A review by v_nez
Complicated Hearts by Ashley Jade

5.0

Plot 4/5
Spice 4/5

Book is MF MFF MM

As your story is extremely sad, Asher is a joke that has everything going for him. He is the top football player is dad‘s in charge of the NFL team. He is a drop dead gorgeous man and in love with Brislin only tragic thing is Kyle a teammate is infatuated with him, and blackmails him with a video of him doing things with Kyle, Kyle assaulted Asher and it was not some thing that he was into at the time. It made Asher question his sexuality, if he was gay or straight all while he was in a relationship with Brislyn. Fast forward a few days after prom. He decides to have sex for the first time with Brislin and shortly after he admits to her that he thinks he is possibly gay because he has not come to her and confessed. What happened with Kyle and what his brain is thinking about his sexuality. He shatters Brislyn’s heart. They split up and then leave to go to college.

Brislin is an art major and falls for a guy Landon, who is a music major and fall is a very strong word because she is still very guarded from what Asher did to her. She didn’t want to let him in and when he confesses that he’s in love with her. She breaks it off and runs away to Europe, with the excuse of it, bettering her career.

Asher in the meantime is broken hearted because the video of him and Kyle comes out while his life is going great and he’s playing football but when the video comes out he loses everything his family, his future, and his football career and he is then forced to get a little one bedroom apartment with the help of his brother And lives a very menial life. He is trying to reclaim his body and figure out his sexuality so becomes the biggest Manwhore in the world when his brother comes to him and states that he has a gambling debt that cannot be repaid because it is a substantial amount and the only way for him not to lose his life Is Asher go play football at the school And make them a winning team so of course he helps his brother. He goes to the school, and finally meets his tutor whom is Landon, after being in a very compromising position with two women in the library, and they are complicated. Friendship starts, but Asher realizes that he is attracted to Landon in a way that he’s never been attracted to someone before, secretly Landon is feeling the same way and is very confused. They eventually at the end of the book start being more than platonic friends and everything is going great they’re experimenting. Landon is figuring shit out, and Brislyn walks in and the book ends so onto the next.