This book was…wow. Totally unexpected.
How I decide whether a book is good is very simple. Once I finish a book I ask myself a question and my answer will usually tell me how much I liked it. The question I ask myself is: would I be willing to reread this book? Over the years, I’ve had a variety of responses. But not even halfway through this book I was already dying to reread this book.
I was a little concerned and skeptical about this book in the beginning. I’m not super into poetry…or slam poetry for that matter and I thought this book would just be a pair of overly sensitive emotional teenagers falling in love or something. So, I actually had this book in my possession for a while before I actually got around to reading it. But now that I’ve read it I wish I had read it sooner. Because it was that good.
I’m a big fan of Colleen Hoover’s writing. BIG FAN. It’s so simple and it’s not flowerly. It’s straight to the point and you don’t have to go running to the dictionary every 30 seconds to look up a word that no one in real life uses.
I loved the story it wasn’t one of those formulaic books where it was like: boy meets girl, they fall in love break up, get back together, happily ever after. It was unique and it kept me on my toes the whole time. And it’s addicting. This book is like a drug. At the start of every chapter I was like “I’ll go to bed after this one” and at the end of every chapter I was like “ERRMAHGERDDD JUST ONE MORE.” I’m not even kidding that’s what I did until I finished the book. IN ONE NIGHT.
This book definitely puts you on an emotional roller coaster. And just when you think you’ve heard the end of it, something else pops up. It never ends. By like the third chapter I was like HOLD UP
Surprisingly I wasn’t in love with Lake or anything. She wasn’t annoying or anything but she wasn’t anything particularly special either. I liked her a lot, she was funny sometimes but it’s not like she’s at the top of my list for favorite characters or anything.
BUT, OMG, Will?!?!
Oh heeeeey, Will Cooper:
Break me off a piece of that. I think Colleen Hoover writes really good troubled characters and that’s half the reason I like Will. My heartstrings were being pulled and I was an emotional wreck. How can anyone read this and not fall in love with him? You feel so bad for him and he puts everyone’s needs above his own and I’m just like:
I hated that Will and Lake could never be together. It was the most depressing thing ever. I kept reading, waiting for something to happen whenever they were in a scene together. And then throughout the book they would alternate pissing each other off and then as soon as they would make up I’d be like:
But pretty much ever since their first MEETING I was like:
I cannot wait til I get the next book. I have a list of books I need to read before I drop everything to go find the second book but GAHHHH I NEED THIS BOOK. I wish I could teleport over to the bookstore and buy it and teleport back to my bed so I could snuggle it forever and read.
Belle of the Bookstore 