Eat Your Heart Out

Court Legacy #5

by Eden O'Neill

Cold.
Cruel.
Coward.

Ares “Wolf” Mallick ripped my heart out. He ground it into mush and didn’t even grant me the courtesy of a goodbye. He just left me. He left and said our relationship, fake or otherwise, meant nothing to him.

I made a mistake last semester, and it had nothing to do with our phony arrangement. I let him hurt me, and I refuse to make that mistake again. Wolf and I make it back into each other’s lives, and when we do, I make one thing clear. I don’t need him anymore.

Showing up for the holidays with his brother only drives the point home.

Cry.
Red.
Wolfy.

I’ve moved on from my ex-fake boyfriend, but unfortunately, the physical draw to him is still there. It’s carnal and just as messed up as him and that period we played pretend.

Wolf has made it very clear he feels nothing for me, and I loathe the guy who savagely broke my heart. The pair of us don’t need or even like each other, but we don’t have to in order for a relationship with benefits to work. The Big Bad Wolf and I aren’t friends, and I have no desire to be…

I’m more than fine being his enemy.

Eat Your Heart Out is an enemies-to-lovers, college romance. Please see the author’s website upon release for content warnings. The book is recommended for readers 18+ and is book five in Eden O’Neill’s Court Legacy series. Eat Your Heart Out is not a standalone and is part two of a duet. Part one, Eat You Alive, needs to be read before reading this book.

Author's Court Legacy is a spin-off series about the children of characters featured in Eden O'Neill's Court High and Court University series. It's not necessary to read the previously released series to enjoy Court Legacy. This is a new series that can be read completely on its own.

Genres: Dark Romance, Romance, Enemies To Lovers, College, Second Chance, Dark, Fake Dating

492 pages, Paperback

Published June 16, 2023

About the author

Eden O’Neill is an Amazon top 10 bestselling romance author known for sweeping readers off their feet with dark romance, fire-emoji-level spice, and a whole lot of angsty feelings. Eden inspires audiences to embrace their desires without shame—whether they want to fulfill them through fiction…or otherwise.

She teases over 100,000 followers on Tiktok and Instagram every week with her sassy (and ultra spicy) videos that pack an emotional punch. Her debut dark romance series featuring a found family spanning multiple generations has sold over 85,000 ebooks and paperbacks and continues to tantalize readers with passionate stories about morally gray heroes and the heroines who have no problem breaking them.

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Reviews

[kayla ☾ · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS BOOK COMES OUT NEXT YEAR???? no. i need it now

• read review •

1000/5 ✰ — HOLY FUCK, did this leave me in tears. this was an emotional rollercoaster and now i need to be sedated. i love ares and dawn so much like it’s unhealthy. this book was amazing and so heart wrenching i cannot take it anymore

[Karina]

DNF 17 % . The amount of inner dialogue is ridiculous . The amount of riddles is even more ridiculous. Why can’t the author just say what needs to be said. Literally simple . “She walked in the room” no it has to be a whole chapter of how the girl walked in . MY GOD a whole year waiting for a book only to have it be unnecessarily long and pointless . I need a drink

[zahraa · Rating 5 out of 5]

one word; amazing.

everyone who knows me, KNOWS i LOVE eden and all her books, and somehow, every single time, she manages to surpass ALL my expectations. there’s something so comforting about her writing. it’s been months since i read the last book, and yet as soon as i picked this one up i felt right at home.

since the start i’ve loved ares (and his dad). when it comes to ares and fawn, i’m obsessed. everything about them is so heart wrenching that i can’t help but love them so much. they are so “sad beautiful tragic” coded. their story HURT ME. i CRIED.

but overall it was addicting. i love this universe and all it’s characters with all my heart, they’ve truly become a part of me.

i cannot wait for the next book!!

[Nikki Abrego · Rating 2 out of 5]

No. just no.

This book was everywhere! I had a hard time keeping up with the plot, it changed constantly. I felt there were a few scenes rushed, a few scenes unnecessary, and even a few characters that could have been cut out.

I had high expectation for this book. Especially how it ended with the brother in the last book. There was a lot of dialogue about being weak, miscommunication, and being unloveable. It just felt like everything was going in a circle

[Amanda Carpenter · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved Fawn and Ares first book, but this one really didn’t give me what i thought it would. I felt to many side characters we mentioned/ focused on to build other stories that it took away Ares and Fawn that much the book lost what story couple it was meant to ne following.

It felt rushed in parts and the end to get the story over with. I really wanted to like this book as i said i loved the first one and was dying for the next part.

please note this is my opinion only

[Hannah Huskins · Rating 1 out of 5]

I loved Eat Your Heart Out sooooo much and was really looking forward to continuing Red and Wolfs story but this book really let me down. EYHO was my first introduction to Eden O’Neill and I was addicted. I couldn’t wait to read this one, so I hastily read through her other books and became more hype for this one after reading Sloane and Dorians stories. I don’t know if Eden was struggling creatively to figure out how to continue R and W story or she was being rushed but I am truly disappointed with how the second installment ended. The story felt rushed like she couldn’t wait to be done with it and it went in circles. There was too much focus on third parties where it didn’t even feel like R and W were the main characters. The second chapter when R and W met again because of Bru made the story seem like I was going to get the same quality as EYHO but quickly went down hill from there. I truly dreaded this book but I kept hoping it would turn around but it just kept getting worse. Reading this book makes me never read an Eden O’neill book again. I can’t express how disheartened this book has made me.

[Laura Blanco · Rating 1 out of 5]

Para empezar, el plot no tiene ningún tipo de sentido, el echo de que están "forzados" a pasar las navidades juntos pero literalmente no interactuan hasta casi la mitad del libro es un chiste.
Jugar la cáncer card en el final del libro for shock value y en cierto sentido para justificar el comportamiento de ares sobraba bastante.
El libro podía tener mucho potencial dentro de lo aue cabe, angst, mutual pinning, tensión sexual etc pero no, es mucho mejor escribir un libro sin argumento en el que se justifican los comportamientos tóxicos y tratar a la gente como basura bc Ai!tengo cáncer vaya por dios.

Como el próximo libro no sea de wells y bow me veréis en las noticias.

[Mariana · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book made me so angry, I dnf at 51% and I really think that it was too much.
Ares and Fawn look like secondary characters instead of main characters, the monologues, the descriptions of everything and introducing the other characters every time they show up was tiring, but having Bru's pov was soooooo unnecessary, I couldn't give a fuck about him, his drama was too much.
It's really sad because I loved the previous one, unfortunately the author looked like she was done with their story and was just filling the pages with whatever came to not tell about them.
For me it would be better if was a smaller book, but focused on them than this mess that was created.

[Reva · Rating 1 out of 5]

This should’ve stayed on Patreon. At the very least, get an editor before you attempt to publish a book. Had that been done, somebody would’ve told you that you don’t write a book like you’re doing weekly updates on a fanfic site. Even so, how slow is your audience? The recap in this book was extremely ridiculous. I don’t even know how I manage it. Get an editor!

[౨ৎ˖ ࣪⊹ hanah ౨ৎ˖ ࣪⊹ · Rating 4 out of 5]

₊⊹⁀➴ 4.25 stars
the plot was MOVING but the whole thing with wolf’s “i dont deserve her bc i keep hurting her” started getting redundant.

[Morgan White · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF @ 45%

I was left on a cliffhanger for this bs

Two words
Garbage 🗑️ fire 🔥

[Danielle · Rating 1 out of 5]

It pains me not to finish a book. But I could not get into this to save my life. And I heard such great things, but it wasn't for me.

[amari · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5⭐️

My heart was broken into a million pieces, put back together again over and over while reading this book. Area and Fawn are everything and their love story breaks my heart but I am so happy that they are happy together. What Wolf has gone through is so heartbreaking and the fact that he did it alone kills me even more. They are both tragically in love with each other and no matter how hard they try to stay away, they are inevitable. the fact that Wolf ran FIVE freaking miles to go be with Fawn during the rainstorm literally made my heart melt into a billion pieces. I love how he’s such a secret softie for Fawn. ALSO the tattoo omg. I can’t wait for the next book because every single book in this series has been absolutely amazing.

Favorite Quote:
“My entire being needed to be with this girl. Everything I was needed her. Fawn Greenfield was my forever place. My forever…”

[Nadine · Rating 3 out of 5]

This read was kind of weird. At the beginning I thought it will be a love-triangle because we have a third POV woven into the story. Besides Ares and Fawn's POV we also get to see into the mind of Bru, which I didn't really get. I didn't get why the story should get any added value from it.

I also think, even though the writing was equally good and enjoyable like the other books in this series, I kind of felt main parts of the book were redundant.

Maybe this is a classical "it's me, not the book" kind of case, but from all 5 books out of this series, this felt the weakest.

[adriana♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

[Megan Dudley]

Swooning - definitely in the feels

Wolf and Red are my favorite coupling!! This book definitely had me in the feels and it was a roller-coaster of emotions. Eden O'Neill wrote a phenomenal story and my heart bled for this couple as they fought to push each other away at the same time as fighting to stay together. My favorite Court Legacy book so far!!

[ladyreadsalot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just read the prologue and first chapter!! May 20 2023 cant come fast enough!!

[M · Rating 1 out of 5]

I found this very hard to get into compared to the first book. There wasn’t a lot of substance to it, and then storyline, just like the characters emotions, were all over the place.

[Kalie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The most drama filled book and for no reason at all- this was rough

[Amanda Marsico · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dnf, got through 2 pages.

[Read By Cassie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have always been incredibly impressed by Eden O’Neill’s books and this entire world she created.

All of the characters have been interesting and the relationships between them have always been some of my favorites.

This book was no different then the rest for me, an absolute delight. I have loved Wolf since we first met him in this series and his relationship with Fawn is such a beautiful rollercoaster.

Every little detail that came out throughout the book made me feel for the both of them. I didn’t see some of it coming but it made the story all the more better.

I cannot wait to see what Eden brings to us next and who the story is going to be about. Whatever it is, I know I am going to love it.

[Michelle Delp (Fazio) · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sweet HEA!

I was so excited to finally read the ending to Fawn and Wolf’s story and it was everything I had hoped it would be!! It was just so good, especially the last few pages… ugh, my heart!

If you didn’t know, Eat Your Heart Out is the 5th book in the Court Legacy series and is part two of Fawn and Wolf’s story and it did not disappoint! This is an enemies to lovers romance but, it’s also so much more than that as well.

Wolf and Fawn have gone through their trials and tribulations let me tell you but, it all leads to such a sweet understanding and culmination of their relationship. I won’t give it away but, even before they “knew” each other in college their lives had been intertwined for some time, and it was such an awesome twist to the story that it just built it up and made it so much more real.

This book gives you all the feels and all the love you need when reading an enemies to lovers romance. Don’t sleep on this series! I can’t wait for the next book!

[Felicia's Review · Rating 5 out of 5]

Omg, we are back with the Court Legacy series. Ares aka Wolf picks up where Eat You Alive ended. Oh boy does Ares have some groveling to do. Fawn and Aries story took me on a journey. There was many twist and turns. So many answers to questions I didn't even think I had questions for.

[Nat · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow.

This explained so very much about why Ares was so vile and disgusting in the previous book. Don’t get me wrong, it does NOT excuse what he did, but it helps us understand.

This one was way better than the first.

[Alina Neacsu · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it. I see now the whole plan from the start - funny how it rounds out.

[Hayley Somerton · Rating 4 out of 5]

The rollercoaster that this book put me through should be illegal.

[Tiffany · Rating 2 out of 5]

I stopped reading towards the final chapters. I tried, but it just kept going, and the writing got sloppier.

[Maddie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’m sorry. That really was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. The plot was all over the place. The fmc and mmc relationship had me rolling my eyes over and over again.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of My Favorite Series!

I love the whole series and think every one of these books are epic! This author has become one of my fave’s. If your on the fence don’t be.

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️
I love when love makes two guarded ppl completely vulnerable 😩