In kindness to the author, I'm not going to keep going. I'm on page 67 and if I roll my eyes any harder, they might pop out of my head. If I keep going, I'm going to be unpleasant in my review, and I've decided to spare the author.

We'll call it my good deed of the month.

Nathaniel and Kate are brother and sister in a dysfunctional family with a weird home environment. Overnight he seems to develop the ability to use weapons with deadly precision, quick reflexes and glowing red eyes.
This book had a juvenile feel to it and read like it was written for a younger age group so I can see why it was touted as suitable for teens and YA’s. I struggled to stay interested in the characters and the storyline. I also had trouble working out what the significance of the strange eyes on the girl in his dreams.
A few of the dream scenes/hallucinations seemed to have a bit more depth to them. If the author develops more as a writer, future releases should improve and worth another look.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a free digital copy of this book in return for an honest review.

Nathaniel is a loser. Anything that he does or says, looks stupid and ridiculous. He doesn't have any friends. The girls that he thinks look nice, hate him. The only one he really has is his younger sister. She believes in him. Then he finds himself receiving a special gift. With this gift everything he days or does is amazing. He has friends, and girls like him. The only thing he needs to worry about is what this special gift will cost him.
3 Stars

Nathaniel has led a pretty unremarkable life; unlucky in friends, unlucky in love and just plain unlucky in life. Between being bullied in high school and being used in collage it seems he will never be truly happy. Until he’s offered the chance to attract the girl of his dreams. He jumps at the chance before realizing that the consequences could be dire. Is this blessing really a curse?

Rise of Hearts held so much promise and the story line had great intent. However the writing was rushed, the dialog forced and the characters were impossible to relate with. The point of the story seemed to drag on for ages and never quite got there for me.

The writing jumped all over the place and left me wondering what the author was trying to achieve. There were moments of awkward sexual encounters that border sexual assault as well as a unbelievable suicide attempts. The authors veiled attempt at writing a thriller story very widely missed the mark.

I was offered a digital copy of Rise of Hearts in exchange for a fair review. These opinions are my own and no way influenced by the author, publisher, or anyone affiliated with this book.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this book. It took a while to get into this story. It dragged on for quite a bit, although it turned out to be a very good read. A lot of it was just so unbelievable. Nate is so gullible and maybe a bit thick. Good story, good characters. Didn’t like the ending.

What a curious book. Dubbed as a horror, but heavily infiltrated by farcical humour with coming of age older teenagers. It is narrated by Nathanial, the older brother with no friends that just starts classes in college. He immediately makes friends with 2 very unusual girls and their provocative and cult like friends. Green beyond belief, he is exploited by those he meets through them, handing money over fists for the hope of some sexual encounters. He has the opposite of the Midas touch.

There is a supernatural element with the intermittent presence of a young girl with pink heart shaped irises that invades his dreams and sometimes wakefulness, citing ‘Nobody is going to love you like I do’. And life becomes a whole lot more complicated from this point forward as he encounters more and more dilemmas.

It has an indie feel to the writing, albeit I am not sure what this book is trying to be. It inhabits an altered reality. It doesn’t have a strong structure and the story jumps along via loose plot lines. It isn’t a very long a read, which allows you to see it through to its odd denouement. It’s a bit weird, wacky and off the wall. So if you like farce and can suspend reality it will work for you. Given the ending I suspect a second instalment is being lined up too.

This is a NetGalley book.
I had a hard time getting into this one. The start of the book was her slow and seem to drag for me. Nothing interesting was happening. Nathaniel is the main character. He has a sister, Kim and his mom. They all live in the same home. Nathaniel is in college and is extremely gullible. He falls for any sob story a pretty girl tells him. Any "friend" he thinks he has just wants to use or manipulate him. His younger sister protected him from his high school bullies! He is the most naively trusting person. He had one person who he really liked, Treah, and he's pretty sure she felt the same, but he was to shy to find out before she moved away. Nathaniel keeps seeing eyes with pink hearts, he thinks he might be loosing his mind. He thinks maybe those pink hearts stop bad things from happening, he might be going crazy!
I think this book was well written. The story and concept were original. The characters were all quite different.
I think Nate was a bit to gullible to be believable. I would have liked to known more about Treah, like what she is. I didn't like the ending.
This book has it's good points and bass, but worth the read in my opinion.

This book really does not deserve a review. Enough time was wasted with the reading of this book that it feels wrong to throw more time away now.

This book was so poorly written it was offensive. The plot was terrible, if you could even say it had a plot. The characters were paper thin and nothing made sense.

I feel like this book was written by a thirteen year old with no writing experience. Everything that happens is just thrown together with no thought to reality. The main character finds his mom dead in a strip club, then comes home and starts flirting with the stripper that is waiting there. Sounds plausible!

Please, please, please, do not waste your time with this mess. Anything else you find would have to be a better read.

Rise of the Hearts was a nice, enjoyable, somewhat scary book! It had a quite unique storyline with twists and turns. I enjoyed it!

I voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own

Nice quick, lightheartedness read. Something a bit different to my normal read which made it more interesting for me.