Heard It In A Love Song By Tracey Garvis Graves
Synopsis.
From Tracey Garvis Graves, the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances in Heard It in a Love Song.
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 first―Layla’s 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 that’s a love song away?
The Review
This is NOT a riveting love story.
And that’s ok 🙃
I think it’s the male mc. He is totally a nice guy.
He rescues a pet, opens the door (I’m sure), hates online dating, eats sandwiches, has a crush on his daughters’ teacher.
Is that the steam??!!
Is that the crux??!!
We’re talking: doing puzzles together, walking the dog and dates are trivia nights at the local bar.
No drama, no missing exes, no addiction problems, no cats that talk, or that one night in college when someone died.
A slow, sweet, simmering romance. Between late thirty-something-year-olds with morals and healthy boundaries.
This has to appeal to someone.
Conversations about circle time, doggie poop schedules, and the 🔥 his fingers lightly brushing.
It’s lovely.
But I need a little more🔥 and I like my coffee hot.
There was absolutely no friction in this book. None. There was an obvious (in the synopsis) situation that made their relationship risque (😒) (no spoilers here). But it wasn’t enough to make it interesting.
Perhaps my sad 🖤 can’t suspend disbelief enough. Is this what finding love in your forties looks like?
I don’t want to have sex with 16-year-old students or their teachers. Perhaps Tracey Garvis Graves is not for me.
I’m really curious, how 🔥 do you like your romances?
Do you need friction in the plot to make it interesting?
Maybe I’ve read too many thrillers and CoHos. I’m not sure. 😕
Is this fetish fiction?
Heard it was a love story…
Thanks a million to @macmillanaudio and @netgalley for this alc! Auto-approval is the best!
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