Tuesday 2 November 2021

πŸ• HEARD IT IN A LOVE SONG 🧑 Tracey Garvis Graves 🎢

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• 9 November 2021
• 304 pages
★★★★★
4.9 Stars

From the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances.

Love doesn’t always wait until you’re ready.


Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past
her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her firstLaylas newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness.


Then there’s Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he’s still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more.


Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple
but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness thats a love song away?





Layla + Josh

Both have just recently returned to life as a single person.
Layla just got divorced from Liam - her husband of ten years. And single dad Josh is divorced from Kimmy - who he met in highschool.
Layla and Josh meet at the school where Layla teaches music and where Josh's little girl has just started Kindergarten.
Both are not really ready for a new relationship. Especially not a rebound thing. And anyway, Layla doesn't have time and energy for a new love. She's busy getting back the music that got lost in her marriage. Music used to be her life. And now she's finally allowed to play her guitar again - she even builds a little music room in the basement of her new little house.
But Layla and Josh cross paths a lot ...
What to do? Try being just friends?

What will happen to Layla + Josh?
Will there be a Happily Ever After?
READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT!
 
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Well. I loved this.
Was it Women's Fiction? Or a mature romance?
No idea, but I liked it a lot.

This was obviously somewhat of a slow romance thingy, especially since it's not really a typical romance at all. It's a real life story. A find-your-happiness-again-after-divorce book. Find your joy in life again. Find your passion for life again. And then ... then maybe finding love again - but the forever and ever kind this time.

I really loved Layla and Josh and the kid and the dog.
They would be such an amazing family - but of course it might take us a little while to get to that happy end.
They all have a lot of healing to do.
But the reader loves being part of that journey!

What bothered me a bit at first - and which always bothers me in books - are the going-back-in-time chapters. No idea why I don't like those. We need to know what happened in their pasts, but it always stops my reading-flow of current events. I want to know what happens now and what will happen in the future - I don't want the past to get in the way of my enjoyment of the love story!
But anyway - it wasn't too bad now that I'm done with the story. 🀣

And another tiny little thing. The cover is super beautiful... but... Without reading the blurb, I would expect some kind of hippie, Woodstock, drugs, music romance set 50 years in the past. And we get the music parts, but there's only a tiny amount of seventies music - these are eighties/nineties kids. I think the cover is a bit misleading. I would've loved to get that same woman but sitting with a guitar in her lap, photographed from behind with some fairy lights and a glass of wine next to her. That would've been Layla.
But pffft - what do I know - the cover is so pretty and the story was beautiful too!

I also wouldn't mind if Hollywood would come and made something out of this book.

HEARD IT IN A LOVE SONG was such an amazing life + love story! A book so full of real life and music and healing and loving. Just beautiful! READ IT!




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Tracey Garvis Graves is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary fiction. Her debut novel, On the Island, spent 9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been translated into thirty-one languages, and is in development with MGM and Temple Hill Productions for a feature film. She is also the author of Uncharted, Covet, Every Time I Think of You, Cherish, Heart-Shaped Hack, White-Hot Hack, and The Girl He Used to Know. She is hard at work on her next book.