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?
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What I thought about Heard It In A Love Song
Layla and Josh are two people recovering from the loss of their
marriages. Layla might have become a famous singer, but instead is
dealing with walking away from an abusive relationship. Josh is there
too, trying to put the pieces of what is left of his life back together
after twenty years with a spouse.
They meet at school where
Josh's child is going to school where Layla teaches. Both characters are
dealing with the aftermath of unsatisfying relationships and it's easy
to understand why they aren't eager to jump right back in with both
feet. They have scars.
There are many emotions to unpack and
examine in this story, which is why I really liked it. It did not
trivialize what it takes to move past a life altering event like divorce
and its aftermath. This is a romance that builds slowly through these
emotions and then past them to what could be as Josh and Layla's
friendship grows into something more.
Their story is told
through flashbacks which sometimes worked well for me and other times
made the story drag a bit. Overall, the backstory was an added component
to the story that I found good to know.
I liked this love story.
It was full of emotions across a wide spectrum which is exactly the
type of romance I like. Even better, I adore when a love relationship
starts out with a solid friendship. Overall, there was a lot to like in
Heard It in a Love Song.
(Great cover too!)
Tracey Garvis Graves is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestselling author of contemporary fiction. Her debut novel, On the Island, spent 9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been translated into thirty-five languages, and is in development with MGM and Temple Hill Productions for a feature film. She is also the author of Uncharted, Covet, Every Time I Think of You, Cherish, Heart-Shaped Hack, White-Hot Hack, The Girl He Used to Know, and Heard It in a Love Song. She is hard at work on her next book.
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