Review~ Lonely Hearts Day

Lonely Hearts Day
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Published: February 10, 2026
It isn't that Scarlett Landry doesn't believe in love, her parents' relationship is perfect, after all. It's just that she doesn't think she should be forced to celebrate it. Forced to listen to terrible poetry and watch Valentine's Day roses being distributed to everyone around her at school. If there is a relationship status that deserves its own holiday, it's single-hood. So, she enlists the help of her best friend, Jack Bowman, to throw a…

This is a pretty quick read/listen that focuses on Valentine’s day over 4 years.

Scarlett is anti-Valentine’s Day. Not that she’s against love, she just thinks that singlehood needs to be celebrated as well. So she and her best friend Jake decide to throw a party on Valentine’s Day to celebrate singlehood. And it’s a hit. So they do it again.

Scarlett goes through a lot over these four years, a shake up in her family as well as in her relationship with Jack. She discovers feelings that she hopes he returns, but they end up fighting instead.

Everything is shown from Scarlett’s POV, and we only get the snippets around the party each year, but I think Jack was secretly in love with Scarlett all along, but her obsession on single-ness caused some problems and miscommunitications.

The ending is super sweet though, and I think it wraps up the story nicely.

The audio was narrated by Renee Dorian, and I feel like I’ve listened to some other books that she’s narrated before, but none were listed on her website, so I’m not sure. But I liked the narration.

Disclaimer: I received an ALC for review consideration through NetGalley, on behalf of the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.