A review by theferalhousewivesbookclub
Training the Heart by Paisley Hope

5.0

Spice: 2.5/5
Plot: 4.75/5

SPOILER FREE! lol, go me!!

Move over Nash Carter, Wade Ashby’s in town and we’ve got a new favourite Silver Pines man!! I mean maybe. Maybe not? Yes! No? Fuck. Y’all I can’t choose lol.

This book was so damn good! It was everything I could have wanted for the second book in this amazing world. Not only do you get Wade and Ivy, who are absolutely fucking perfect for each other, but you also get to know everyone else on a deeper level too. We get really hilarious glimpses of Nash and CeCe and how their life together is progressing and it’s so damn adorable. Papa Dean was exactly who needed in this book for both comic relief and some very heartfelt moments and I love him so much. I still feel like I need to grow up to be Mama Jo lol, and of course we’ve got the Not Angels. But the icing on the side character cake was BY FAR the tension and the angst that we’ve got building between Ginger and Cole. Lord help me, that book is gunna burn the damn house down. The banter between those two, phew! Someone hand me a fan cuz I might swoon lmao.

Now onto the juicy stuff... Wade and Ivy, talk about the cutest couple ever lol. She is just so adorable with her smutty audio books and clumsy ways lol. She’s feisty and strong and I saw so much of myself in her with what she went through, and her character arc was absolutely beautiful. And Wade, honest to goodness you guys, he is the most perfect man. I do not have a single negative thing to say about him and I might physically fight anyone who does. I can’t even describe him to you cuz it wouldn’t do him justice lol, you just have to meet him for yourself. I will say this, there’s a scene in a bathroom with a little