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Foolish Hearts (Jackson Falls, 4)

von Synithia Williams

Reihen: Jackson Falls (book 4)

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All they need is a second chance... It's been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell--and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn't dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last...and nobody taught her that better than her own family. But when her grandmother unexpectedly dies, leaving Ashiya in charge of a multimillion-dollar company, Russell is the only one who can help her...and things get complicated fast. Russell Gilchrist would do anything to be named COO of Robidoux Holdings--with all of the power and money that comes along with it. He's been desperate to solve the disappearance of his brother, Roderick, for years, and the Robidoux influence could finally turn this cold case hot--and give his family some much-needed closure. The job is his...if he helps Ashiya manage her new business. He'll just do his work and get out--that's the plan. But being so close to the woman who broke his heart is dangerous. Seeing her smile and feeling her touch makes him want to forget the past. But will this second chance at love burn them both? "The perfect escape." --Entertainment Weekly on Forbidden Promises  … (mehr)
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3.3 stars

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She'd toyed with him. Used him to make her ex jealous, and by the time she realized she was falling for Russell, it was too late.

Fourth in the Jackson Falls series, Foolish Hearts is a book that you could jump into the series with, like I did, but the beginning will have you realizing that you're missing out on some family and friend relationship background. I never felt lost but there was some missing context with relationships and the foundation for the town of Jackson Falls, the Robidoux family, and their big corporation. Ashiya's mother is a Robidoux but Ashiya never wanted to be a part of their competitive and cutthroat world working in the company, she instead started her own consignment clothing business, Piece Together, and while she is friends with her all her cousins, does her own thing.
Russell at one time was secretly dating Ashiya and fell for her hard but heartbreakingly learned that Ashiya was only using him to make her ex jealous and get him to take her back. He's managed to mainly avoid her for the last three years since their break-up but as he's working towards being CEO of Robidoux Holdings it's getting harder.

Her voice was one of the things that had gotten him from the start. Soft, and teasing. Like the caress of cotton or silk across his skin whenever she laughed or spoke his name.

The first half of the book will have most of your sympathies with Russell, as he was treated fairly bad by Ashiya, using him to make her ex jealous and then trying to emotionally manipulate him to spend time with her as she is trying to get him back. The second half will have you soften towards Ashiya as more of her childhood is revealed and we learn how she internalized her parents' rocky relationship. Ashiya's mother married her father for the large corporation his mother owned and when she gets called a gold digger for it and her husband gets disowned and shunned from the family, she pushes Ashiya's father away. The two never get divorced because Ashiya's father didn't want her to grow-up without a father but the distance, emotional manipulation, and coldness is felt by Ashiya growing up. This sets the stage for how Ashiya acts in her relationships and why she handled it the way she did the first time she started dating Russell and then to the present when she is trying to get him back. I can see some feeling less charitable towards her character but the second half gives the material to draw more empathy for her. Russell's character was the combination of sweet and strong that will have readers firmly in his corner and swooning.

He'd only wanted to find someone he could love and trust.

What draws these characters together for their second chance romance is Ashiya's grandmother on her father's side dying and listing Ashiya in her will as sole beneficiary and leaving Ashiya as chairperson and majority holder in her company. It's at first something Ashiya doesn't want, she's worked to escape that world from her mother's side but when she shows up to reject the will readings, her cousin Levi, who has been mostly running the company, gets in her face about being a gold digger like her mother. Ashiya decides to show him and everyone she can run a company. Ashiya goes to her cousin who runs Robidoux Holdings, asking for some help and guidance but her cousin directs Russell to help Ashiya. Russell is told it's because the cousin is considering him for CEO and needs to know she can trust him and as Russell really wants the CEO job, because of the money and power that will come with it, he agrees to go to Hilton Head to help Ashiya. This also helps and brings in the side story going involving the disappearance of Russell's brother fifteen years ago when he went to Hilton Head for spring break. A new detective is on the cold case and Russell wants to personally talk to him and maybe do a little investigation himself, why he wants the CEO position so bad, he will be in a power position to make people pay attention to his brother's case.

He'd begged her to stay and she'd still walked away. She'd been such a fool.

As you can tell, there are some major threads going on, the second chance romance, Ashiya's immediate and outer family drama, Ashiya inheriting a company, and Russell still trying to find out what happened to his brother years ago. Towards the latter second half there was also some embezzlement mystery from Ashiya's new company that tied in but, yeah, there was a good amount going on. I thought it all held together but I did think Ashiya and Russell's building relationship took a hit because of everything else going on. There were a few flashbacks to show us these two in love but I missed more of the emotion building blocks, I want to know and see the hows and whys of the falling in love, it's about going on the journey with them for me; second chance can sometimes give us less of the journey because of the nature of the trope. I thought this second time around I got a lot of lusting from Ashiya and a lot of wariness from Russell until the latter second half where I thought we got better looks at their friendship and emotional connection.

Ashiya suppressed a smile and the spark of hope glowing hotter in her chest. He still felt something. He might not want to, but he did.

Russell stole the show for me a little bit because of how sweet he was and how his vulnerability showed through him not wanting to open his heart up again to Ashiya, I felt his broken heart. I would be remiss if I didn't mention how steamy this couple was, too. I feel I talk enough about too many sex scenes but this story had a good amount in the second half and because they fit the couple, they fit the story and actually enhanced this couple for me. Look, when they got interrupted the first time I wanted to reach into the pages and shove the barging character out the door and the kitchen table scene was definitely not a waste.

His hand pushed the hair back from her face. He rested his forehead on hers and locked eyes with her.

I would have liked to have seen more of this couple's beginning falling in love, maybe one of the story threads taken out, and more time given to Russell's brother's cold case, especially because of how much of an emotional punch it gives at the end. Ashiya and Russell did deliver on the steamy and ended up giving me one of the most grown-up, mature relationship talks that gave their coming together an even more satisfying feel. I'll be going back to check out the beginning of the series and will be on the lookout to see if Ashiya's cousin Levi gets a wake up call to pay more attention to Ashiya's late grandmother's assistant Brianna. ( )
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All they need is a second chance... It's been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell--and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn't dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last...and nobody taught her that better than her own family. But when her grandmother unexpectedly dies, leaving Ashiya in charge of a multimillion-dollar company, Russell is the only one who can help her...and things get complicated fast. Russell Gilchrist would do anything to be named COO of Robidoux Holdings--with all of the power and money that comes along with it. He's been desperate to solve the disappearance of his brother, Roderick, for years, and the Robidoux influence could finally turn this cold case hot--and give his family some much-needed closure. The job is his...if he helps Ashiya manage her new business. He'll just do his work and get out--that's the plan. But being so close to the woman who broke his heart is dangerous. Seeing her smile and feeling her touch makes him want to forget the past. But will this second chance at love burn them both? "The perfect escape." --Entertainment Weekly on Forbidden Promises  

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