Review: Heartbreaker

Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Let me just go ahead and say that there will be some more reviews hitting the blog because I’m trying to update my Goodreads with them more as I actually review them. Most won’t get reviewed, but will get a rating, so if you’re interested in what I’ve read this year and have been too lazy to write a review on, just go on over to my Goodreads (link below) and take a peek. Add me as a friend on there. We can all use more friends, right? xo, Holly

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yup, that is SIX stars for this one. Was I surprised? A little. Should I have been? Absolutely not. I have been waiting impatiently for this since I finished Bombshell back in September, and this SO lived up to my hopes!



Oh, Adelaide and Henry. I mean, y’all… I adored Sesily and Caleb in Bombshell; I gave the book a 4.5 rating (that’s not reflected on here, naturally… but I digress) but Adelaide Frampton and the motherfluffing Duke of Clayborn? YES. We see them interact at the Beaufetheringstone ball in Bombshell, neither are pleased with the other, but people, when they are brought together at the beginning of Heartbreaker in the Bully Boys’ headquarters in South London all their tension heats up and you will root for them, even as they purport to dislike each other. (The rest of the Hell’s Belles are not fooled and are just waiting for these two to catch up.) Combine all that tension with a race-turned-partnership to get to Gretna Green to stop (or not) his brother’s elopement, a highwaywoman and her gentlemen, one bed in each of the inns, along with a lot of fighting: between themselves, for their safety, and for her honor (because HOW DARE someone call Adelaide forgettable and HOW DARE they make her feel less than the goddess she is… oops, did he catch feelings?), and the Belles trying to mete justice out on another aristo, and you’ve got the perfect book. At least in my eyes.

I did not want to put this down last night, despite starting it so late, and I definitely did not want to put it down to work today. I’d say I’ve got a slight book hangover and I’m not sad about it at all. I’ll fix that with a little hair of the dog tomorrow and start another long anticipated book. 🤣 But for tonight, I’ll continue to live in the world of Adelaide and Henry and start anxiously waiting for Imogen and Tommy’s book that comes out sometime next year.



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