5 My favourite person EVER stars You know there are times in our lives where we want to feel secure and we need reliability, we want comfort and we want a future. Then there is the thirst quenching toe curling heart beating love and I'd say this book is how both kinds of worlds collide together... This is the kind of read where your heart clashes with your head and there is the summer salt of emotions where you question what they WANT and what they NEED. "I always thought you were mine," ~...

5 "One date, Elle.” STARS“This is our canvas. Let’s paint it how we want it.”I must admit I didn't plan on reading this book. I've only read one other book by this author and for me, while the writing style was good, the story was meh. I did plan on giving the author another try with her Darkness series but my Slut Sistas were doing a BR and I couldn't resist. I'm truly glad that I read this book!!I had so many feels for this story and immediately loved both Estelle and Oliver. This story...

4,5 Kaleidoscope Stars. Oliver and Elle fell in love when she was 16 and he was 19. But he had issues to deal with and Elle was his best-friend younger sister. So things didn’t quite work out. A few years later life brings them together again, while Elle is temporarily moving in with her brother after selling the house where she and her deceased boyfriend lived. This time Oliver is determined not to lose Elle again, and his willing to do anything to have her. But not only isn’t Elle sure if she...

I've read three great books by Claire Contreras, and this is by far my favorite. It's fresh, fun, heartfelt, angsty, steamy, and the hero is oh so delicious. I recommend it to all <3 Read it!! You won't regret it.And ... Oliver is MINE. MINE. MINE. MINE. <3

*****FIVE STARS*****{BR with my BEAUTIFUL Bestie} "Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything." OMG, I don't know how to even begin to express how much I fell in love with this story. When I started reading this yesterday, I was having serious doubts on whether I would end up liking this one. The first 35 to 40% had me in such a confused fog. It takes place in the present and I got that Elle and Oliver had a history but I wasn't connecting with them because I didn'...

***3 STARS***I'm not really going to review this one because it's pointless. The book didn't do anything for me and most likely I will forget all about it soon. It was typical and cliche. I will not be rushing to read book 2 or read it at all.I know a lot of people loved it and I can understand so...Maybe I will review it a little bit one day...

I’ve lost count of all the NA titles that I have read since I decided to be a book reviewer. But I can tell you that’s A LOT. I’m saying this because I think I have that as a reason to question every book that I will read with ‘OKAY, WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT YOU? WHAT MAKES YOU SPECIAL FROM ALL THE BOOKS I HAVE READ BEFORE?’So yeah, I asked that too while I was reading Kaleidoscope Hearts. And sadly, it didn’t give me enough answers to rate it higher than 2 stars. I’m not saying this is a horrible bo...

Estella's been through a rough time lately but she's starting to get her life in order. And wouldn't you know it? Her heart breaker from the past is mixing things up again. Oliver is Estella's brother's best friend but they all grew up together. The problem is Oliver and Estella (Elle) are extremely attracted to each other but her brother has sworn all his friends off Elle. Naturally, they have some history. We get the past stories from Oliver's POV and the present from Elle's. I loved getting b...

5 "I Want Everything" Stars!(BR with Sharon) Estelle Reuben aka Elle/Chicken is a 25 year old woman living in Santa Barbara, trying to piece her life back together after a tragedy rocked her world a year ago. She is very close with her family, and leans on them for support. She is in the process of moving in with her brother Vic until she gets back on her feet. Elle owns an art gallery/studio called Paint it Back. She makes and sells sculptures with broken glass called Kaleidoscope he...

4.5 stars! "...all beautiful things are a little broken." My first Claire Contreras and it's a winner!But before I talk about what made this book for me, can I just say something about the cover? I love LOVE the cover! It captures the tone of the book perfectly. It's sweet, whimsical without being cheesy. I simply adored this cover.Now that's out of the way, I got say that I loved this book. It wasn't perfect and I have issues with the way certain characters handled things but it really worked...

3.75 **chicken & bean** STARS “Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything.” Kaleidoscope Hearts was my very first Claire Contreras read and most definitely not the last. All my friends seem to love this series and I'm not sure what took me so long. This is a second chance romance story, and we all know they are my thing. Period. My go to romance trope. So, naturally I was quite taken with the premise of Kaleidoscope Hearts. Spoiler alert. I loved it in the end,...

★★★★ 3.5 Stars ★★★★Now LIVE! UK - http://amzn.to/1yHXzEN US - http://amzn.to/1umhtQ4This was a sweet second chance romance about loss and healing and rediscovering the joy that life can bring you. Told in dual POV with some flashbacks into the past it was a really nice story that kept me turning the pages.Estelle is suffering from the loss of her fiancé when she finally decides to sell their shared home and move in with her brother Vic whilst waiting to decide on the next phase in her life. Oliv...

4.5 Stars Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything. This beautifully written and emotional book is everything that I love about second chance romance. Everything. I'm not sure where I've been that I'm only discovering this fantastic author and this series now, but boy am I glad that it's finally on my radar. Everything about this book worked for me; the writing, the secondary characters, the story, the romance, and most especially the H/h. Simply put, I adore...

♥ ♥ ♥ 4.5 STARS ♥ ♥ ♥ ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●"Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything."●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● Oh, this book! It had me from the start. You know what a sucker I am for a good second chance at romance story, and this one did not disappoint me in the least.Elle and Oliver have known each other since they were kids. Oliver is best friends with Elle's brother, so they are all pretty close. But one...

3.5 stars This was a book I was super excited to read and in the end, I just kind of liked it. Claire Contreras is a very talented author, she wrote one of my favorite new adult books titled There is No Light in Darkness, and that book had all of the feels I love to see in a book. Plus it had Cole. If you've read that book, you understand.So going into this: Kaleidoscope Hearts is the story of Estelle and Oliver. Oliver is Estelle's brothers best friend, therefore Estelle is supposed to

Oh this story and the feels! This book came highly recommended from my book-mate and I love brother’s best friend books, so I wanted to read it asap. With these type of books they are usually pretty easy going and I love that about them, but this one definitely brought the feels. For a book with limited angst there was just something about it that had me feeling everything. This is my first book by Claire Contreras, but it will definitely not be my last. "Life is short, and brutal, and painful...

Once upon a time there was a little girl that was afraid of the dark who grew up and fell in love with a boy that wasn’t supposed to love her back. And this little girl, when she grew up she learned the hardest lesson about love... the lesson of how much it hurts when your heart breaks.Well that little girl grew up to not only suffer the broken heart of her first love, but a new sort of pain that fractured her already broken heart just a little bit more. Elle is making her attempts at moving on,...

3 stars Compared to other books I've been reading lately I really like CCs writing style. I found Oliver soooo sweet but towards the end it was a tad cheesy for my liking. Now Estelle I found a bit bitchy but I think considering the circumstances it didn't bug me muchThere was a good amount of feels and I enjoyed it at first but after a while it went round in circles. I will recommend if you like:Brothers best friendSexual tensionSecond chance romanceHot guy in scrubsSweet romanceARC provided...

5 stars! Kaleidoscope Hearts had three things going for it from the very beginning... First, it’s a second chance romance. Second, it’s a brother’s best friend book. I am a sucker for those. And third, it’s written by Claire Contreras. Claire is one of those authors for me who never disappoints. Her writing is top notch. I feel like this book is different from her others, but that’s not a bad thing. It’s not just a love story. It’s a story of healing, moving on and learning it’s okay to let g...

2.5 starsI'm going to keep this short. I don't truly think Oliver loves Estelle. Because if you honestly love someone, you don't treat them the way Oliver treated her throughout the years. Even in the present day with all of his protestations of wanting to be with her, Oliver never treated her like she was special. It just served to piss me off. As for Estelle, she was the biggest doormat I may have ever read. After the way he treated her in the past, if I was her I would have never given him an...