Another book by Jennifer Hartmann that I loved! I don’t know how she writes all these amazing books. Definitely one of my favorite authors of all time. This book made me cry but by the end of the book I’m thanking the author for all those sad tears. Another winner of a book! Can’t wait to read more.

Thank you NetGalley and Bloom Books for the arc of this book.

⚠️Trigger warning⚠️ - Suicide & abuse (past)

Tropes:
❤️‍🩹 Love After Loss
☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine
💚 Mental Health Rep
💔 Broken Hero/Heroine
🕯Slow Burn

Like the other books I have read from Jennifer this tackles heavy topics and is not a light and fluffy read, it will tug on your heartstrings.

"All broken things can be fixed. The hard part is deciding that they're worth fixing."

Our main characters go on a journey of healing together, there are ups and downs and walls to be broken but above all, love.

Without giving too much away there was a small detail involving the bridge incident that I thought didn't need to be included as our FMC never finds out, but if our FMC was told this detail then it would also add to her grief.

The scene in the rain played out like a movie in my head which I loved but also FU Parker for leaving like that, there were a few moments when I wanted to shout at him for his behaviour/information he withheld.

I think the book would have worked just fine without the epilogue but she just had to stamp on our hearts one last time. I don't quite know how I feel about it as there could have been more explanation but it's definitely emotional.

This is a heartfelt story with moments of sunshine and a little twist in there too.

This book is a rollercoaster -- deeply heartfelt and meaningful (in typical JH fashion).

But BOY is it PAINFUL. There are some dark and deep themes that will dug at your heartstrings in all the right ways. I had no idea what to expect from this book and went in TOTALLY blind. I asked for the arc solely on the basis that it is a Jennifer Hartmann book and I was not disappointed. These characters are extremely relatable and this story is one that deserved to be told. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to read this edition of the book early!

My only qualm with this book is the plot twist. I was shocked by it (which takes a lot; I appreciate being shocked), but I think I would have appreciated it going in the direction we were being led the entire time.

However, I enjoy anything and everything Jennifer Hartmann writes and this one is certainly no different!

Thank you Bloom Books and Jennifer Hartmann for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Jennifer Hartmann wrote a beautiful book. This was an emotional book that made me feel so much. I enjoyed the deep exploration of grief. I read this in a literal night. I cried. I shouted and loved every single moments. You should preview triggers.

5 stars!

“All broken things can be fixed. The hard part is deciding that they’re worth fixing.”

I had my future all planned out.
A fairytale.

Then, on my five-year wedding anniversary, my dreams shatter. My husband is cruelly ripped away from me, leaving my broken heart behind.

But he leaves another heart behind, too…

His.

Drowning in grief, I reach out to his heart recipient, while seeking solace in a support group for fellow lost souls. Determined to find the bright, optimistic woman I used to be, I never expect what awaits me there.

Enter Parker.

Dark, brooding, emotionally detached. He’s the opposite of me in every way, yet I’m inexplicably drawn to him. As our bond deepens, so do the secrets that come to light, challenging everything I thought I knew about love and loss, and blurring the line between heartache and hope.

In a world where hearts break, I lost mine once.
Now, another heart holds the power to heal me…or destroy me.

This book!! Holy smokes! This book was emotional, raw, and angsty. The twist was so unexpected. Everything Jennifer Hartmann writes will hold a special place in my heart forever.

💔 A deeply emotional story of grief, healing, and unexpected second chances. 💔

In The Wrong Heart, Jennifer Hartmann weaves a poignant and heart-wrenching tale of loss and redemption. When Melody March’s happily ever after is cut short, she’s left with nothing but the broken pieces of her once-perfect life. With her beloved husband gone, all that remains is the heart he left behind—literally. His donated heart now beats in another man’s chest, a stranger who carries a piece of the man she lost.

Desperate to find meaning in her husband’s death, Melody sets out to meet his heart’s new host, hoping for a connection that might help ease the ache of her grief. Instead, she finds herself drawn toward Parker—dark, brooding, and wounded in his own way. He’s nothing like the bright and optimistic person she used to be, yet something about their shared darkness makes the possibility of healing feel real, maybe even hopeful.

But as past secrets and unexpected truths surface, Melody and Parker must decide if the love growing between them can survive the weight of what’s been lost—and what they stand to gain if they learn to trust again.

✨ Why You’ll Love It:
• Intense Emotional Depth: A raw exploration of grief, heartbreak, and the long road to healing.
• Intricate Character Connections: The intersection of two broken lives told with tenderness and honesty.
• Redemption & Hope: A reminder that even the deepest wounds can mend with compassion, courage, and love.

If you’re drawn to stories that tug at every heartstring and leave you breathless in their wake, The Wrong Heart is a must-read. This is a book that shows how life can go on after unimaginable loss—and how love can find you in the most unexpected places.

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This is my second Jennifer Hartmann book and she is quickly becoming a fav of mine. She writes such captivating and gritty romance, when I say this wowed me, I mean capital WOW with infinite exclamation points. I was enthralled! I read past my bedtime and couldn’t sleep because I just wanted to keep reading. This book challenged me and made me think without being challenging to read. I love the plot and the characters, the overall story was so beautifully written that I just could not put this down and when I had to I literally lost sleep wanting to pick it back up. it is a rare for a romance book to keep me this on the edge of my seat and include a few twists that truly shook me. Well done, 5 stars!

I really enjoyed this book. It kept me engaged and it only took a few days to read. I think this is going to be a good book club option for several clubs. I plan recommending to my book friends and I look forward to reading more by this author.

This book had so many really lovely and heartfelt moments. The writing was also incredible.

However, this quickly became repetitive, on top of the fact that it was incredibly depressing.

The twist and the epliogue infuriated me beyond belief.

4 star, 2 spice

<I>[He] strikes me as a broken soul, much like myself, only he’s broken in a different way. Longer, maybe. His pieces are scattered in the wind, some long gone. But broken is broken, and we cut ourselves the same.</I>

If you are looking for a book that will take you on a roller coaster of emotions, look no further.

Melody thinks she is just at the beginning of her forever with her husband when he is killed on their 5th year wedding anniversary. While suffocating in grief she anonymously reaches out to the man who received her husband’s heart.

Parker is a lost and broken soul. Because of a tragic childhood, he has no trust for women, and is extremely detached from his emotions.

These total opposites have a run in at a suicide prevention group… she used to be sunshine and he is all brooding and darkness.
Melody’s journey is all about her grief, and learning to live and love again. Parker’s is more about learning how to live for the first time.

<b>“What did it feel like?” […]
Then I hold my arm out as I follow his stare. My jagged scar is on full display, bathed in dusk.
“The knife?” […]
Parker’s eyebrows dip, but his gaze slides back up to mine.
“To love someone that much.”
</b>

Ah. I don’t want to say too much more. But the emotions? It is so raw.
The grief was portrayed so well I was tearing up literally in the first chapter and several more times later.
The discussions around suicide and when they start getting vulnerable with each other!! Ahhh.
[I do think she added that epilogue just for cause extra turmoil.}

One thing I did not like was the repetitiveness of Parker thinking ‘I don’t even like women’, and for how much we saw of Parker’s job I felt that Melody’s baking job may have been a little bit forgotten.

If you are looking for your next emotional contemporary romance, check this out!

<I>
“You and your smiles…”
“I know they’re growing on you.”
“Like fungus, maybe.”
“But the good kind of fungus.”
“No, like ringworm.” </i>




Trope some people are some are averse to, and triggers listed below






Trope Beware: Accidental Pregnant in last 10%
Triggers:
- Death of spouse (on page)
- Suicide
- Suicide Ideation & Attempt(s)
- Self Harm
- Child neglect and abuse (on page, character backstory)
- Grief/Mourning

I feel as if there should have been a trigger warning for this book. Even though the description hints at this being an emotional book, it doesn't give warning about the amount of times suicide is mentioned (also multiple attempts and success in people ending their lives). Sometimes I enjoy these kind of things, however, when it comes up unexpectedly it could be triggering for people.

Other than that, I enjoyed the story.

This book had me in a chokehold. The way Jennifer Hartmann writes such beautiful and emotional connections between her characters astounds me. This is a must read for sure.

Phew!! This book almost took me down. It was devastating and also full of hope. The mental health representation was pretty good. I really appreciated the different perspectives and the acknowledgment of needing outside help and support. The epilogues (yes! Two!) really did it for me. Absolute perfection for the wrapping up of this story and these characters!! Please make sure to check your trigger warnings because there are a lot.

"I'm Charlie's sun, and I'm Parker's moon.
I can be both.
I'm an eclipse."

I first read The Wrong Heart back in April 2022 and it has stuck with me since then. This is one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever read. I am so happy for Jennifer that it's being published so more people can experience the magic of this story. Melody and Parker's story is one that deserves to be shared with the world. It's one of the books that has made me the most emotional and I shed several tears while reading it. The ending was perfect.

-grumpy/sunshine
-trauma/healing
-second chance at love

GRAB TISSUES. YOU'LL NEED THEM!

Congratulations Jennifer, on an amazing accomplisment!

This book covers some very heavy and difficult topics, but I felt like the author handled it so well and wrote the characters with so much depth that helped contribute to this being such a well written story. The characters have both been through significant traumas so the story is very emotional but there is also a lot of beauty in reading their healing journey. Their happily ever after was hard earned and kept me hooked from beginning to end.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bloom Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Jennifer Hartmann is the queen at making romances that make you feel and shake your existence. The Wrong Heart is a novel with dual POV featuring Parker and Melody.

Melody has recently lost her husband due to an unfortunate incident during their anniversary celebration, which sets the tone for sadness. We meet Parker as he is waking up feeling ungrateful for still being alive. Their stories intersect as Melody writes an email to a stranger who has her husband’s heart and starts attending a suicide prevention meeting. Their interaction during those meetings starts to drive peace into the other’s life.

This story is so beautifully written that you won’t want it to end. It is so emotional and the characters are so complex that their story feels so realistic. The ending broke me and left me crying for a while but it’s so perfect.

Overall all emotions were felt in this novel and Jennifer Hartman wrote another great

Just wow. This book had all the feels! I really enjoyed reading The Wrong Heart by Jennifer Heartmann. The author captured my attention from the very beginning and I was engrossed in the story.

Bloom is releasing The Wrong Heart by Jennifer Hartmann on December 31, 2024 and this is not a story you want to miss. The perfect mix of sadness and hope, Melody and Parker are both lost in their pain trying to find a reason to keep fighting. To find their starting points. Melody is battling the grief of losing her husband and Parker is hiding from the world. When they finally catch a glimpse of each other, their lives are forever changed. Be prepared to cry and smile.

Ahhh. Jennifer Hartmann books always know how to bring the feels.

This book is so emotional, but so good.
I love Grumpy Parker. He is troubled, but finds his way and the journey is beautiful.

Melody is like the sun. But she is also broken after her husband dies. Her path to find herself is hard, but worth it.

Together their love is healing and I so enjoyed watching it unfold.

I am not sure there are adequate words for how much I loved this.
This is a romance, yes, and I'll get to that. But at its heart, this is a story about grief and how to re-claim love with LIFE, less love with a person. It's incredibly dark, angsty, touches on topics like suicide, rage, violence, abuse: if those topics aren't for you, this may not be the right person for this. But if those things are the depths you need in a good story...PLEASE pick this up.
Melody, a woman grieving the death of her husband in a freak accident, joins a suicide support group and meets Parker, a man with deep trauma tied to parental abuse. This follows their journey to find healing in dual POV. They are inexplicably drawn to each other despite everything on paper suggesting they don't belong together, and their healing journeys coupled with their chemistry is some of the strongest tension I've ever felt in a story. In a side plot, Melody is also emailing the man who received her husband's heart through organ donation, and the dichotomy of her feelings for these two men is done really beautifully. When these plot lines intersect, and they do pretty powerfully, its a whirlwind to the end of the book.
I think I have to mention: Parker is written SO well. He's messy and emotion-less and struggling and man...I don't know what research she did to write him so well, but he's one of the most layered male characters I've seen in a long time. Serious kudos.
When it comes to the romance: the spice is top notch and SO well done, the emotional back and forth is completely believable, the third act breakup and twist (and its a GOOD one, cause you are definitely red-herring-ed the whole way) is just brilliant, and then the way in which these two get their happy ending: chef's kiss.
I finished this in 12 hours and would have been less if I could keep my eyes open. It made me want to cry numerous times, which is probably the highest praise I could give a romance. 5/5, no notes, bravo.