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Thanks to @avonbooks for sending me an advance copy of one of my most anticipated reads of the year: Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean, out August 23rd! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I don’t think I’ve ever checked NetGalley as often as I did in the months leading up to Hearbreaker’s release. I read through MacLean’s extensive backlist during a grueling recovery from surgery earlier this year, and she has quickly become a favorite author. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When I reread Bombshell, the first book in the Hell’s Belles series, it was angstier than I remembered, and MacLean took that angst and dialed it up to eleven in Heartbreaker! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Adelaide and Henry are SO swoon worthy!!! I love animosity in a romance, but there’s something incredibly lovely about seeing these characters so gone for each other and spending time together. I really loved it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What to know: -spy ring -rivals to lovers -feisty thief meets starchy Duke -only one bed “There’s a shocking lack of beds in this country.” 🤣 -I love you but we can’t be together ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I love that we got to see more of Hell’s Belles and how their network runs in book two, and I love that MacLean is continuing to lay the groundwork for Tommy and Imogen in book three! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ CW: child abuse, grief, sexual content ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID: On a white shelf sits a physical copy of Bombshell, and a kindle displaying the ebook cover of Heartbreaker sits to the left of it. There’s a wood floor beneath. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CgwpowNLRPY/