A Pessimist's Guide to Love

Heartsong Duet, Book 2

By: Jennifer Hartmann

Narrated by: Gabriel Spires, Charlotte Claremont

Within the tangled roots of grief, we stand to lose so much. No one ever acknowledges what we stand to gain.

Strength. Perspective. Appreciation. Resilience. And sometimes, every once in a while, if you're truly lucky… There is love.

After an emotional cliffhanger, we finally get inside Cal's head and discover his secrets, along with more details of his tragic past that have been keeping him from Lucy.

A Pessimist's Guide to Love is the final installment in the Heartsong duet, ending in an HEA.

©2023 Jennifer Hartmann (P)2023 Podium Audio

Amazing!

Love loved loved the ending to this story, the growth and healing these characters went through to get their HEA was heavy, and while both healing from different things they were both healing from the same thing too! This was a beautifully well written friends to lovers, second chance small town romance ❤️ and JH’s spicy be spicing after all the edging she puts you through. Both narrators did an awesome job bringing these characters to life.

4.75⭐️

Absolutely loved this duet. Humorous, angsty and emotional and spicy. I love when a story can make you feel these emotions right in your chest. I also really loved the FMC.

Another work of art by Jennifer Hartmann 💔 ❤️

Book/story review: This is the second half of a beautiful story of tragic loss, second chances and the power of love to heal broken hearts. Jennifer is a true artists with her ability to weave a heartbreaking story that will have you shedding tears along with the characters. After the tears is always redemption in the form of love and a HEA.
I truly enjoyed this story. The character growth was perfection and progression of the storyline was immaculate.

Audio review- The overall narration was really good. The narrator’s did a great job bringing these characters to life. I was not a fan of Charlottes male voice and would have rather Gabriel narrate for Cal even when in Lucy’s POV, but it did not take away from the story. This audiobook is definitely one I would recommend, great job to everyone involved!

Loved.

This duet was absolutely beautiful. I loved every single word. So glad I made this purchase.

I just love Jennifer Hartman.

All of her books pull me in! I loved this one. The characters were great and I was so invested in their story

Omg this was good.

🚨Spoilers🚨

The first book was really good but left you with such a cliffhanger and so many unanswered questions.

The second book delivers all the heartache, all the truths, all the healing and all the love.
This is so good there was one point i thought omg i am going to cry ( which is pretty hard to achieve so i am very impressed with anything that moves me to tears. ADHD & 28yrs in healthcare, and more personal losses then anyone should deserve, it either needs to be on my period sadly, or have truly epic moment in order to make me cry) this Author and Narrators did SUCH an amazing job of showing ALL the emotions good and bad and laying everything bare. I was listening to it while driving and i thought i need to pull over just to feel all the feeling for these characters.

Cal and Lucy are just everything.. they are love, loss and healing all wrapped up in a messy package that slowly they both unpack all the messy bits and find a way. It’s so hard at times to watch them struggle so hard for all the wrong reasons and sometimes the right reasons. Lucy could be so manic and over the top with her anxiety but Cal knew just how to help. Cal was so sure that he would ruin anything he touched he couldn’t take a step forward unless she was there to guide and push him, sometimes in a good way sometimes in not so good ways but with good intentions. They both are each other’s key to breaking free from all their shared and personal demons.

This was such a heartbreaking yet also beautiful story of loss and love and redemption. I was soooooo‼️‼️ afraid the last 2hrs of the book that Lucy would die or Cal was in a freak accident.. i was just on the edge of my seat but i am so very happy with the ending that can warm my heart.

One sidenote, as being a healthcare professional, after all this fussing about Lucy‘s heart condition, the ending kind of confused me. A lot of people with major heart conditions have a really hard time bearing children because of the stress on the heart. So much fuss made over her heart condition that part made it a tiny bit unbelievable for me but still, I really enjoyed the story and I like the way it ended.

Great Narrators. Age appropriate, good strong sounding readers, poured out all the feeling properly! A++

Book 1 had implied spice but it grabbed your attention but book 2 brought all the good spicy times. I could have used a few less sex moments to be honest. The last little bit of the book i was like oh ok we are having amazing sex again ok.. then a tiny bit later oh amazing sex again. But it didn’t take away from the story so it’s all good. There was actually a really funny incident with her mom that made me laugh out loud.

This was a great read and i would suggest it to others.

Off to the next great 📖 book.

10/10

This duet was a rollercoaster of emotions. Mainly rage and happy tears along with sad ones. I really enjoyed it and I hope this author has more good books for me to try.

Despise the main characters

I have not connected with either main character, but particularly despise Cal. I made it about halfway through this book (to the karaoke bar bathroom scene) and am done. Done with this story, done with Cal being a selfish jerk, and done with Lucy apologizing for him.

Nope

I love this author but this book was toxic and gross. It very much romanticizes emotional abuse. The female narrators male voice was terrible.

The worst experience! Narrators are horrible

The first book are on the verge of being just ok. This one was even worse!
Cal was likable in the first book, but his self loathing in this one was frustrating and lasted to clearly the end of the book.
Very disappointed. I have liked all of JH books, until these two book.