Stories & Sweeties: The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones {blog tour review + giveaway}

Friday, August 18, 2017

The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones {blog tour review + giveaway}

I'm so excited to be taking part in the Rockstar Book Tour for this entertaining & surprising book,

~THE HEARTS WE SOLD~

Today I'm sharing my thoughts on this book, and be sure to enter the tour-wide giveaway for three finished copies down below!

• ABOUT THE BOOK•

The Hearts We Sold

by Emily Lloyd-Jones

♦pubslisher: Little, Brown BYR

♦release date: August 8th, 2017

♦hardcover, 400 pages

♦intended audience: Young adult

♦stand-alone

♦source: from publisher for honest review

When Dee Moreno makes a deal with a demon—her heart in exchange for an escape from a disastrous home life—she finds the trade may have been more than she bargained for. And becoming “heartless” is only the beginning. What lies ahead is a nightmare far bigger, far more monstrous than anything she could have ever imagined.

With reality turned on its head, Dee has only a group of other deal-making teens to keep her grounded, including the charming but secretive James Lancer. And as something grows between them amid an otherworldy ordeal, Dee begins to wonder: Can she give someone her heart when it’s no longer hers to give?

•REVIEW•

The Hearts We Sold immediately drew me in to it's crazy world where Demons have revealed their presence on Earth and will happily offer up your wildest dreams in exchange for body parts. Dee's home life has hit a boiling point and she's suddenly finds herself at risk for losing her only escape: her boarding school education. In her desperation to find a way to pay for it, she seeks out a demon and is surprised to find he doesn't want an arm or a leg like other deals she's heard of, he wants her heart.

From the first time meeting the many characters in the "heartless" crew, I was curious to know more about each one, especially James, and the little flashbacks to their own deal-making day satisfied that. I love that James isn't immediately this heart-throb that she can't take her eyes off of---Dee actually thinks he's a homeless person when they first meet. And almost all of the characters take surprising turns throughout the story. They all have their little secrets and working for a demon will stretch them all their moral and emotional limits, bonding some of them closer together---and tearing some of them apart.

The story itself takes some interesting turns---one in particular that I thought was completely unexpected and really turns the whole story on it's head. And while the twist made sense, it opened up a whole other slew of questions, some that were answered and others that left me scratching my head. But despite that, it still proved to be an entertaining ride, a sometimes-heartfelt, sometimes-funny story about a girl learning that she doesn't always have to stand on her own, learning when to cut ties for the better, and learning to let herself love.

•ABOUT THE AUTHOR•

Emily Lloyd-Jones grew up on a vineyard in rural Oregon, where she played in evergreen forests and learned to fear sheep. After graduating from Western Oregon University with an English degree, she enrolled in the publishing program at Rosemont College just outside of Philadelphia. She currently resides in Northern California, working in a bookstore by day and writing by night.

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