A Game of Hearts

Title: A Game of Hearts

Author: Joanna Barker

Publisher: Joanna Barker

Genre: Regency, Historical Fiction, Romance

Source: Own

My Review:

A Game of Hearts is the first book I have read by Joanna Barker, and it won't be my last.  

I loved so many things about this book. I loved the cover. I loved that it is set around archery. I loved the Regency vibes.

At the beginning, I didn't like Marigold. I think it is because we see her through Tristan's perspective and he doesn't like her.

Read for:
🏹enemies to lovers

🏹known each other since childhood

🏹archery club

🏹forced marriage

🏹sweet love story

🏹character development/growth

🏹excellent banter

🏹swoon worthy hero

🏹alternating POV

This was a great story and left me wanting more. Not because it didn't have a solid ending, it did, I just was not ready for the story to end. I highly recommend it.

★★★★★/5

Synopsis (Goodreads): 

If you can't join them... beat them.

Marigold Cartwell has only one goal: to defeat her long-time rival on the archery field. She knows she can outshoot irritating, cynical Tristan Gates, but the local bowmen’s society—the one he belongs to—refuses to allow women to compete. Spurred on by their rejection, Marigold decides to start a new society. Naturally, it has only one rule: no men.

Tristan Gates is used to Marigold Cartwell always getting her way, so he is far from surprised when she forms her own society. He knows how relentless she can be, something he learned firsthand facing her at the targets. But Tristan has enough worries of his own, what with his bachelor uncle falling in love with a fortune hunter. He has no time to entertain Marigold’s ambitions.

However, after a visit to the seashore ends in disaster—and scandal—Marigold and Tristan soon realize how little they know about each other. The strained tension between them quickly turns to simmering attraction, but an important archery competition looms ahead. Lines are drawn all around them, with Marigold and Tristan on opposite sides, and neither can afford to lose. Yet winning might be the very thing to tear them apart.