This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review. Also my tags may have spoilers in them so be forewarned before checking out full review.

Book Evaluation:
Plot: 🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️
World Building:🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎
Cover:📔📔📔📔📔
Hero: 🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻
Heroine:🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️
Intimacy Level: 🔥🔥🔥
Relationship Building: 💒💒💒💒💒
Heart & Feels:💞💞💞💞💞
Witty/Banter/Reaction of Laughter: 😂😂😂😂
Page Turner Level:📖📖📖📖📖
Narration:🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Ending:🧧🧧🧧🧧🧧
Overall View: ✨✨✨✨✨✨

but this girl ... even seeing her through a crowd, there was something about her that sang to me. It nearly stopped me in my tracks.

First Impressions
Thoughtful is the male POV of "Thoughtless" so if you have been curious about Kellan's view or if you are wanting to read this series then I would recommend reading Thoughtless and Thoughtful together if you can. I promise its so worth it. I adored getting Kellan's POV in the story and it fills in so many of the holes that you see within "Thoughtless" ....it gives so much more meaning and depth and layers that you need. Seeing Kellan's POV was magnificent and way better than Kiera's view if I am being honest. You get to see his depth, his heartache and loss, you get to see his friendships and also what really makes this hero truly tick.

First Line
I'd been playing the guitar since I was six.

"I'd give you everything, if you'd only take it."

Summary
Kellan Kyle is a man that was abused by his parents and has a hard time trusting others. Music is his only true solace in life. He is feeling empty with the countless one night stands that only make him feel worse and craves to find the "one" a woman who will see the man underneath the fame and the music. Who will see a man worth fighting for. What he didn't expect was to fall for his best friends' girl. To finally find someone whom he connects with on a deep level and gives him substance he has been craving, but their love is forbidden. He let it go too far and now he will have to make the most painful decision of his life ...

What I Loved
To see his POV in this one was so heartbreaking and he has become one of my top book boyfriends. There was something so heart wrenching in Kellan, something that just dug deep in a way that I didn't want to let go of in any way. I wanted so much for Kellan to find a HEA that he truly deserved. You see how much PTSD this man truly has from the abuse his parents gave him, why his friendship with Denny is so valuable and how this situation is the worst for him. You literally see it breaking him apart. I also found the events that unravel from his point of view so essential to the story of him and Kiera being together. Without his POV, you just get half a story and so many clues go unanswered so I am so happy that I read these books together. You also see his connection outside of Kiera, the essence of what music is for him and the ways he goes about sacrificing for Kiera and also the truth being the "cheating" aspects that are portrayed in Kiera's POV. I truly appreciated what the author did with this one as it added all the deep layers to make their story even more powerful.

She was my greatest pain, and my only salvation. She was the only one who could heal this hole in my heart, a hole she'd torn open. Being around her was incredible, but difficult too. Pain and pleasure twisted together so thoroughly that it was sometimes hard to separate the two.

What I Struggled With
The cheating aspects is going to push ppl the most in this story.

Narration
Wonderful!! I LOVED the narrator for his POV ....way more than I did Thoughtless. So if you love audiobooks I recommend it (Its just super long)

Overall View
Thoughtful was a captivating, heart wrenching love story that will take you through the depths of this journey with Kellan, Denny and Kiara.

There was only one thing I could think of that wouldn’t fade, break, or shatter. I could have her with me every second of every day. I could carry her, on my skin, seared into my flesh…permanently

Book Details (also in my shelves)
Sub Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult
Character Types: Rock Star/Musician, Bartender/Waitress, Tortured Hero
Themes: Heart/Emotionally Touching, Tear Jerker, Angsty, Cheating
Tropes: Love Triangle, Forbidden Love

Book Perspective
1st POV-Male Perspective

Relationship Conflict vs Plot Conflict
Relationship

If you like these authors, I recommend This Book
Samantha Young
Katy Evans
K. Bromberg

Song This Book Inspires
What I've Done by Linkin Park

Recommendation For Reading Order
Yes ---I recommend reading this order (and the author also recommends this order
Thoughtless/Thoughtful
Effortless/Painful
Reckless/Wonderful
Untamed (Griffin and Anna's Book)

Steam/Spice Explanations

Simmering cup of tea---soft warm touches and light intimacy
Warmin' by the fire- a medium level of sexual tension, a balance of sexual and emotional intimacy, lighter on the details in the sexual moments.
Steamin' up the room -the sexual content is more explicit in the language and tone, heavier amount of sexual scenes.
Blazing fire to the building-The prime focus is the sex scenes, scorching hot, and could burn one. Less focus on the emotional intimacy to the relationship.

Narrators:
Jeremy Arthur