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Blogmas Day Six: Book Review "Heartborn" by Terry Maggert.

Happy Blogmas Day Six Everyone!




I hope you're all enjoying the holiday season so far, and I'm very thankful I'm getting to spend it with all of you through Blogmas this year. :)

Today I wanted to continue on with the Bookish trend of my Blogmas, and share my review for Heartborn by Terry Maggert!


I received a complimentary copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are one hundred per cent my own.

Book Review:

Heartborn by Terry Maggert:



Source: Author

Publication Date: September 1st, 2016


Synopsis:

Her guardian angel was pushed.

Keiron was never meant to be anything other than a hero. Born high above in a place of war and deception, he is Heartborn, a being of a purity and goodness in a place where violence and deceit are just around every corner.

His disappearance will spark a war he cannot see, for Keiron has pierced the light of days to save a girl he has never met, for reasons he cannot understand. Livvy Foster is seventeen, brave and broken. With half a heart, she bears the scars of a lifetime of pain and little hope of survival. 

Until Keiron arrives.

In the middle of a brewing war and Livvy's failing heart, Keiron will risk everything for Livvy, because a Heartborn's life can only end in one way: Sacrifice.

Fall with Keiron and Izzy as they seek the truth about her heart, and his power, and what it means to love someone who will give their very life to save you.

My Review:

I'm going to preface this review by saying that I haven't actually read that many books about angels. I love to read inspirational fiction, as anyone who reads my blog is aware, but fantasy novels about angels are something I haven't read too many of, and really the only ones that come to mind are The Immortal City series by Scott Speer (which I loved!), and The Fallen series by Lauren Kate (which I hated!) So this series was definitely something new for me, and I found myself eagerly anticipating  this step into a different category of literature than I'm used to.

Having just finished the first three novels in Terry Maggert's Halfway Witchy series, I was really looking forward to reading this one. I really like his writing style, and I loved most of the characters from that previous series. Plus a guardian angel "falling" for a human sounded like something that would be right up my alley, and so I eagerly dived into this one.

Unfortunately, it didn't end up being quite what I expected. Told in many varying narrators, Heartborn is the story of Livvy, a young woman who was born with only half a heart, and Keiron, her guardian angel who's pushed from above to come rescue her. Livvy works at the local library, and is enthralled with Keiron the first moment she meets him. He seems to feel the same way, and soon the two of them are on their way to a slightly cheesy romance that was a little too insta love for my liking. 

However, unknown to both of them, back in Keiron's "home", things aren't going so well. His family, House Windhook is preparing for judgement by the angel council for allowing Keiron to leave for Earth in the first place. A war is coming that has been many years in the making, and unbeknownst to her, Livvy will play a central role. Soon a relationship that started out as sweet and innocent will become full of tragedy and sacrifice, and no one is truly prepared for what the outcome of such events would be.

I saw that this book had really rave reviews on goodreads, and I was honestly hoping I would end up feeling the same. However, for me, this novel was a three out of five stars read, as there were just certain things about it I really couldn't wrap my head around. For starters, I felt there were way too many narrators, and this is definitely one trope in literature that I'm not a fan of. Secondly, I really didn't find myself truly liking the romance element as I felt that we weren't truly shown enough of it for it to feel like anything but insta love for me. Thirdly, I didn't find the war elements happening back in Keiron's world to be that interesting, and while I found myself happily speeding through the first third or so of this book, the middle had me dragging and it took my quite awhile to finish it. And lastly, I found the ending and the parts around it to be honestly confusing, and I felt that I was left asking a lot of questions as to what had truly just happened.

So while I did still enjoy this novel overall, it definitely didn't compare to his fantastic Halfway Witchy series, and I would personally recommend that one over this one.

I once again thank Terry Maggert for the opportunity to have read this!



Thanks for reading guys, and I'll see you all tomorrow for Blogmas Day Seven :)


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