★★★★★ +
What an absolutely beautiful end to an amazing series! #♥ is full of the drama, romance and family that we’ve come to love in this series, and the ending was bittersweet!
#♥ is told in four points of view, so we get to see inside Rimmel’s, Romeo’s, Braeden’s, and Ivy’s minds as they finish this crazy journey in their lives. #♥ starts after the end of #Player (Romeo and Rimmel’s story) and #Poser (Braeden and Ivy’s story). Romeo and Rimmel are about to start their lives together, being newly engaged, and Ivy and Braeden are dealing with the aftermath of the car crash and working on moving forward. Just when you think things can’t go wrong for these characters, one final thing comes in that could destroy them all and ruin their tight knit family.
Romeo and Rimmel are happy in love, and working on planning their wedding. I loved the little romantic things that Romeo still does for Rimmel even though he has her. Seeing things play out for them, and seeing how much Rimmel has grown and changed from the beginning of this series to now was awesome. Rimmel is still the clumsy “nerd” she was, but she’s stronger, fierce, and very protective of Romeo and everyone else in their “family”. She’s grown up a ton, as did Romeo, and I was crying happy tears when they finally became man and wife.
Braeden and Ivy have so much to work through still, but as long as they have one another, they can make it through anything. Each of them are dealing with life after the car accident that took Zach’s life, but the love for one another shines through everything else. When things get tough, they come together and are stronger than ever. Seeing Ivy being the rock for Braeden in this story was awesome. She’s always been a spit-fire, but when people and outside forces threatens the man she loves, you don’t want to see how angry and feisty she can get. I LOVED how things ended up for these two and I can’t believe how much both of them have changed since we first met them in #Nerd.
I absolutely adored seeing how strong Rimmel, Romeo, Braeden, Ivy, Drew, and Trent are and how they will stand by one another no matter what. After watching these characters grow throughout this series, it was beautiful to see how mature they have become and how strong their bond is. One thing I loved was seeing Ivy and Romeo become closer in this story. I think both of them were jealous of the BBFL relationship that Braeden and Rimmel had and didn’t really understand it, until they had it themselves. Throw in Trent and Drew, and this is one amazing and tight knit family.
Seeing these characters get their HEA was a long time coming, and done in a perfect way. With everything that’s happened to them in previous books, and the crap they have to go through in this story, to see them get everything they deserved and more was bittersweet and emotional. I laughed, I cried, and I read slower than normal just so I didn’t have to read the words “The End”.
As much as I hate to say goodbye to these characters, I now they will stay with me for a long time. I was weary picking up #Nerd a year ago, but now that I’ve met this group of friends and read their story, I didn’t want to say goodbye as I’ve come to love them dearly. As readers we always want more, and I am not ashamed to admit I would read twenty more books in this series if Cambria Hebert would write them, but at the same time, I am ecstatic with how this series ended. I have laughed with these characters, cried for them, and fought with them, and now I’m crying with the ending. I’m not crying because of how it ended, but with how beautiful the ending truly was. I encourage everyone who hasn’t read this series, to go grab #Nerd now and read till the very last page of #Heart, trust me on this, you will fall in love with these characters and the ride they take you on!