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Elastic Heart by Mary Catherine Gebhard

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4.0

*ARC PROVIDED FOR AN HONEST REVIEW*

I am gonna start with the cover and the title of this book because they're so damn catchy. They were tempting and I just signed up for the ARC and I don't regret it.

"The world kept revolving, and I had to revolve with it. Even if I really didn’t fucking want to."~

Nami is a troubled woman. She needed to heal, she thinks she wants to stay away from everyone, but she didn't know that Law was her answer. She needed love and she desired acceptance. She wanted to be free.
A woman seeking out revenge, a man falling in love with her, isn't it somehow familiar?
Maybe, but their road isn't easy. It's tiring, exhausting and even frustrating sometimes, but you wouldn't help to want to know the ending.

“I won’t let this consume you. Your heart is too beautiful.”

Law is a patient man, a saint I swear to god. He handled a lot and he didn't give up. I admire him, this persistant man. He fought for Nami, he believed in her and didn't let go.
I hated the lies, but I loved how he didn't back down and just loved her.

"When was I going to learn that the only person in the world who had my back was me? I was my castle, my keeper, and my sovereign. It was a lonely existence, but it was better than constantly being fucked over."~

Nami was stubborn, but you just understand her and the hard walls surrounding her and her heart. She was like a wounded animal or a little girl who needed healing.
Law is too much, in a good way.
They belonged together.

"It was so much easier to hate. Hate was fuel but love was fire, and it was slowly burning me up inside out."~

What I didn't like about this book? It was slow at times, most of the book, but then suddenly it was so fast and just ended. It felt rushed and I was like "just that?". It made me feel off.

"Love him or occasionally hate him, he was the only Law that I would obey."~

Law and Nami are different characters. They were always in some kind of war. This book started slow, but suddenly everything shifts and it ends and you're left wanting more.
Beware of the elastic hearts.
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