you feel it, boy do you feel it!! All I’m going to say is this, because I will never have the words to give this book the justice it deserves. I will say you need this book, you need this duet. I’m just going to let people go in blind, I don’t want to say something that would give something important away, so just go and get this duet…Emma, thank you so much for your words, and I love you so much for allowing me to recieve this gift, and can’t wait for what you give us next that will most certainly knock me on my ass!!
I received an eARC of this book from the author and I am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
Wow Emma, I really am speechless. You have your way with words that touch me deep down and I am always a mess of emotions while reading your books.
This review is so haaard to write, to be spoiler free, but I will try my best.
I really fuckin’ hate war. I really do. The main problem is, though, that those people who have strings in their hands remain unscathed and innocent people have to fight for them. I really hate it! We can’t even imagine how hard it is, to go into the war, knowing that you might lost your friend there, or get hurt or even leave behind your family and loved ones.
I think that there is no need for violence. It can all be settled with a conversation and being prepared to let go some things.
This book show us how fucking’ hard it is to come home from war and everyone expects you to be the same. But that is not possible. The war damages you, because the things that you see there are hard and can’t be erased from your mind.
Emma made this book perfect. She is amazing. She shoved us that love rules the world. Anything can happen as long as you have someone to stand by you and cheer you on.
Love is magical.
Love is pure.
Just love and be loved.
The only way to survive a cliffhanger in a Emma Scott book is to trust her, trust the process and the journey she brings you on. What a journey this has been for me!
This duet is beyond romance; it’s all types of love, growth, family, empowerment, and so much more. The “love yourself” theme is so embedded in this story, it’s all-embracing and powerful. I feel every emotion, thought, hope and prayer. As a reader, this is the high you hope to hit every time you begin a book. Like water seeping through every crack in the pavement, every chapter fills each crack in my heart until my feelings are whole again.
Long live Emma Scott’s beautiful words.
With a pounding heart and nervous fingers, I opened the pages to
Long Live the Beautiful Hearts. Let me say, it does not disappoint. My review will be short and simple and not because this story doesn’t need more than that. It does – much more. I’m just not capable of doing it. My review could never do it justice. I got so wrapped up in the pages I couldn’t stop long enough to highlight or take notes – it’s that phenomenal. It’s more than just a romance, it’s a beautiful story about life and everything it has to offer. There’s such beauty and versatility in Emma Scott’s prose it consumes you. I’ll leave you with a few bullet points:
* First and foremost love, and not just the romantic kind, is powerful and magnificent.
* Friends and friendship, lasting connections, people come into your life for a reason, a plan, when they are meant to.
* Layers of emotions – love, longing, pain, suffering, joy, sorrow, realistically life-life – so much of it poured from the words and pages.
* Everyone needs a Professor Ondiwuje.
Emma Scott is one of my favorite authors. Read this duet (please read this duet!) and she’ll become one of your favorite authors too.
My mind is blown. My heart has been broken into million little pieces and agonizingly slowly put back together again – chapter by chapter, word by word. I was equally curious and anxious to find out what will happen next after such a huge and tear-jerking cliffhanger at the end of Bring Down the Stars. I didn’t dare to neither dream nor wish for a certain outcome, too afraid that my hopes are going to be destroyed in the end. I therefore went into this book with an open mind trusting Emma Scott implicitly to give Weston, Connor and Autumn the story they truly deserved. And she did, indeed. It was breathtakingly beautiful, albeit not free of tragedy and sorrow but also absolutely soul-stirring and magnificently inspiring. I’m in awe of this author’s incredible writing talent that never ceases to amaze and impress me. Her ability to tell extraordinary, unique stories that go deeply under your skin and create complex and multi-layered characters you can connect with is nothing short of remarkable.
The Beautiful Hearts Duet is without a doubt romance at its core but it’s also a journey of self-discovery and growth, of shattered dreams and broken promises, of new beginnings and second chances. These books are a reminder that everything happens for a reason – the good and the bad things. It’s up to us to decide if we will let our defeats and losses drag us down or if we will draw new strength and purpose from them. Life is a long, never ending learning curve.
Love is often messy and complicated but it can also be simple and straightforward. It can make you float on a fluffy cloud and the next moment plummeting and crashing to the ground. But it’s always, always worth fighting for. That’s a lesson all characters in this book needed to learn in their own particular way. Sometimes it made me want to shake some sense into them but other times I just wanted to console them and hold their hand. Emma Scott has once again masterfully shown how art and love can intertwine in order to heal.
Long Live the Beautiful Hearts was a worthy conclusion to this fantastic duet. It’s on my top favorite reads shelf and a story every avid book worm needs to experience for himself. Emma is going to seduce your heart and mind with her words and make you fall hopelessly and irrevocably in love with her characters. 5+ stars!
I’m sitting here in awe of Emma Scott, wondering how to write a review that will do this brilliant book justice. Because once again she took my breath away with another heart-touching and inspiring story of epic proportions. After having read so many books of hers I can say without a doubt that she is one of the most gifted authors I ever had the pleasure to come across in this book world. Her words are food for my heart and soul. They make me soar!
I can’t remember the last time when I was this scared but equally excited to read the conclusion to a Duet, since book 1 Bring Down the Stars left us all with an major jaw-dropping cliffhanger. All we knew was that Autumn was left in Amherst alone, praying for Connor and Weston to return home safely from their operation in Syria. Autumn is still confused about her feelings. While she is in love with Connor, she can’t deny the strong pull she feels towards Weston. Deep down she knows she can’t live without either of them. But then she suddenly gets a message from the Army she hoped she would never get…
I can’t and won’t tell you more from the plot because I strongly believe that you need to go into this book with an open heart and mind. Let me assure you, that you won’t be disappointed because Emma Scott gave these characters the best story possible. I doubt that anyone could have done it better than her!
What I can tell you is that Long Live the Beautiful Hearts is not only a book about love. It’s also about friendship, sacrifice and forgiveness. About accepting challenges life throws your way and making the best of them. But most of all, it’s a story about finding your true self. Which is something we all once struggled with. Sometimes expections and pressure shape us into someone we are not. It takes a lot of courage and strenght to shake them of and stay true to ourselves. Because only this way we can be truly happy. This is what these characters will realize for themselves. And it made me more than happy to watch them grow into the people they were always meant to be. After all, love always wins and gives us wings to fly, no matter how broken or shattered we are. Because even in the darkest places, love and forgiveness can be found. We only have to believe that we are worth it. 5+ stars