The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Heart Bones
AUTHOR: Colleen Hoover
@colleenhoover
Publisher: Hoover Ink Inc #HooverInkInc
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: August 19, 2020
The Review
The Title/Cover Draw: This is one of the most beautiful book covers I have read this year. The way the orange and pinks pop made me want to pick this up immediately.
What I liked: This was my first time reading Colleen Hoover and I love her writing style. The story kept me reading, and I loved the way the characters made me care.
What I didn’t like: There wasn’t a lot I didn’t like. The only thing I can say I didn’t like (and why I gave it 4 Stars) is that sometimes it felt like I was always on the edge of understanding what the characters motivation was.
What kept me reading: It’s definitely the characters and how they were real, so complex. Beyah and Samson are truly damaged and you keep with them to watch how they will heal. You follow their journey through the summer almost as if it is your own story.
The Ending: Definitely satisfying.
Consider if you like reading: Contemporary young adult romances with deep character development.
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Small Summary:
Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim’s parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself.
With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.
Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.
She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. Which means they’re drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn’t realize is that a rip current is coming, and it’s about to drag her heart out to sea.
*****
All thoughts and opinions are my own.