Elsie SilverContemporary Romance · Romance
Heartless
Synopsis
Taking a job as a live-in nanny for the grumpiest single dad in Chestnut Springs should have been straightforward. Cade Eaton is thirteen years older than Willa Grant, barely speaks to her, and seems determined to keep his walls up.
But Cade — the broody eldest Eaton brother, devoted father to his young son, and the man holding the family ranch together — has a softer center than his gruff exterior suggests.
In the quiet moments between chores and bedtime, his hardened facade begins to slip, and the carefully maintained distance between employer and nanny turns into something far more dangerous. The second Chestnut Springs novel pairs a sassy, free-spirited heroine with a guarded older single father in an age-gap, forced-proximity romance steeped in small-town ranch life.
How it reads
Prose complexity 1/10
Content warnings (2)
TraumaSexual Content
- I know I’m in the minority but I enjoyed the first book more than this one. I loved Summer but I found Willa to be juvenile. I was frustrated with Willa and Cade’s lack of communication regarding their insecurities, and there was a lot of internal monologue which I found boring. In the first book, I looked forward to reading the texts between Summer and her dad and thought they were hilarious and sweet. In this book, half the texts between Willa and Cade revolved around her panty and whether she was or should be wearing one. I also liked reading about Summer and Rhett’s relationship development and felt their characters had more depth, whereas Willa was just a “hot, young redhead” and Cade was just hot. This was your typical hot nanny and nothing about this storyline set it apart from other nanny books. Luke was adorable, and I don’t typically like kids in books. I’m still very much looking forward to Sloane and Jasper’s story!
- I don’t really know where to begin, all i could say is that this book and the series it’s part of are overly hyped on booktok and everywhere else, i already read flawless and now this and i’d reach halfway through before stopping.. when a book is nicely written it makes me start imagining the characters and the events almost as soon as i read the first word but this one … this one was a heavy one … it’s too basic and kinda boring nothing makes you feel the giddiness of reading romance .. the single dad x nanny trope has been written by many and they all deliver it almost the same way so nothing too exciting .. plus chapters 19-23 are the worst of all … the way the author made the characters turn to oral sex in the middle of a “confession” was really bad and ruined the moment and the sexual description and the dialogue that happened between them was just ew …. Overall 3/10.
- Finally finished this thing. Honestly, no idea why I was hoping it’d be better than Rhett’s book, ‘cause the real issue is this author’s writing. She can’t write one chapter without sex showing up. Like, the characters are always either talking about it or thinking about it. There’s zero romance, zero cute moments — nada. And the worst? Every single character is like that, even the old dad. That’s what pissed me off the most while reading. Everything’s just about sex, full stop. Plus, Willa and Cade have the worst personalities — basically eternal teenagers or something. I legit hated every second of this story and swear I’m never touching another Elsie Silver book again.
- I read it like a month ago and honestly I don’t remember much except that I enjoyed it.
- Rounded up from 4.5
- 4.5/5