The Lightning-Struck Heart

I absolutely loved this book! Every page had me laughing so hard my roommate thought I had gone insane. Cannot wait to read more of this series.

Easily 5/5 10/10 and at least 99/100 I mean, how could you not love Gary the hornless gay unicorn? The most prettiest and most sassiest unicorn ever? Who sweats angry glitter?!
I guess reviews are supposed to tell you something about the book…. Well… It’s fantastic!

(If you like it too then I recommend “Chocolate Cupcakes and Mythical Creatures” not quite as good but really sweet and funny)

If I could I would give this 10 of 10 Stars ~ One of the best books of my life .
Ahh, it's good to be back in the zany world of the ever fabulous TJ Klune. I wasn't two pages into 'The Lightning Struck Heart' when in the back of my head I could hear \"Have fun storming the castle, boys.\" If you didn't get the reference then this author’s humor might fall flat with you. But since I seriously doubt that anyone has ever missed The Princess Bride, you're in good shape to get this book, immediately, and read it. It's totally worth it. From one nerdy, geeky person to another, that is.
“Flora Bora Slam,” he (Sam) said again, rolling his eyes. “Well, I’m all out of ideas.”
He (Morgan) looked incredulous. “That was your idea?”
“Yes. It might have gone better in my head.”
“I have a feeling that sums up your life perfectly.”
Sam, his best friends—Gary, the entirely fabulous hornless gay unicorn, Tiggy, the half giant—and Morgan of Shadows, the asexual King's Wizard, are absolutely every single thing I dreamed them to be. Truly. Their story is epic beyond belief, filled with sarcasm, laughter, outrageous adventures, heroic rescues, not so heroic captures, and everything you could ever dream of in a fantasy. And, true to this author, there's loneliness, regret, sadness, hope, and love.
Sam has to be the smartest, most unaware person I've ever met. He's madly hooked on Ryan, the Knight Commander, but has zero, and I mean zero, clue that Ryan is just as hooked on him. I can't really blame him. Sam's not high on self-esteem and the king just announced that Prince Justin and Ryan are to be wed. And Sam is just the wizard's apprentice who one day will be King Justin's Wizard. Ugh.
Even with two terrific best friends, an incredible mentor, and loving parents, Sam is still very lonely. Oh, he plays it off well, but he has a secret, a really big one that he can't share with anyone. Only Morgan knows since Sam is his apprentice. And this secret is a weight around Sam's heart, because if he's not careful the secret could be really good, or very, very bad. And so, sometimes Sam feels so different from everyone around him, and he hides that loneliness behind words. Sam is sad, often, because part of his secret will never be allowed to come true.
“I worry about you, sometimes,” he admitted.
“Why?”
“Because you’ve built up this shell around yourself. This exterior made up of sass and wordplay. You wear your heart on your sleeve, but you’ve disguised it so that only those that are close to you can ever hope of seeing it. You show so much without actually showing anything at all.”
It's impossible to describe how amazing this book is. It's probably one of the best books I've ever read, and considering the quantity I have devoured to date, that is truly saying something. I know, for a fact, that this review doesn't do TJ Klune or 'The Lightning-Struck Heart' justice. Sorry, TJ, I was really verklempt.

Another great book by TJ! If you have read anything by him in the past you will need no further explanation you will love it! For those of you living under a rock it's time to come out this is a great place to start reading! This book is filled with lots and lots of laughs beware when reading in public for you may start laughing like a banshee and people will stare. This book has it all lot last bit of angst a gay hornless unicorn named Gary of course that will steal every scene he is in and two clueles main characters who you will just want to shove together by the end. Love love love here's to hoping there's a second one!
This book is not people who are stuck in the mud by the way their fantasy needs to be written. Goi in with an open mind and you'll love it!

The Lightning-Struck Heart rubbed me the wrong way at first. An ostensibly high fantasy novel, but written with many modern colloquialisms (like you'd hear from a 30-something gay man and/or drag queen at the bar), and Klune's characters are pretty typical for his novels: Highly sarcastic, oblivious to the point of frustration, nearly 4th wall breaking. Occasionally I had to re-read dialogue tags to figure out which character was speaking because a lot of them tended to be somewhat similar in speech and personality.
And yet, I don't think I've laughed as hard at a fantasy novel in a very long time. While not the same sort of humor as say, Terry Pratchet, I think Klune breathes a breath of fresh air into the fantasy genre, and still hands us an entertaining romance. Not as good as his other series--frankly I'm hard on this book in my description *because* I've seen him deliver some amazing and outstanding pieces of work--but once you let go of your presuppositions about how fantasy \"should\" be, you're in for a pretty great ride.
He sets it up for an obvious sequel at the end, so we'll see if he delivers on that. Perhaps lightning can strike my heart twice?