Inkmarks On Empty Dreams

“Hearts like hers” is the second book of the Seven Shores Series by Melissa Brayden, involving lesbians in love in Venice beach, featuring one of the amazing women from the breakfast group at Cat’s Pijamas ran by Autumn. If you have already read “Eyes like those” featuring Isabel and Taylor, you have already met the other amazing lesbian women living in Venice beach : Autumn, Gia and Hadley. Every other book includes one of this gorgeous women falling in love. In “Hearts like hers” the reader won’t find the Hollywood glamour from “Eyes like those”, as the main characters don’t really care about the acting world. They are peaceful, warm, caring, thoughtful and their worlds are totally different. “Hearts like hers” is about Autumn, the owner of Venice’s most wanted coffee shops :  Cat’s Pijamas. Autumn is a woman that knows what hard work means, since she started the coffee shop, she had no time for herself, not as if she desired. With her snob mom ever searching for me...

I choose to read “Heart of Glass” by Marian Snowe because of it’s title. At first, I thought it might be a metaphor for transparent feelings of a woman deeply hurt by her first love. It is a good analysis, but it is not complete. To my surprise, of course, it is more than that: “heart of glass” is indeed a heart of a woman with transparent feelings after a ruined relationship, who trusts to love again, but also a symbol for beach glass brought by the sea to the shore that can be seen along the beaches. Clara Duncan is the main character of this beautiful romance novel. She is torn to pieces after her breakup with her first love, Monica, was a woman totally her opposite: full of life, going to parades, parties and has lots of friends, while Clare was quiet, introspective and quite a loner. She and her first love used to work together at the same company and after it was found out they broke up, Clara felt somehow marginalized from the colleagues as they are closer to her former love an...