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A review by jessicadesamota
When Hearts Awaken by Victoria Lum
5.0
When Hearts Awaken by Victoria Lum 🖤
The Orchid, Book 4
Interconnected Standalone
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️
Adult • Romance
ARC Review
427 pages
🗓️ February 5
🖤enemies to lovers
🩰romantic suspense
🖤he falls first
🩰love after trauma
🖤best friend’s sister
🩰age gap
🖤slow burn
🩰ballerina FMC
📍“Roses are much more beautiful with thorns.”
📍“I see you, Charles Vaughn. One day, they’ll see you too.”
As a Maxwell girlie, I now declare I’m a forever-Charles-simp. Please note that dark haired MMCs have been replaced with blondes. I don’t make the rules. My heart does.
This is — hands down — one of my favorite reads of 2025. And while the year is just starting, I don’t see that changing. The way it grabbed my attention and never let it go was just one of those things I’ll think about often. 👏🏼👏🏼
Taylor, my prickly swan. Only the Odiles will ever understand that there’s beauty in the dark and strength in thorns. I know I do. The black swan has always drew me in, but Taylor took that allure and made it into a pulsing love inside my heart. She was a dazzling Odile and resilient Odette. I think I watched her dance both in my head and in my heart 🦢
While sharing some of my thoughts with Victoria, she told me Taylor required someone special like Charles. Those walls were built high and he was not afraid of tearing them down. Charles *is* indeed special and one of those MMCs who leave a mark on us, with us.
Thank you so much @authorvictorialum for this ARC.
P.S.: the next one in the series has one of my FAVORITE tropes EVER! IM NOT CHILLED ABOUT THIS. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT 😱😱😱
The Orchid, Book 4
Interconnected Standalone
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️
Adult • Romance
ARC Review
427 pages
🗓️ February 5
🖤enemies to lovers
🩰romantic suspense
🖤he falls first
🩰love after trauma
🖤best friend’s sister
🩰age gap
🖤slow burn
🩰ballerina FMC
📍“Roses are much more beautiful with thorns.”
📍“I see you, Charles Vaughn. One day, they’ll see you too.”
As a Maxwell girlie, I now declare I’m a forever-Charles-simp. Please note that dark haired MMCs have been replaced with blondes. I don’t make the rules. My heart does.
This is — hands down — one of my favorite reads of 2025. And while the year is just starting, I don’t see that changing. The way it grabbed my attention and never let it go was just one of those things I’ll think about often. 👏🏼👏🏼
Taylor, my prickly swan. Only the Odiles will ever understand that there’s beauty in the dark and strength in thorns. I know I do. The black swan has always drew me in, but Taylor took that allure and made it into a pulsing love inside my heart. She was a dazzling Odile and resilient Odette. I think I watched her dance both in my head and in my heart 🦢
While sharing some of my thoughts with Victoria, she told me Taylor required someone special like Charles. Those walls were built high and he was not afraid of tearing them down. Charles *is* indeed special and one of those MMCs who leave a mark on us, with us.
Thank you so much @authorvictorialum for this ARC.
P.S.: the next one in the series has one of my FAVORITE tropes EVER! IM NOT CHILLED ABOUT THIS. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT 😱😱😱