review: heartless by elsie silver

Heartless is the second book of the Chestnut Springs Series by Elsie Silver, an interconnected stand-alone romance series that has blown up on all social media platforms. 

With an average 4.39 star rating on Goodreads.com of 163,255 ratings, we can safely say that this is a very loved novel. 

Cade Eaton is thirteen years older than his new live-in nanny, Willa Grant, and he is grumpier than ever. He’s a good ole’ country boy, a ranch hand, and a single father. She’s a young, hot, city girl, not to mention, she’s the nanny. Cade has every intention to keep his hands off of her, until she gets him into the hot tub for one game of truth or dare, all bets are off– and so are their clothes. 

He sees her falling for his little boy, like he’s her own, and that’s when Cade really falls. Will her contract end once summer is over, or is she stuck in Chestnut Springs forever? 

The Chestnut Springs series has been all over BookTok for ages, being the main series to lead the rest of us into the world of cowboy romances. Most of us had no clue we needed a cowboy in our lives until we started reading the story of Summer and Rhett in Flawless, book one of the series. 

Heartless just taught us that we needed not only a cowboy but an older single dad who happens to also be a cowboy. 

My biggest fear prior to starting Heartless was that it wouldn’t live up to the love I had for Flawless, the first book of the series. The way I read that book was unlike any other book I had ever read before, incessantly reading, never putting my kindle down, and wearing my cowboy boots everyday for the next week. 

But my love for Heartless was the same if not more. Elsie Silver is so talented in writing such loveable characters, and the way she wrote Cade’s son was unlike any child I’ve ever seen in any book before. Luke was such a complex character while still being a child that it was hard not to love him but it was even harder not to love watching the way he and Willa interacted. It was as if we were falling in love with the both of them at the same time Cade was. 

I was so excited to see more of Summer and Rhett’s relationship in little snippets during this story as well as other characters that are in this series! 

Overall I would say this was a ⅘ star and I cannot wait to read the rest of the series!